Boxville is a stunning point-and-click adventure that feels like a labor of love. The hand-drawn art style is evocative of 'Machinarium,' but with its own unique, slightly softer cardboard-world aesthetic. The game tells its story entirely through visual cues and speech bubbles filled with drawings, making it a universal experience that transcends language barriers. It’s a quiet, contemplative game that rewards observation and logical thinking.
The puzzles are cleverly integrated into the environment. You aren't just solving abstracts; you're helping the inhabitants of Boxville with their daily problems, which makes the world feel alive and reactive. The sound design is equally impressive, with a gentle, atmospheric soundtrack that complements the visual style perfectly. It’s a short experience—typical for the genre—but every minute is polished and memorable. A must-play for fans of indie adventure games.
Available on: iPhone, iPad, iPod
Version 1.17Thu Jan 11 2024
Issue with save files fixed
Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle 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.
Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together.
Design
The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time.
We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure.
The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options.
Story
Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll...
Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way.
He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal.
What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville:
- Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists.
- Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction.
- Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game.
- Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game.
- There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.Boxville is an award-winning adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories.
Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle 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.
Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together.
Design
The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time.
We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure.
The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options.
Story
Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll...
Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way.
He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal.
What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville:
- Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists.
- Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction.
- Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game.
- Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game.
- There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.












Boxville is a 2-in-1 experience: an animated film and a puzzle game. Set in a city populated by cans, you must navigate a world of cardboard boxes and solve intricate puzzles to progress the story. The game features no spoken dialogue; all communication happens through charming hand-drawn animations and sketches. With its unique art style and relaxing atmosphere, Boxville is a journey of friendship and logic that will enchant players of all ages.
Exquisite hand-drawn graphics and animation
Intuitive, language-independent storytelling
Clever and logical environmental puzzles
Atmospheric and award-winning sound design
If you are stuck on a puzzle, look at the background drawings. Characters often 'think' in sketches that show exactly which item they need or where a missing piece is.
Triomatica Games intends to bring Boxville to Switch, the developer has revealed. It's due out on June 1, 2023. Boxville is an adventure...
Nintendo Everything - Mon Dec 02 2024
Developed and published by Triomatica Games, Boxville puts you in the shoes of a soda can living in the top part of a city constructed of...
Adventure Gamers - Thu Jan 02 2025
We have just picked up new achievements for Boxville. There are 18 achievements worth a total of 1000 Gamerscore, none of which are secret.
TrueAchievements - Sun Feb 02 2025
The incredibly cute Boxville game from the Ukrainian-Slovak studio Triomatica Games has been released on Steam.
Mezha.Media - Thu May 02 2024
As part of this year's Game Developers Conference (and as is tradition), a dozen of up-and-coming ID@Xbox titles have demos available for...
XboxEra - Wed Oct 02 2024
Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits.
Adventure Gamers - Fri Jun 02 2023
Demo available for Machinarium-styled hand-painted adventure coming to Windows, Mac and Linux next September.
Adventure Gamers - Fri Jun 02 2023
Interact with everything! Many puzzles require you to move items across different screens to find the right combination of tools.
A typical playthrough takes between 3 to 5 hours depending on how quickly you solve the puzzles.