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BoxBoxBoy!

BoxBoxBoy! is a puzzle-platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2016. It is the sequel to BoxBoy! and follows the character Qbby as he navigates levels by creating chains of boxes to overcome…

77 6 January 2016

BoxBoxBoy! is a platform developed by HAL Laboratory, released 6 January 2016 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What BoxBoxBoy! is

BoxBoxBoy! is a platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

BoxBoxBoy! is a 2016 puzzle-platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. The second game in the BoxBoy! series, the game was released in Japan in January 2016, and in other territories in June 2016.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

BoxBoxBoy! holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

BoxBoxBoy! launched on 6 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon, Yakuza Kiwami.

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When did BoxBoxBoy! come out?
BoxBoxBoy! was released on 6 January 2016 for Nintendo 3DS.

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