Boxville
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 2.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.80/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 420 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD Radeon RX Vega 7. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
27 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Submachine: Legacy ($24.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68).
More about Boxville
Of the 330 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
85% start to 61% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Guys, this game isn't just a game for me; I enjoy its graphics even more than the gameplay itself. Some people have finished it in less time... However, I struggled with just three puzzles, which led me to quickly look up the solutions on YouTube. I can't even describe it! I wish there were more games with this cartoonish, vintage-inspired art style. My favorite puzzle was the one where you guessed what the...
2 more reviews
just a really fun and short experience, puzzles are fairly fun and simple and it's seemingly in the style of machinarium but with brighter and unrusted visuals the city is clearly quite expansive but we only get to see a small part of it, so i would say the game is worth it despite how short it is
This game. Beautiful art, cozy gameplay, and very charming! A must have if you are into puzzle games.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Boxville scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1750710/boxvilleReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.