Sokoban

Sokoban (1990)

by Riverhillsoft
Genres:Puzzle
Game modes:Single player
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user avatar@thwidrauser avatar@thwidra
January 31, 2025
This is the first game I played in December 1990 (I think...) on a PC, the first time I sat in front of a PC. Eastern Germany just crashed, Germany got reunited, and a lot of schools got PCs, so people could learn on those machines. Before that only a few people in Eastern Germany got access to a PC.
user avatar@AlexMcHuser avatar@AlexMcH
February 09, 2025
This game comes back to my mind anytime someone tries to arrange things in a tight space and doesn't give themselves the space they need to keep rearranging... Seriously, this is a really good training opportunity for spacial housekeeping. You have boxes in a maze that need to be pushed into a specific pattern, but you can only push, not pull or otherwise drag, you can only push a single box, and you need to leave yourself enough space to move, too. Once a box is in a corner, it can never get out again, so think before you act. The difficulty levels were actually really well balanced and increasing slowly as they should, teaching you some tactics and strategy on the way. The game does this really well, even by 2024 standard (based on my own memory, at least). The only thing that could have been better would have been extending the mechanics by adding different types of boxes, walls/floor ... the final levels are pretty complex but still combinations of the methods you learned in the earlier ones. :)
user avatar@puvianiuser avatar@puviani
May 04, 2025
Sokoban was one of those seminal games that brought an entirely new and original concept to the gaming world, along with games like Tetris and Lemmings. It may not have been everyone's cup of tea (it was mine!), but it holds a special place in computer gaming history and belongs among GOG's classics.
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