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2016 PC

A tiny first-person metroidvania where you unlock abilities one by one, hunt for secrets and try to break out of the titular box.

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The closest matches for Boxlife are You Have to Win the Game, 1000 Amps and Pertinence. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Boxlife special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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You Have to Win the Game

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2012 PC free 👍 93 % Very positive, 5,675 reviews on Steam

Lots to discover
Gameplay comes before story
Bright, upbeat tone

A free retro platformer styled after early 1980s PC games, where you explore a small world full of hidden routes and secrets in order to win. It playfully toys with genre conventions and has little story or conventional combat.

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1000 Amps

Focus on a single character

As the little plug Plug, you explore a sprawling tree-like network, light up its areas and solve puzzles in a compact Metroidvania-style platformer.

Pertinence

Gameplay comes before story

A minimalist top-down adventure that drops you into a grid of rooms with almost no guidance. Discovery and experimentation unlock new abilities and areas.

Ascender

Focus on a single character

A 2D puzzle platformer where you explore the interconnected districts of GOA and solve many distinct puzzles along the way.

Minimalism

Gameplay comes before story

A minimalist platformer where you guide a cube through a labyrinth of many levels, collecting keys to unlock the doors between them.

Lunnye Devitsy

Focus on a single character

A small indie adventure in which an alien fallen from the moon explores a vast mountainside, solves puzzles and helps strange characters on the way back home.

Gateways

Bright, upbeat tone

A 2D puzzle-platformer set in an inventor's lab, where you use gateway guns to open paths through walls. Portal-style puzzles meet Metroidvania-style exploration and unlockable abilities.

Size Matters

Focus on a single character

As a shrinking scientist, you hunt through a laboratory against the clock for the ingredients and formulas needed for a life-saving antidote. The world grows larger and more hazardous every second.

Antiflux

Gameplay comes before story

A tricky puzzle platformer in the Metroidvania mold, where new abilities gradually open up more areas and puzzles. Little information is available about this indie title, so the ratings are conservative.

Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube

Gameplay comes before story

An atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer where you collect and use cubes with special powers like gravity and propulsion to reach the portal to each new world.

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