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Super Magbot
Developer Astral Pixel
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way. From the Steam store page
192 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
81
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153 positive · 36 negative
95% range 75–86%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
357 of 425 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 192 · most liked firstMy Playtime: 27.6h (100% achievement, finished the game) Grindy Achievement(s): No. Optional Achievement(s): Yes (28 achievements). Difficult Achievement(s): Yes (3+ achievements, the game is hard, but assist mode is available). Intro Just like what the store page said, Super Magbot is a precision platformer game where you can't jump. It tries to simulate the jumping mechanic with the use of magnets: positives repel positives, and positives attract negatives. With this ability, you basically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am happy to finish the game without smashing my controller.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember games like Super Meat Boy? Those fancy games with simple yet reliable game mechanic that immerse you into great gameplay, this is Super Magbot. You can't jump. Your only weapon are magnets which you utilize to push or pull yourself across the platforms. It's one of those easy to play but hard to master type of games. Story is simple and easy to swallow. Visual side while pixelated holds a really nice art style. Music and sounds are good. Strong recommendation.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Magbot is a fiendishly difficult game that builds upon its simple premise with layers upon layers of new variables to manage and timings to master. It relies on your becoming flustered and messing up, rather than making the levels all that difficult. It never asks you to do anything more than time your button presses and use the correct magnet, but that never stops it from breaking you. It's a delight, but it's also not going to be for anyone who's not interested in taking a break every…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great platformer without a jump button. All of your 'jumps' are repels with magnets (red / blue). Good level design, great OST and all around a lovely game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A precision platformer where the difficulty is in overcoming the controls. Yes, its one of those kinds of precision platformers, where every level is a little slippery and basic function have a startup delay. Most of the times I succeeded, it felt like I did so despite the controls. If you enjoy that kind of challenge its worth taking a look, but its a hard miss for me, unfortunately.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕟, 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕓𝕠𝕥! 𝕃𝕖𝕥'𝕤 𝕤𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 Be warned, first and foremost, that this game will test your sanity and mettle unlike any other platformer game. It's a clever twist on the classic 2D platformer formula, minus the jumping. That's the gist of it, really, your protagonist cannot jump, but has to use a laser beam to latch unto walls and make it out of a level with his ONE-TOUCH death trifling ass... ahem, behind! The pixel-art, of course, is a focal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's smart, but having to either attract or repel, and two different buttons does need a specific part of the brain to work that I believe doesn't function for me lol. It unfortunately then becomes more frustrating than fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To avoid seeming completely petty in this review, let me first start by saying that Super Magbot is a decently made game that boasts terrific pixel art and sound design. However, I do not recommend the buying Super Magbot unless you can purchase it for $2-3 USD max. The game has an interesting gimmick but that gimmick isn't enough to support an entire game. Before purchasing Super Magbot, I had played through another 'precision platformer' game called Celeste and I can't help but shake the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brutal deflection/attraction-based puzzle platforming that demands more than most masocore offerings A friend passed this key to me, as pretty as you please -- as casually as if he were handing me a bag of peanuts. And it looks so cute and friendly, like something you'd peanut-pass. But oh, how looks can deceive! For sure, I loved the game, working my way through all 145 levels -- I dug it like a tweaker digs his crack till my forefingers ached from it. I was starting to get worried about…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think you'll either love this or get frustrated and want to quit. I unfortunately am in the latter. Interesting mechanic for platformer, and fun when you are executing to perfection, but not for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is good, I'm just bad at it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 not the type of game you want input lag and rev up time before magnets work
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game recommended by steam, I tried the demo and loved it. Then I bought the full game, and loved it as well. I was already quite satisfied with the initial magnet mechanics, which feel very rewarding when you manage to remember which polarity you need to use at each obstacle. The best part is that when you use the wrong one, you get flung in the opposite direction as if the game was personally telling you that you messed up. With vibrant art and soundtrack that keeps you wanting to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is currently in the Humble Choice for December 2022, this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before January 3th, 2023, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle. Magnetized platforming. Super Magbot starts with the player trying to stop a large asteroid on a collision course with multiple planets. Players control a robot that has the power to attract or repel with two different magnets. It’s a simple setup but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed the first of the 4 worlds, then they decided to make the second world almost 30 unskippable ice levels where the formerly tight controls turn to ♥♥♥♥ as you slide all over the place. I'm sure worlds 3 and 4 will be enjoyable again, but this game is no way good enough to justify the frustration I'd have to endure to get there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played through the entirety of Celeste using a controller and never had drifting issues. I now tried this for about half an hour and had to stop playing the game because the character just kept going in a certain direction even after I stopped moving the stick. If you add the option to change the dead zone on controllers instead of the dumb implementation of sensitivity for controllers that doesn't make any sense I will give it another try.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THIS GAME IS SO GOOD HOW IS IT NOT GETTING TALKED ABOUT MORE. THE PLATFORMING IS SO NEW AND FRESH, AND THE GAMEPLAY IS SO POLISHED. IT IS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disclaimer: My scores/reviews are almost always based on having bought the game at close to the "lowest historical price" on steam at time of purchase. Quick score: 5/5 Notes: Takes a bit to wrap your brain around the pulling/pushing mechanic and keeping track of what you need to do in real time, but once you get the hang of it, it's not bad. Overall super solid platformer, great music, great visuals, solid level design, good difficulty curve. Also has leaderboards which is a nice bonus for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In this game you have 2 actions: attract and repel. But instead of i dunno having one button to attract and one to repel, which you know would MAKE SENSE. there is a button that attracts red and repels blue and one that attracts blue and repels red. that might not sound that bad. But when you are mid air it's just an extra headache to think of what is now the right button for the right action. It feels like the controls change all the time for no reason.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a cool platformer with a unique twist ! the story is very much secondary , and that shows but the visuals are cheery and the mechanics are well designed if you are interested in a somewhat challenging platformer with no jumping , this might be for you i maybe would wait for a sale , but you do you the final boss is a bit underwhelming , but there is still content after it so it isn't that big of a letdown
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Certainly well made, good graphics and music, well polished. Unfortunately the design of the game feels at odds with itself - the game clearly wants you to go fast, but the level design doesn't allow for on-the-fly plays - later levels will require Red and Blue jumps in a specific order, spaced out to an extent where it's very difficult to understand what buttons you need to press without stopping and analyzing the screen, which slows down the game. It is, I suppose, the thinking man's Celeste
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is just plain boring to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know what the appeal is. It just hurts my fingers and stresses me out. It's a puzzle on a time limit? No thanks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just played 20 minutes of this, it's really cool. You don't have a jump button so the bumpers control what type of surface you can jump off. Red bumper attracts to blue walls, and repels off red walls. The game is tightly designed, and once I enabled Steam Input's deadzone, felt real nice. It's definitely inspired by Super Meat Boy in terms of level and world design. I'd say check it out!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AMAZING game. If you like Celeste or other precision platformers, you'll enjoy this game. Really good level progression, really crisp mechanics- very original take on the platformer genre. Watching this game really doesn't do it justice. When you try it for the first time, it feels like your brain is breaking. It's really unlike any other platformer. Huge sense of accomplishment when you get the star fragments too. 10/10 highly recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good but bad final boss
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game! I recommend it if you like Super Meat Boy or Sunblaze. The game has a unique difficulty: remembering which of your beams will repel and attract you at any given point. It's like a tongue twister but for your brain. + Charming art + Slapping music - Awkward script - Final boss is the worst part of the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An extremely unique platformer with no jump button. The magnet mechanics take a while to get your head round but once it clicks it's extremely satisfying. Worth playing for it's uniqueness alone if you're a fan of the genre! Check out https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41559946 for more recommendations!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall Score: 10/10 Unique platformer where you use magnets to attract and repel yourself onto and away from a variety of platforms and walls. Game is fantastic. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but it's more than I was expecting. If you play on controller it might be a small bit more awkward, but still manageable. For sure worth the price ^^
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this precision platformer to be fun, even if i constantly forgot the difference between red and blue. biggest gripe was the last level/boss being a time sink. most levels are only 10-20 seconds. the last boss takes 3 minutes and if you blue when you should have red you have to start all over. unless you turn on level checkpoints
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sure the delay before the colour shots activate plays an important role in balancing the game later. It made me get fed up with the game in the first dozen of levels. YMMV, I don't see myself picking this one up again - "fast-paced precision platforming" and "weird intentional input delays" aren't a good mix in my book. I honestly don't see the need for the delay, the shots are already limited to two per colour and if there's a need for them to be paced some time apart, why can't it just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Magbot is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This badly done console (Switch) port is a precision puzzle platformer from Team 17, who really should know better to be pushing pixel shovelware. How the mighty have fallen. Anyway. This precision platformer has you controlling a magnetic robot, as the name implies. There's a focus on difficulty, precision, and time trialling…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game! Never thought I could have so much fun. Tip 1: If you have trouble with the keyboard then play with a gamepad. Tip 2: You do not need to hold an arrow key while in the air. I was in a spin for the first a few levels, too many things to do at the same time: move my character(left hand), spin the stick (right hand), thinking should I use blue or red magnet, which hand holds blue or red magnet, when to jump, control my landing...Especially Super Magbot is a fast game, though I can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Magbot is a 2D Precision Platformer about a robot named Super Magbot where its galaxy faces a threat of a giant asteroid destroying all planets in its path and its mission is to help restore balance. The game offers 4 big zones of heavy precision platforming stages, each will test your quick thinking and timing abilities. The game uses a magnet color system of blue and red, where you have to go through each stage while traversing the traps with magnet pulls or pushes, the cursor…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea for this game is great, it's the reason i bought it. But with this type of gameplay it doesn't really feel like a platformer. When I die it's because i pressed the wrong button not because i mis-calculated or mis-timed a jump. It sort of plays more like a rhythm game than a platformer. After 5 hours of playing the controls still don't click with me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Magbot is one of the finest platformers I've played going all the way back to my introduction to the genre with Super Mario Bros. at five years old. There's no jumping. You aim your magnet with your right thumb, to propel or repel, and control Magbot's movement with your left. Twin stick platformer is an apt description. You get two red charges and two blues charges that are only recharged after landing on the ground. These limited charges add an element of problem solving to a game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Magbot's a decent precision platformer that seems to have flown completely under the radar? With Magbot being unable to jump, this game plays in a completely differnet way compared to most other platformers, with aiming your mouse taking the place of the spacebar as your primary means of navigating your environment. Magbot's main tool is his magnetic power that allows him to attract himself to or repel himself from different magnetic blocks, which grow in variety as you play through the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is great, tough as nails, but great. If you struggle with fast precision platforming, or difficult controls this game is probably not for you. The soundtrack is great and the world gimicks are very fun. The story isn't much but it's definitely more about the gameplay. The pixel art looks great and the character designs are full of life. I highly reccomend this game to those looking for a challenge.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another "wish we had a neutral review" games. The game is competent and there are fun levels (quite a few of them), but as you continue in the game it more and more isn't about finding the right strategies and pressing the right buttons, but at angling the directional thing just right + WAY too much controlled falling (that not even Celeste managed right all the time). Like you can have a difference of like 1-3 degrees and you'll fail. There are assist options, but they get an absolute…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game will break your brain with just two buttons
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably one of the most imaginative platformers I have ever played. The lack of a jump button takes some getting used to, but I love the fact that you can play it with just your mouse and keyboard. However, nothing is more frustrating than mixing up which mouse button does what in the heat of a good string of jumps. Nevertheless, the music reminds me of old Gameboy Color games, which I love.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this game and it was a good level of challenge and reward. All apart from the last boss fight, which is complete BS
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm halfway through the game, but I can already say the time I spent *not* playing it, I spent missing out big time. It's an incredibly polished platformer with a twist where instead of jumping you have two magnets that you can use to either attract to certain objects or get repelled from them. This simple concept gets explored throughout the game, and the level design, clean graphics, and fun music all create a thoroughly joyful experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright, so the negative reviews about the controls being frustrating or flat out bad are pretty much spot on. The aiming of Magbot's beam is incredibly frustrating for whatever reason, but the mechanics of the game are really well done. I completed the entire first world and while it wasn't incredibly difficult, I did fight the controls quite a bit. I'm still going to push through and eventually finish all the other levels because I am enjoying the soundtrack, level design and overall look of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Morlan's shorts: This is for making me wait 1+ hour in total, because the freeking game starts in some weird exclusive fullscreen mode and my firewall always wants manual confirmation (by choice) for anything that runs, and.. guess what.. the freeking game wouldn't allow messages to popup and got locked in some kind of black screen vicious circle. I couldn't even Alt-TAB or even CTRL+ALT+DEL out of it..Why oh WHY THE F.. do you start the game in weird exclusive mouse-lock fullscreen? I really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is honestly a first-impressions, given the time logged in the time of this review, but Super Magbot isn't exactly a complicated game with many surprises up its sleeve; it makes clear what it is about from the first second. For what it is, it's fine. As noted, it's a platformer without a jump button; instead, you use magnets to move around. Same color means repel, opposite color means attract; you use these forces to launch yourself to different platforms. The game is structured in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generic platformer. Nothing special.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Super Meat Boy, but worse. And less "gory". I would actually recommend it. If it were like 5 bucks. But it's almost 20. 20! Why? It has 4 worlds and 4 bosses. All in all you can get through the game rather quickly. I've finished world 1. I just don't have much desire to finish the rest, since the controls are ... difficult to get used to, let's say it like that. Not only do you have to factor in trajectory, which is determined with the left stick (aiming is difficult...), but also that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have known about this game since it was displayed on local conventions. The mechanic it's awesome and the levels are professionally crafted. The outcome is an outsanding game that you should play if you enjoy difficult yet rewarding experiences.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It might seem crazy to say it like this, but i think this might be one of favorite platformers of all time. I deeply love the mechanics in this game, it think they were the perfect balance of precise and yet forgiving. You mostly need to know the sequence of what to, rather than needing pixel perfect precision. The level design is really where this is brought home because every screen feels like a gem or like its teaching you something. Just about every level hit, and i had a great time fully…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has color blind mode! If you are red-blue color blind you can still play this game! The platforming is pretty fun and challenging at the same time. The difficulty curve is very good up until the final world where it becomes a lot more challenging. If you find the game too difficult there is an assist mode that has some options to make the game easier. I play with mouse and keyboard but I would suggest get a controller.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A surprisingly good 2d platformer with great mechanics, level design, and soundtrack. The only hard part is learning how to press the correct button.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is great, but the execution ends up being painfully frustrating to play. Most of my deaths seemed to be from pushing the wrong button rather than messing up timing. What's the point of having a red and a blue magnet? It just makes things confusing. It should be a button for pull and a button for repel instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for providing all those accessibility options! Without them, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy such a challenging game. More developers should be like you, guys! This is a very fun puzzle platformer. I’m not crazy enough to go after 100%, but it’s very enjoyable nonetheless. A bit on the trial-and-error side, but aren’t all great puzzle platformers like that at the end of the day? EDIT: After beating the final boss (150+ tries), I’ve changed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a solid enough platformer with some hiccups that keep it from greatness. The game itself is one of those platformers without jumping. The whole game is just attracting or repelling based on the colors. It works well enough and starts off with good and fair difficulty. The main problems are in the mechanics. The game is so much trial and error, and not like a normal platformer where you make mistakes on jumping or avoiding obstacles. This is all about trying to remember which color is which…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →reminds me of a classic old arcade game. good but i dont have good reflexes for this game lol.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never left a review before but after seeing the lack of reviews on this great game I thought I should. I was really impressed by the music and the art was pleasing but for me the unique controls and clever level design made this a top tier platformer. Comparing the snappy movement in this game felt similar to Super Meat Boy and Celeste, while having its own unique feel to it and yet still captures the flow you get from those games. I read another review which suggested the controls are the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, I'm just too stupid for it. I already don't know how magnets work, but now I constantly foget what magnets do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8/10. Unique skill/precision based platformer with a decent amount of content.
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