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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“What starts out like Portal gradually descends into cosmic horror. It may not be a polished masterpiece, but it's anything but ordinary.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a solid Portal-inspired puzzle game built around magnetism mechanics that genuinely surprised me with how creative some of the puzzle designs are, especially in the first act where the clean, well-structured chambers let the core concept shine. Newton,…”
— a player, Steam review · 37 hrs played“Can't recommend, it could be a decent game, bur: - The game loop tries to do what portal does but not as charming and engaging - The puzzles are decent though, but it frustrates me that they mixed up how magnetism works, it is the opposite polarities that attract, not the other…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Lovecraftian · Adventure · Action · Cyberpunk · Indie · First-Person · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · FPS · Horror · Platformer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Japanese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://frogwares.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: WINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8 Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: 256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 3.0 COMPATIBLE NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800/ATI RADEON HD 4800 DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 4 GB HD space Sound: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE