Magrunner: Dark Pulse
When technology meets Cthulhu! Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, as imagined by author, H. P. Lovecraft. You are Dax, one of seven Magrunners…
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 20 June 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 9.2 hrs to finish.
What Magrunner: Dark Pulse is
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2013. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When technology meets Cthulhu! Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, as imagined by author, H. P. Lovecraft. You are Dax, one of seven Magrunners selected among the elite to participate in MagTech Corporation's space training program. But, what should be the chance of a lifetime quickly becomes a horrific nightmare. 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. Your reflexes and ingenuity will be pushed to their limits as you make your way through 40+ immense and dangerous levels, including high-tech…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Magrunner: Dark Pulse holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.2 hrs.
What it launched against
Magrunner: Dark Pulse launched on 20 June 2013, within three weeks of The Last of Us, Dota 2, Trine 2: Complete Story and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us, Dota 2, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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