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Puzzle Box cover art

Puzzle Box

BplusGames · OtakuMaker.com · 2016-04-22

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 22, 2016 (Mac), 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Puzzle Box is painting with creative gameplay! Create fantastic pixel art images, by dropping your colour paint blocks in the correct place across the levels.

Puzzle Box is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Positive review sentiment (84% of 38 reviews).

0
playing now
84%
positive of 38 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 27,780 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162025Week of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992016-04-012026-07-252016-04-01 — best price $8.992016-04-28 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-07-19 — best price $9.992016-09-27 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $2.992016-12-12 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $1.992018-04-28 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $6.592019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992021-02-20 — best price $1.992021-03-05 — best price $1.992021-04-26 — best price $3.992021-06-24 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992023-08-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-05-19 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992026-07-10 — best price $5.992026-07-25 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
28%
earned "Sector 01 unlocked"
2.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2016-04-22, latest 2016-07-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

FunnyIndieRetroActionCasualPuzzleStrategyAdventurePlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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