Magnet Bead Maze
Flip the magnet's polarity to roll a steel bead through a maze of metal poles.
Tap the screen to toggle polarity; the bead rolls toward the same pole and away from the opposite, threading it to the exit before the timer drains.
Tap anywhere to flip polarity; the bead's current trajectory responds instantly.
Clean blueprint grid with silver poles and a chrome bead on a dark navy background.
Magnet toy and satisfying physics clips consistently go viral on TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
Polarity-flip-to-guide-steel-bead is compelling, but a near-identical concept ('Polarity - Magnet Puzzle') already exists where you tap tiles to flip poles and herd a charged 'Core' to its exit.Polarity - Magnet Puzzle: flip poles to escort a charged core to exit; same core mental model as Magnet Bead Maze. ↗
Satisfying magnet/attraction-repulsion clips do surface on TikTok and YouTube Shorts (e.g. 'World's Most Satisfying Magnet Experiment'), but the audience skews to real-physics ASMR, not game app installs.Viral magnet satisfaction video showing strong but generic reach. ↗27K-likes magnet satisfaction TikTok confirms trend exists, but rarely converts to game downloads. ↗
One-tap polarity flip + straightforward ball-and-pole physics is trivially prototype-able; closest comp is a solo-dev 63.5 MB puzzle with no IAP pipeline.Polarity shipped by a solo indie dev with a minimal mechanic, indicating low build complexity for the proposed maze variant. ↗
Timer + one-tap control is a textbook hypercasual rewarded-interstitial/revived setup, but the magnet-balls sub-genre has many low-ARPDAU lookalikes (Magnet Balls!, Magnet Balls Pro, Magnet Balls Ultimate, etc.) diluting inventory value; comp app deliberately ships ad-only with no IAP.Magnet Balls! by AppTout — multiple magnet-ball titles crowding the category with similar ad-supported models. ↗138+ magnet-balls apps on iOS indicates a crowded, low-CPM sub-genre. ↗
The 'magnet ball / magnetic puzzle' category is highly saturated on both stores (138+ iOS apps, multiple 'Magnet Balls' franchises by different studios) and the closest mechanic twin (Polarity) just shipped in July 2025 — wide-open space claim is unsupported.138+ magnet-ball apps catalogued on iOS, indicating heavy saturation. ↗Direct mechanic competitor Polarity launched Jul 2025, refreshed 6 days ago — minimal whitespace for a polarity-flip maze. ↗