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BoxesWithGuns

Thomas Christof · 2015-04-14

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
21%
positive of 81 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 72% of 10,951 Action games in the census by review count.
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

Players online

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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).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Japanese

Census log

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

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