Boxboy!
Box Boy! is a platform game in which players control a box-shaped character named Qbby as he makes his way through each level. The source of the game's mechanics come from Qbby's ability to spawn boxes out of…
Boxboy! is a platform developed by HAL Laboratory, released 14 January 2015 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Boxboy! is
Boxboy! is a platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
BoxBoy! is a series of puzzle-platform games developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The series centres around Qbby, a square-shaped character who can produce a string of connected boxes. The boxes are used to overcome obstacles in stages that Qbby must be guided through. The first game, BoxBoy!, released on January 14, 2015, in Japan on the Nintendo 3DS. Its sequel, BoxBoxBoy!, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016, with a third game, Bye-Bye BoxBoy!, in 2017. A physical compilation of the first three games, HakoBoy! Hakozume Box, was released in Japan. A fourth installment, BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!, was released for the Nintendo Switch in April 2019.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Boxboy! holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Boxboy! launched on 14 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Boxboy! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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