Patrick\u2019s Parabox<\/em> sees you pushing boxes into other boxes, squeezing them into larger and smaller realities that interconnect with one another.<\/p>\n

In this game, you control a little box that you move around, and there are other boxes you can shove into new positions. Some boxes contain their own internal layouts, though, and if you push a box into it, you\u2019ll squeeze inside. If you move your box inside, this new layout then becomes your reality, spreading out around you. Here, you can push further boxes in and out of here to continue to shape the various boxes that you are residing inside. It\u2019s in working with the connections between these boxes that the game gets complicated. And it can get complicated FAST.<\/p>\n

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That complexity can come from the boxes sometimes containing the world you\u2019re inhabiting at the time. Take the above screenshot as an example. You\u2019re simultaneously inside of two boxes at once, as the box inside the level also contains the level. This means your actions can take place in two realities at once, affecting both depending on what you do. These layers can get far deeper than this the further you get in the game, resulting in all sorts of things happening as you squish and grow blocks based on where you push them. I\u2019ve often found myself dizzyingly lost and having to take a few moments to gather my thoughts when, technically, I\u2019ve just moved some boxes around. It\u2019s the connections between these layers\/realities that make the game so confounding, yet so difficult to walk away from. It\u2019s honestly fun just to push things and see what happens, sometimes.<\/p>\n

Patrick\u2019s Parabox<\/em> is a wild puzzle game that will definitely have you scratching your head often as you try to figure out the logic of something you\u2019ve just done. However, it\u2019s constantly pleasing to just see how all of these block worlds affect one another as you try to figure out those puzzles.<\/p>\n