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BoxesWithGuns

Thomas Christof · 2015-04-14

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 14, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

BoxesWithGuns is a 2D neon vertex endless shooter game. Try to survive as long as possible by avoiding collisions with the enemies that spawn. One game equals the length of the background music track playing. Collect dollars and customize your spaceship by adding new boxes and weapons.

BoxesWithGuns is an Action and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $1.99, with a Mostly Negative review sentiment (21% of 81 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
21%
positive of 81 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Dormant
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · No new reviews since week of 2019-11-01.
  • · Top 42% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 81 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.51 at Steam (2022-06-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120152025Week of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.512015-01-012022-07-072015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-03-17 — best price $0.992015-03-31 — best price $3.992015-04-14 — best price $1.752015-04-17 — best price $1.992015-04-21 — best price $1.992015-06-01 — best price $0.992015-06-10 — best price $1.992015-06-11 — best price $0.992015-06-22 — best price $1.992015-09-28 — best price $1.492015-10-05 — best price $1.992016-08-08 — best price $0.992016-08-15 — best price $1.992017-10-26 — best price $0.992017-11-01 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $0.512022-07-07 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
82.7%
earned "Gamestart"
13.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Japanese

Player tags

IndieActionArcadeSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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