It's the box-pushing festival on Steam, these are the games you must not miss for anything in the world

The genre of moving boxes, sokoban, may not be the most appealing to most players. However, that doesn’t take away from the fact that it has excellent video games. Moving boxes sounds like something that isn’t fun, but when done well and integrated into the logic of puzzles, or even other genres, it results in excellent games. And what better opportunity to prove it than with the Steam Box Pushing Festival?

We have to admit that there are several games we love that are not on sale, but we have still managed to gather five box-pushing games with a generous discount that you shouldn’t miss. Because sokoban is great. Sokoban is life. And we are going to prove it to you with these five games that you shouldn’t miss for anything in the world. Even if your first reaction to the idea of box-pushing games is to think that we are crazy for saying that all these games are great.

Stephen’s Sausage Roll (€8.69 / -70%)

To begin with, technically we don’t push boxes. We push sausages. And we do it in one of the most absolutely brilliant puzzles of the last decade, which knows how to play excellently with humor, extraordinarily complex scenarios, and puzzles that are much more complex than they seem at first glance. Doesn’t it seem so because of its premise? We have to move sausages. With a kind of meatball using a fork. But trust us: Stephen’s Sausage Roll is a game you shouldn’t miss for anything in the world.

Isles of Sea and Sky (€9.75 / -50%)

If you love Zelditas, the 2D Zeldas from NES, SNES, and Game Boy, then you can’t miss the best Zeldita that hasn’t come from Nintendo in years. It’s also a sokoban! Because Isles of Sea and Sky is exactly what one would expect from a 2D The Legend of Zelda, but placing a lot of emphasis on puzzles and moving boxes. All of this with excellent art and brilliant mechanics that will delight fans of the Nintendo franchise.

SquishCraft (€3.41 / -40%)

Another very particular sokoban, this time about combining boxes. If we push two boxes with the same texture together, it will form a new box with a new texture. From there, we will have to figure out how to overcome its 60 levels, all based on this premise: squashing boxes. But do we only squash boxes? Maybe. But to find out, you’ll have to play it and discover why, for many, it was the hidden GOTY of 2022.

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (€8.99 / -50%)

What if instead of moving yourself to move the objects in the world, you moved the world to move yourself and the objects that are in your same line? That’s what the absolutely brilliant Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is about, a game as beautiful as it is absolutely fascinating, which also reminds one of the 2D The Legend of Zelda, but in a very personal way. One of those absolutely unique games.

Void Stranger (€9.07 / -23%)

We saved the best game for last. The true GOTY of 2023. An absolute monster absolutely impossible to System Erasure that if it’s not the best puzzle game in history, it’s at least in the conversation. Void Stranger is a box-moving game and is infinitely more than that. Narratively fascinating and mechanically brilliant, it is one of the densest, most complex, and profound games you have ever played. If you like puzzle games, take our word for it: this is the best one out there, whether it’s about moving boxes or anything else.

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