Sokoban
Ongoing coverage on Sokoban.
Latest coverage
Order of the Sinking Star Review – Drown in the Deep
Order of the Sinking Star offers a deeply engaging puzzle experience with over 1000 interconnected puzzles across multiple distinct regions. While the game's challenging nature and occasional pacing issues might not be for everyone, its intricate design, narrative depth, and satisfying feedback loop make it a compelling journey for puzzle enthusiasts. Performance drops on PlayStation 5 are noted as a minor drawback.
Order of the Sinking Star review: Worlds collide
Order of the Sinking Star is a Sokoban masterpiece, fusing multiple puzzle mechanics into a cohesive and challenging experience. Developed by Jonathan Blow, the game features intricate puzzles that progressively reveal layered mechanics, offering a deeply rewarding experience that continues even after the credits roll.
Order Of The Sinking Star Sometimes Has Too Much Of A Great Thing
Order of the Sinking Star, a puzzle game from Thekla Interactive and director Jonathan Blow, offers a vast number of challenging block-pushing puzzles across an expansive overworld. While its sheer size and complexity can sometimes be overwhelming and its narrative thin, the game's inventive mechanics, intuitive design, and forgiving quality-of-life features make it a compelling experience for puzzle enthusiasts.
Temari Trials: Dojo’s Test Review | TheXboxHub
Temari Trials: Dojo's Test is a clever puzzle game that blends Sokoban mechanics with sliding puzzles and elements inspired by snooker. While it doesn't entirely escape the genre's inherent repetition, its innovative additions and polished presentation make it a worthwhile experience for puzzle enthusiasts, especially at its price point.
Push, Think And Repeat With KAWAII PUSH On Xbox
KAWAII PUSH, a colorful Sokoban-style puzzler with anime-inspired visuals, has been released on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC for £4.19. Developed and published by YUME GAME STUDIO, the game offers a relaxed yet surprisingly tricky challenge where players must push boxes into correct positions. A bundle including KAWAII PUSH AND KEYQUACK QUEST is also available.
Runes Quest Review | TheXboxHub
Runes Quest is a short, easy Sokoban puzzle game with 30 levels that offers a pleasant, retro-RPG-like presentation. However, the game lacks significant challenge, failing to introduce complex mechanics or offer features like collectibles or move counters, which may disappoint players seeking a more demanding puzzle experience.
Mia’s Journey Review | TheXboxHub
Mia's Journey is a visually stunning 3D Sokoban game with excellent presentation and well-designed puzzles. However, its ambitious shift to 3D is hampered by imprecise controls, a lack of an undo button, and unusual mechanics that make the experience frustrating and ultimately disappointing.
Sneak Cheese Review | TheXboxHub
Sneak Cheese attempts to fuse Sokoban puzzle mechanics with stealth elements, but ultimately falls short of meaningfully enhancing either genre. While the game presents familiar Sokoban challenges with the addition of patrolling and sleeping cats as obstacles, the stealth mechanics are too lightweight to add significant strategic depth or excitement. The review concludes that the fusion is underwhelming and an opportunity missed, making the game feel more like a slower, less engaging Sokoban experience.
Next Week on XBOX: New Games for September 28 to October 2
This weekly feature highlights new games coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC between September 28 and October 2. Titles include Minecraft Dungeons II, Gears of War: E-Day, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, and a remastered The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, among many others across various genres.
Find Your Way Home In Runes Quest
Runes Quest, a new puzzle game developed by Lovixsama and published by Xitilon, has been released on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC for £4.19. The game challenges players to guide a knight home through 30 levels inspired by classic Sokoban gameplay, featuring cute visuals and relaxing music.
Mole Mine Boom Review | TheXboxHub
Mole Mine Boom is a budget sokoban puzzle game from Afil Games that experiments with mechanics like TNT and minecarts. While the first half of the game is described as a slow and laboured process, the latter half introduces more engaging puzzles. Despite its flaws, the game is a competent sokoban title with a determination to innovate on the genre.
Hole In Many Review | TheXboxHub
Hole in Many, a game that blends Sokoban and golf mechanics, attempts to innovate within the Sokoban genre. While the core concept is intriguing, the execution is described as somewhat loose, with rules that don't always mesh clearly and can lead to trial-and-error solutions. Despite these criticisms, the game is considered fun once its quirks are understood, particularly the lobbing feature and the efficiency puzzles.
Puzzledorf Review | TheXboxHub
Puzzledorf is a highly comprehensive sokoban game that offers an abundance of puzzles, including unique mechanics like sliding blocks and match-3 elements in its 'Christmas' and 'Ruins' modes. Despite the inherent repetitiveness of the genre, the game excels with its retro artwork, extensive undo/reset features, and challenging achievements, making it a standout title in the sokoban genre.
Get Your Brain Working With Puzzledorf
Puzzledorf, a colorful puzzle game with a retro 80s aesthetic, is now available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC for £8.39. Developed by Stuart's Pixel Games, it offers a clever twist on classic Sokoban mechanics with multiple block colors and obstacles, gradually increasing in difficulty.
Bunny Pit Berry Review | TheXboxHub
Bunny Pit Berry is a Sokoban puzzle game that lacks challenge and sophistication, according to this review. The game features numerous blocks that fill the levels, making the puzzles more about navigating obstacles than intricate problem-solving. While functional, the game fails to engage the player's intellect, offering a simple experience that is over too quickly.
Monty the Play Bear Review | TheXboxHub
Monty the Play Bear is a sliding puzzle game with a unique rockabilly soundtrack and a crayon-drawing art style. While it introduces mechanics like LEGO bricks and toy cars, the game ultimately feels familiar and lacks an undo button, making it a forgettable experience despite its charming elements.
Sokobear Spring Review | TheXboxHub
Sokobear Spring is a puzzle game that continues the series' tradition of bear-based sokoban gameplay, blending sliding puzzles with crate-pushing mechanics. This installment introduces a new portal mechanic where pumpkins can be teleported between entrance and exit holes, adding an extra layer of complexity to the puzzles. While the new mechanic is a welcome addition, the game offers a familiar experience that may not significantly impress fans of the genre but provides solid value for sokoban enthusiasts.
Sokobear Spring Harvests A Fresh Set Of Puzzles On Xbox And PC
Sokobear Spring, a new Sokoban-style puzzle game, has been released on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC for £4.19. Developed by Bad Kid Games and published by Little Giant and Bad Minion, the game features 40 levels with a spring theme, tasking players with pushing pumpkins onto designated spots while avoiding obstacles and chasing away moles.
Push Some Fruit Around In The Adorable Bunny Pit Berry
Afil Games has released Bunny Pit Berry, a new puzzle adventure game inspired by Sokoban, for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. The game challenges players to push fruit into picnic baskets, featuring a cute hamster protagonist and a springtime setting. It is available for £4.19 and offers a compact, logic-based challenge.
Club Soko is cartoonishly dark and splattered with beer - and it's a wonderful puzzler, too
Club Soko is a puzzle game that reimagines the Sokoban genre within a cartoonishly dark nightclub setting. The game's unique presentation, combined with its challenging block-pushing mechanics and hidden secrets, makes for a compelling and oppressive experience. Its personified obstacles and compact levels contribute to a memorable and engaging puzzle-solving adventure.
