BOXBOY! (3DS)

BOYBOY! is a cute puzzle game from HAL Laboratory with a super simple monochromatic style.  As the title suggests, you play as a box.  A boy box, specifically, named Qbby.  The puzzles start out stupid easy, but as the game progresses, you'll have to think harder and harder about how to get past each challenge.  Once you get to the post-game, it's downright tough.

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As you traverse the game's 17 worlds (22 including the post-game challenge worlds), each containing between five and seven stages, you'll have to master a variety of skills from arranging your boxes to timing your box placements to move past spike conveyor belts.  You have to figure out how to cross gaps, ascend to higher ledges, depress multiple buttons at once, avoid lasers, etc.  These challenges can take some thought and trial and error, but fortunately, you have infinite lives; checkpoints are frequently, and you respawn at a checkpoint as soon as you die.  While it can get frustrating towards the end of the game, it's a great game to work your brain as it forces you think about how to tackle obstacles from different perspectives.

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BOXBOY! isn't terribly long, and there's not a huge amount of variety in the game, but it's definitely worth playing.  It's only available on 3DS, though, and only digitally (at least in North America; there's a physical collection with the three 3DS games in Japan), so you'd better hurry up and download it before March, 2023 if you're interested in it.  It's not going to blow your mind, but it's a solid puzzle game and well worth the six or seven hours you're likely to spend with it.

My Rating - 3 Neps