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BOXROOM allows you to design, define and decorate a room - a sanctuary - for your Steam library, and then revel in the organisation of your game collection.

BOXROOM is a simulation, software and life sim game developed by Nested Loop Studios and published by Pantaloon.
Released on June 11th 2026 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 307 reviews of which 218 were positive and 89 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.59€ on Instant Gaming.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ (64-bit recommended)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-6300 or better
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated Graphics (Intel HD 4000 or equivalent)
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card

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21 hours played
July 2026
📦 It's difficult to give a rational assessment right now, as it's clearly in Early Access. If you don't enjoy immersing in editors, designing environments, and sorting your things, then this is definitely not for you. The game currently offers a fairly average (for the genre) selection of design solutions. There are some strange limitations, furniture is glitchy, placement requires direction guidance, while items require collisions fixes and placing objects on N surfaces corrections. 📢 COVERS can currently be automatically downloaded only via the «BoxCo Wizard» utility (some users didn't realize this, it should have been specified in the game). I like the potential, but it's raw and needs a lot of polishing and patches. Though creating room templates and sharing them through the workshop is a great feature.
4 hours played
July 2026
Let me start by saying, even thoguh I put I reccomond this game, I don't reccomend buying this game right now. I like the idea but needs some fixes. Because it is so new, Id wait it out to see what is done to the game. Here is a more in detail review. I love the idea, that was why I bought it, but the execution could be better. Sometimes I can't place items down even when there is clearly space and nothing blocking it, for example, I couldn't place a stapler on my desk even though the only other item on the desk was a monitor that was at the back of the desk. Also, I wish there were some more items or some more items get added. I wanted to do a kitchen to put some of my games that kind of fit and I wanted to have the microwave and coffee pot to be in a room separate from the bedroom but there was nothing that I could really use as a kitchen counter. More items need to be added. Another issue I had was some pictures I put as the game cover or screenshot for a game to put on the posters and picture frames wouldn't load. Half of the times I had an issue with the pictures I would see the picture on the cover but couldn't put the picture on the 2 big posters/frames but I could on the smaller ones and the other times I couldn't even see the picture on the game cover. The last main issue I had was when I would leave, my progress wouldn't save sometimes or my game cases would get kind of shuffled. Now, I will say, one of the times this happened my game crashed (because I am playing on a crappy laptop) but I still had this happen one time when I just left the game and got back on a few hours later. Because of how new this game is (Not even been out for a month as of writing this), I expect most of these issue I have been having will be fixed and more items will be added in the near future, so maybe don't get the game right now and instead wait a little bit to see what gets added and fixed or see if anything is done at all. Overall, concept is a 10/10 idea but execution is like a 4/10. Just needs bug fixes and more items.
1 hours played
June 2026
I'm sad to see this has been downvoted to mixed. I only just opened the game so I can't speak too much but genuinely, I am sold on the idea. My brother released a game solo on Steam and when I pulled it from the box, there was a bit of an awe moment because I wasn't really thinking about it. His name is on the bottom right corner of the case as the developer. Opened it, looked at the game cartridge, closed it and then put it in the top corner of a bookshelf. I was like, ♥♥♥♥ yeah. That's the ♥♥♥♥. That was a wonderful feeling. For the many that aren't going to read the notes from the developers: "As you're probably well aware, BOXROOM uses the Steam API in a rather novel way, and it seems we're one of the very first games to do so: as such, there was no real precedent in terms of a review/approval process. Valve needed to take a bit longer than usual to review the game and approve it for release, and we therefore had a few last minute hurdles to overcome. In order to bring the game to Steam, we've needed to make an important change: BOXROOM will no longer pull your games’ capsule art or screenshots directly." The developers do have a solution for it outside of the game. Things aren't perfect but keep in mind, I imagine this is frustrating for them too.
98 hours played
June 2026
absolutely worth it, this will be so nice with more updates down the line! people complain about not much to do in this "game" but thats pretty much the point - it is a virtual game library for you to create and launch games from to get all the game art you need the box wizard from itch -> https://pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom-box-wizard since they had to remove the ingame function after valve said NOPE. at first it didnt find all my games for the art download but after placing some of my games on the in-game shelfs and checking the box wizard again it found all +2000 here is a quote from the nested loop studios discord of noted requested stuff up until now (24th june 2026) : "Most Requested: VR Support Ability to play music Importing Non-steam games Steam Family Share Custom Games Quality of Life: Weather Options Linux Support Snap to grid system Disable Post-Processing Ability to move windows around Stats tab (games, hours, achievements) Undo and Redo buttons Ability to duplicate games Make spines of game cases stand out more Ability to hide/throw away games Ability to move all furniture in the room A way to see and display wish listed games Disable dust particles Ability to duplicate rooms Box sorted by game achievement percentage Customization of what is in the game box. IE: Instead of cartridge maybe have it so we can swap the visual with CD versions? (For those of us who grew up with them instead of the cartridge versions of games lol) Quick Open for games Ability to paint/change material of rugs Change cap of shown games from 50" Graphics/Game Mechanical Requests: Ability to sit on furniture, Ability to run/sprint, Ability to hold multiple games at once, A way to “order” games instead of pulling them from the box (GameFly??), Ability to make screenshots be what you see outside the window, Option to have game cases in alternate styles (other platform styles), Ambient lighting that syncs with monitors/TVs, Ability to play music from bought soundtracks, Different fonts for game cases, Export room as a 3D model file, Editing Titles of Games, Ability to adjust ceiling height, Ability to draw, System Integrations/ Immersion: DNLA Support, Launch games from PC setup directly, TVs display trailers/demo videos from the Steam Store page, Ability to see more items from Steam such as Trading Cards and News, Room connectivity between save files, Going to bed shuts off your system, Having Media Handles link to creators pages for streamers, Player height adjuster Furniture: Glow in the Dark Roof Stars Seasonal/Holiday Decor Dresser Trunk Chest Clothes Piles Horizontal Display Cases Bathroom Decor Standing Frames Blacklights and Blacklight Posters Larger TVs VR Equipment Decor Display Cases CD Cases Fish Lamps Day Planner Record Player Music Box Boom Box Trophies Figurines VHS Tapes Half Walls Stairs Way to label shelves Diagonal Walls Signs Podiums Gold Cases Shadow Box Displays Collage Posters Streamer Setups Sim Wheel Books Mouse pad that can be customized String/ Fairy lights Ceiling options Copyright free Consoles/Controllers Knockoff Food/Drinks Skylight windows Magnets CCTV Curtains/Blinds Beaded curtains Kids World rug Cushions Portable Consoles Neon Letters Flags Arcade Machine Trading card binder or similar Countertop easel stand Red leather cushion Frosted glass door Restricted Area Sign Different style/size of game boxes Apocalyptic furnishings Sticky Notes Aquarium Terrarium Skirt/Base boards Window sills Columns Bunting" --- conclusion is that the game at its price of ~8€ is really not a difficult purchase if it sounds interesting to you it is rough in some places but the dev team appears to be dedicated and early access in proceeding
7 hours played
June 2026
There are so many valid reasons to leave a negative review, instead every review rags on the game for something that was entirely out of the developers control that they literally implemented and were told to take it out. You need the BoxRoom Wizard and the game will pull all your game boxart with no further effort or input. YES it should be in the game; it literally was but Steam told them to take that out so it's just not a valid reason to negative review the game, like complaining about the bus driver coz the bridge collapsed. If you don't want to install another app for one game then check back another time or just don't get it. Do like 10 seconds of due dilligence to find out some very accessible information that you need BoxRoom Wizard to do what the game SHOULD do by default but CAN'T because of beaurocracy. Get that here https://pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom-box-wizard Here's my list of actually valid reasons to leave a negative reviews: -Doors behave extremely uncomfortably. Placing a door creates a 'room' which can then be expanded. I have already seen another reviewer do the same thing I did which was break every wall then realize after the fact that the door system means you shouldn't do this. They also can't be rotated and can be a pain to get around when open. -Windows can't be placed on the world edge and if you find this out by attempting to, enjoy moving everything back one square -The catalogue pages are extremely sluggish, there's 4 catalogues when there should really only be 2 at most, there are some furniture overlaps between the magazines and I always open the wrong one and have to paaaainfully slowly navigate to it. Like two of them have different types of shelving. Flip a coin if the one you want is in the red pill pamphlet or the blue pill pamphlet. -No way to stand a box on its bottom other than placing on a shelf, and there are lots of times when you'd want this in a decoration game; such as displaying it on its own shelf cover-out. -Every carpet is hideous lol -Problems with how games are displayed 1) BoxRoom seems to miss how many hours I have in a lot of my games. Just says 0 hours, for stuff I know I have way more. 2) BoxRoom sorts genre's weirdly. 80% of my games seem to be given the action genre and sometimes it very much is not an action game lol. So I hope you don't wanna sort by genre cuz they're all going in the action shelf lol. 3) Some games are just missing. I think I heard them say it was happening with some free games. One of my favorite games is called Haven and Hearth. Well Boxroom says no to H&H. -Two bugs exist that lose your progress; 1) If you have a big library the game loads faster than the cover arts, so half the game covers are just gone. You can create a dud file, load that, then load the first one again to fix this, but it probably shouldn't occur at all preferably. 2) I loaded in my boxroom after my initial playtime and many, many games were just straight up missing from the shelves. Back in the packing boxes. Seemingly at random. They still had their assigned poster frames so I know it passed my hands. Like Ashen. I know I sorted Ashen, I put it in 1st place on my "Worst Games I've Ever Played" shelf, but there it was back in the sorting box. Kinda unacceptable for a big sorting project game like this. This is the reason I stopped trying to organize my library, and the reason I'm not coming back til it's fixed, and the reason I'd be leaving a negative review if all the actual negative reviews weren't hot nonsense. -There is just a whole slew of discomfort with the building tools 1) Sometimes I try and rotate with the mousewheel as its a feature in some sims I play; this brings up the tool wheel, the object I was placing disappears, and you have to wiggle the wheel back into the right place to get it to show back up. 2) There are phantom invalid placements. Like a lot. Nothing's there, game says nah nah you can't put that there think of the dustmite's feelings that's his turf. This is the type of game that should just let me place it wherever I want, if it's clipping idc it's my room it doesn't effect anyone but me it doesn't unbalance the game just lemme clip all I want to!!! Let us hold a button to ignore this red ghost placement plz. 3) You're not allowed to place anything but games on the shelves and there are plenty of times I would like to use something to fill the shelf space. like the boombox. Or an amogus 4) Some shelves are very much not flush against the wall and the precise placement tool to do so has no microgrid and everything gets wonky REAL fast. 5) Some items, shelves especially, the black metal shelves especially especially, don't like being placed next to items without first being moved inside the hitbox of that item then out again. -Things I'd like to see 1) Shape tools. Let us use primitive shapes to build our own stuff, maybe even our own shelves. Workshop functionality on this one, please. 2) Model importing. Voices of the void's got model importing. I wanna put game models on shelves. 3) Modern furniture, I know the game's trying to capture the 90s aesthetic but they didn't have cyberpunk 2077 in the 90s, lemme put a flatscreen on the wall lol 4) Custom text. 5) Naming shelves, or some kind of signage 6) Add a toilet, preferably with a slot for a game, so I can put Ashen in the toilet where it belongs. But despite all this, the negative reviews here are kinda frustrating; you can't blame the sporting event for the rain, just like you can't blame them for a lack of a feature they literally had working and was forced to axe. Devs have said they're hopeful steam reconsiders one day and I agree, I hope so too, this game is too unique an idea to get downvoted for beaurocracy both unwanted and non-negotiable by the devs. I love the idea of this game, it's cheap, it's charming, it's pure nostalgia fumes going through my old games, and if some of these issues are fixed I'm coming back later for sure. But losing half my progress, with no promise that wasn't gonna happen again later, was a bit of a kick in the butt lol But big ups for the caves of qud mushroom I can place, i love caves of qud mushroom.

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Frequently Asked Questions

BOXROOM is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.

No, BOXROOM is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 7.99€ on Steam.

Yes, BOXROOM received 218 positive votes out of a total of 307 achieving a rating of 6.73.
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BOXROOM was developed by Nested Loop Studios and published by Pantaloon.

Yes, BOXROOM is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, BOXROOM is not playable on MacOS.

No, BOXROOM is not playable on Linux.

This information about BOXROOM is not available yet.

This information about BOXROOM is not available yet.

No, BOXROOM does not support VR.

BOXROOM is a single-player game.

No, BOXROOM does not currently offer any DLC.

Yes, BOXROOM is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

No, BOXROOM does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, BOXROOM is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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BOXROOM
Rating
6.7
218
89
Game modes
Features
Online players
7
Developer
Nested Loop Studios
Publisher
Pantaloon
Release 11 Jun 2026
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