Patrick's Parabox
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.10.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $3.08/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 28 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $11.10 BANGER line 4 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Linelith ($2.39, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72).
None of the 332 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 505 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
6.5 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
Players
41 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Patrick's Parabox scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1260520/patrick-s-paraboxReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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