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Games like Magicube

If Magicube is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Bridge, Munin and The Last Cube — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Magicube: A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.

2023Indie2.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby nebu soku
Magicube — Steam game cover
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Craftsmanship of level design is unmatchedLevels reward lateral thinking over brute forceMinimalist mechanics hide emergent complexityChallengingContemplativeIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Magicube also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. The Bridge

    WHY THIS

    Shares gravity manipulation and a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Top pick for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

    2013StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Munin

    WHY THIS

    Shares gravity manipulation and a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Second-strongest match for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Last Cube

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Third-strongest match for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Lightmatter

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Ranked #4 for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Ball

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Ranked #5 for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

    2010ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Stealth Bastard Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

    2012ActionIndie1.29 USDSteam ↗
  7. Baba Is You

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Ranked #7 for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

    2019Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Circa Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Ranked #8 for Magicube fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.

    2015ActionIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Magicube

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Stephen's Sausage Roll

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Reviewers of Magicube cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A simple 3d puzzle game.

    2016Indie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Snakebird

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Magicube.

    Reviewers of Magicube cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

    2015Indie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Recursed

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Magicube.

    Reviewers of Magicube cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

    2016IndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Baba Is You

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Reviewers of Magicube cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

    2019Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Magicube at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Magicube on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Bridge

    WHY THIS

    Shares gravity manipulation and a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

    2013StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Munin

    WHY THIS

    Shares gravity manipulation and a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Baba Is You

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Magicube.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Magicube.

    Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

    2019Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Magicube

Does Magicube run on Steam Deck?
Magicube is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Magicube cost?
Magicube is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Magicube?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Magicube are The Bridge, Munin, The Last Cube.
Who developed Magicube?
Magicube was developed by nebu soku.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Magicube.

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