Magrunner: Dark Pulse similar games & best alternatives

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Magrunner: Dark Pulse

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2013

Should you play it?

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 works

  • Challenging and original magnetic puzzles
  • Immersive lovecraftian sci-fi atmosphere
  • Good graphics and sound design
  • Solid single-player puzzle platformer
  • Reasonable game length and value

Things to keep in mind

  • Weak and confusing story
  • Frustrating platforming sections late game
  • Some unintuitive puzzle mechanics
  • Lack of polish in animations and voice acting
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 7th Sector

  • Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh

  • Venge

  • System Shock

  • Teslagrad Remastered

  • THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Magrunner: Dark Pulse but with less survival pressure

  • Q.U.B.E. 2

  • Dimhaven - The Lost Source

  • COCOON

  • Gravitas

  • The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

  • Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

More expressive

Games that feels like Magrunner: Dark Pulse but with more self-expression and customization

  • MIO: Memories in Orbit

  • Prey

  • Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

  • ADACA

  • Life Goes On: Done to Death

  • TRI: Of Friendship and Madness

Less violent

Games that feels like Magrunner: Dark Pulse but with less combat and destruction

  • Outer Wilds

  • Planet of Lana II

  • Metamorphosis

  • Monolith

  • Enigma of Fear

  • Master Reboot

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Sinking City Remastered

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

  • Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Magrunner: Dark Pulse: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Strategy, Growth. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026