The critically acclaimedBoxboypuzzle game series is coming back on Nintendo Switch, with a brand new game:BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!. The announcement was made on today’s Nintendo Direct.
BoxBoy!is a puzzle platform series by HAL Laboratories. The first game released on 3DS in 2015, and quickly got recognized thanks to its ingenious box-using puzzles. The game got multiple sequels with new stages and puzzles, still on Nintendo 3DS.
Players control Qbby, a box which can basically unload other boxes to create platforms to attain new heights, bridges to cross spikes and the like. Qbby can also attach the unloaded boxes to itself, creating an arms-like object by piling multiple bocks, to use it to push a switch and open doors.
The main addition inBoxBoy! + BoxGirl!is a simultaneous 2 players mode, withBoxBoy!andBoxGirl!helping each other to solve puzzles and reach the stage’s ending. The game will have 270 stages in total.
CompletingBoxBoy! and BoxGirl!’s story mode will also unlock a new mode where players control Qudy, a rectangular, taller box, for new harder puzzles.
BoxBoy’s developing team at HAL Laboratory is basically made of most of the people also working onKirbygames. The series' director, Yasuhiro Mukae, previously worked on multiple Kirbygames, and his experience from there with platformers shows.BoxBoy’s artist, Tatsuya Kamiyama, worked on the most recent Kirby games likeKirby: Planet Robobot. Last but not least,BoxBoy’s music is mostly handled on Jun Ishikawa, who worked on everyKirbygame sinceKirby’s Dream Land, the originalKirbyon Gameboy.
Despite the game’s simple, childish-like atmosphere, the previous BoxBoys could prove to be quite a challenge, with later stages having many hazards hindering Qbby’s progression like lasers. It seems like a great choice if you’re into puzzle and platform games, and the two-player mode can let you play with younger children and help them out.
BoxBoy! and BoxGirl!will release digitally only on the Nintendo Eshop on June 21, 2025.
You can watchBoxBoy! and BoxGirl!‘s trailer below, found at around the 32-minute mark of the Nintendo Direct video.
