Name: Magnet Hunt
Brand: Steam
Price: 1.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Magnet Hunt is listed at $1.99 on Steam.

Magnet Hunt is at full price right now. We track it so you will see the moment a genuine discount lands.

The lowest we have tracked is $1.19, so this is not quite the floor.

As a recent release, discounts this early are relatively uncommon.

Genre: Casual, Racing, Strategy · Developer: JA Studio · Release: Sep 4, 2026.

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About this game

How it plays

Magnet Hunt is a small, arcade-flavored dive game where you drop into the ocean with nothing but a magnet and gravity working against (and sometimes for) you. Each run sends you sinking toward the sea floor, and your job is to manage that descent: speed up when the coast is clear, ease off when a fish or a stone gets in your way, and lean into the magnet’s pull to line yourself up for the treasure waiting below. It’s built around short, self-contained dives rather than one long session, so a run that goes wrong costs you seconds, not minutes, and you’re straight back in for another attempt. The three difficulty settings change more than just how tightly packed the hazards are. Easy, Medium, and Hard each apply their own movement rules and pacing, so the way you handle your descent on one setting doesn’t necessarily carry over to the next. That’s really the whole loop: read the water, adjust your speed, don’t get clipped, grab the payoff at the bottom.

Who it’s for

This one’s aimed at people who like tight, replayable arcade challenges they can pick up for five minutes and actually finish something in. If you enjoy games where the fun comes from getting incrementally better at controlling momentum, the kind of feedback loop you’d get from an old flash game or a mobile time-killer, this fits that niche well. It also suits anyone curious about small, single-developer projects rather than big-budget productions. If you’re after depth, story, or a long campaign to sink hours into, this isn’t that game, and it isn’t trying to be. Players who need constant new content or systems to unlock will likely bounce off it faster than those who just want a focused, repeatable challenge.

Is it worth it?

For what it is, a compact, one-idea arcade game from a solo developer, the expectations should be set accordingly: this isn’t a game you measure by hours logged, it’s one you measure by how many “just one more dive” runs you end up doing in a sitting. If that loop clicks for you, it’s a reasonable pickup, especially for anyone who likes supporting small independent releases directly on Steam. It’s the kind of title that fits comfortably into a sale-browsing habit: something you grab cheap, get a good hour or two of genuine enjoyment from, and don’t feel like you overpaid for. Just go in knowing it’s a focused arcade experience and not a sprawling one, and it’s easy to get your money’s worth out of it.