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Patrick's Parabox on Steam

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A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Patrick's Parabox is a puzzle, sokoban and logic game developed and published by Patrick Traynor.
Released on March 29th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 4,988 reviews of which 4,938 were positive and 50 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.83€ on Eneba.


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Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Patrick's Parabox:

UI Subtitle Audio
English
German
French
Italian
Korean
Spanish - Spain
Simplified Chinese
Russian
Japanese
Portuguese - Brazil

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 250 MB available space
MacOS
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 250 MB available space
Linux
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 250 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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18 hours played
Sept. 2026
This game is so remarkable. The simplicity of its game mechanics, which it gradually introduces at an excellent pace, and the beauty of the logical implications that follow from them form an elegance that I am yet to observe perfected to this degree in any other game. After each set of puzzles, when a new game mechanic is presented to raise what can be done to a new level, I find myself astounded at the cleverness that just keeps on surprising me. I am over 200 puzzles in, captivated, and have thus far never found myself in frustration. This game is very entertaining for anyone with an interest in puzzles. It performs very well, too. There have been no bugs of any kind. 10 out of 10 experience
9 hours played
July 2026
A deceptively simple, yet incredibly challenging game. I love the puzzle design.
29 hours played
June 2026
In the credits, Patrick's Parabox thanks 3 games: Stephen's Sausage Roll, The Witness, and Recursed. Name-dropping, no doubt, to be uttered in the same breath as those classics. With The Witness's boxy learn-through-tinkering level design, Stephen's Sausage Roll's title and acid-trip sokoban, and Recursed's, well, recursion, it resembles all three while never achieving the difficulty, intricacy, or greatness of any of them. But it's good. Arguably, very good. It also has, far and away, the shallowest learning curve I've ever experienced in a puzzle game. Each new mechanism is introduced with multiple simple levels that wordlessly scream: "Use the cool new thing this way! Oh, you want to explore its power? Too bad, I said THIS WAY!" Such hand-holding goes a long way toward explaining how the puzzle count lurches past 300 levels. It admirably explores just about every mechanism that might precipitate from the elevator pitch: "recursive sokoban." (Especially clever is how the game addresses the tricksy concept of infinity.) For most any game, 300+ levels would be overkill, but so many of these are painless procedural primers that the few interesting optional challenge levels in each section are the only ones that take any time or effort. The real joy for me came after the credits. There, the game drops a giant set of true challenge puzzles along with a couple of alternate-universe areas that ask, "What if we had implemented physics like this instead?" At long last, all my puzzle-loving completionist pleasures were piqued. It finally lets the game stop teaching and start showing off. Worth the wait, absolutely, but I'd rather not have waited at all. 7.5/10
34 hours played
May 2026
This is is probably one of the hardest puzzle games I ever play, if not the hardest (excluding baba is you) It's a brilliant game that makes you explore every gameplay mechanic out of the idea of "Sokoban with recursion and portals" and even more It's a hard game but a very satisfying one, especially when you start to fully understand the mechanics, but I recommend you play another game that introduces recursion, portal and general non euclidian levels, games like Portal, Manifold Garden or Superliminal just for you to get how the main mechanic on this game works
12 hours played
May 2026
It's a Sokoban-like, except it recurses. You can go into smaller blocks. The same block might exist in multiple places. You can create infinities. Fun! Of course, with mechanics as strange as that, it takes quite some brain power to wrap your head around it. Fortunately, the game is very generous with introductory levels. Maybe a little too generous; many of the hard stuff are saved at the end in challenge levels. But it means many people can play the game and see how far they can understand the mechanics before things go really weird. While it's still ultimately a Sokoban, the puzzles tend to be small and compact, so the execution is not terrible. If you like puzzle games with strange mechanics, this is well worth to explore.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Patrick's Parabox is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

No, Patrick's Parabox is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox received 4,938 positive votes out of a total of 4,988 achieving an impressive rating of 9.52.
😍

Patrick's Parabox was developed and published by Patrick Traynor.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.

No, Patrick's Parabox does not support VR.

Patrick's Parabox is a single-player game.

Yes, there is a DLC available for Patrick's Parabox. Explore additional content available for Patrick's Parabox on Steam.

No, Patrick's Parabox does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Patrick's Parabox does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Patrick's Parabox 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.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Patrick's Parabox.

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Steam reviews 19 October 2026 05:55 UTC

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Patrick's Parabox
Rating
9.5
4,938
50
Game modes
Features
Online players
25
Developer
Patrick Traynor
Publisher
Patrick Traynor
Release 29 Mar 2022
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