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The latest sokoban games

Sokoban games, also known as block-pushing or box-pushing games, are turn-based puzzle games in which you control a character pushing or moving objects around on a grid. The genre has origins in the 1982 game Sokoban, designed by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, in which you have to push boxes around a warehouse onto designated targets. The japanese word 倉庫番 (“sōkoban”) translates to “warehouse keeper”.

Traditional sokoban games tend to focus on carefully moving boxes around in tight spaces, while more modern games tend to focus on having insights about their systems and mechanics. Stephen's Sausage Roll is particularly notable for its influence on the genre, to the degree that some of the games in this new wave of sokoban games are known as “Sausage-likes”.

The games listed below are the most recently released sokoban games in the Thinky Games database.

  • Kine
    Windows
    Nintendo Switch
    PlayStation 4
    Xbox Series X|S
    Xbox One
    Twist and turn three musical characters through narrative-driven grid-based puzzles.
  • A Monster's Expedition
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 5
    iPad
    iPhone
    Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.
  • The Golem
    Windows
    Merge and destroy blocks in this challenging grid-based puzzle game.
  • Couch Installation Service
    Windows
    Push furniture on diagonals to harmonize inviting rooms.
  • Riko
    Web
    Rotate Riko and her laser gun through challenging sokoban puzzles.
  • Helltaker
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Meet sharply dressed demons as you venture down to a block-pushing hell.
  • Shackle
    Windows
    Web
    Shackled to a ball and chain, use them to your advantage to solve block-pushing puzzles.
  • Push Blox 2
    Windows
    Push and lift blocks that merge together, solving puzzling contraptions.
  • Snaliens
    Windows
    Linux
    Help the Snaliens escape from a planet of block-pushing and circuitry puzzles.
  • Edge Case
    Web
    Use terminals to make these PuzzleScript rooms loop on themselves.
  • Enigmash
    Web
    A variety of sokoban games spliced together, side-by-side, in this challenging puzzler.
  • What Gophers Go For
    Web
    Push and slide hungry gophers to eat every bit of food.
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