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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.

  • Vext Edit
    Web
    A tricky block-pushing game that puts you in the puzzle designer's seat.
  • 5 Step Steve
    Web
    With only 5 steps before he perishes, help Steve rescue his kitten crew.
  • Baba Is You
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.
  • Vertebrae
    Web
    A curious little mouse and his snake skeleton companion solve an archipelago of tricky puzzles.
  • Hiding Spot
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Find a cozy hiding spot by rearranging the furniture in this tricky sokoban game.
  • One More Button
    Windows
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    A puzzle game in which your own controls depend on the blocks available on the screen.
  • Push Blox
    Windows
    Lift and push colorful blocks that merge when they touch to complex puzzle contraptions.
  • Pipe Push Paradise
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Xbox Series X|S
    Xbox One
    iPad
    Android
    Roll pipes to repair a tropical island's plumbing.
  • Campfire Cooking
    Windows
    MacOS
    iPad
    Gather round the campfire, toasting marshmallows just right in this grid-based skewer-turning puzzler.
  • Yankai's Peak.
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    iPad
    Android
    Solve pyramid-pushing puzzles on an abstract, triangular grid.
  • Stephen's Sausage Roll
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    A difficult sausage-rolling sokoban odyssey.
  • A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Build snowmen by rolling snowballs into place (and give them a hug!)
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