Sokoban

1982

puzzle video game, sokoban video game

Developer

Thinking Rabbit

Publisher

Cozy Village

Platforms

Various

Game modes

single-player video game

Released

1982-01-01

Sokoban is a puzzle video game created in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi. In Sokoban, the player pushes boxes in a warehouse to get them onto storage locations. The game is viewed from a top-down perspective. Boxes can only be pushed, never pulled, and only one box can be pushed at a time. The principal challenge is planning moves correctly to avoid causing a deadlock, a situation where a box or the player becomes permanently trapped, making the puzzle unsolvable.

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