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Boxville

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • Charming and cozy atmosphere
  • Engaging and logical puzzles
  • Relaxing soundtrack
  • Wordless storytelling accessible to all

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some puzzles lack clear guidance
  • Confusing menu icons leading to accidental progress loss
  • Limited replay value
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • TOHU

  • Birth

  • Lilly Looking Through

  • Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

  • My Brother Rabbit

  • Truberbrook / Trüberbrook

  • Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

  • Heal

  • Lumino City

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Hidden Gems

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  • Escapism

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  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Boxville: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Continuation, Value, Intimacy.

Last update: 26/07/2026