White Box

White Box is a bizarre and interesting first-person puzzle game that challenges the players to think inside the box.

White Box is described by its developers from Jazzyman Studio as a first person physics game, and that would be a fair assessment although we haven’t met this description until now. The player is in some sort of a minimalistic world where strange things are happening.

The art direction for White Box is really interesting, and we haven’t seen this approach until now. Even if it seems way too simple, the gameplay is good enough to engage players even after a few minutes of action.

There is even a short story. You’re on a bus, with some other people, and you get into an accident. When you wake up, everyone is gone, and you later find that they have been killed. Then you start to suspect that a demon is behind this, and this is pretty much where I lost interest.

White Box was developed with the help of the Unity engine, but not the regular free version. In any case, the really simple graphics allowed the team to build some really big levels. You can move extremely far trough the levels, and you can even see the ceiling, albeit very far away.

Right from the beginning of the game, you start solving puzzle, which becomes more and more complicated. The fact that it’s described as a first person physics game is accurate since most of the puzzles requite some sort of manipulation of the environment.

The player also gets early on a small gun that shoots little cubes, which have mass that can displace other objects with their mass. It’s also possible to click with the mouse, on various objects, thus expanding the range of actions available to the player.

White Box is a free game, and its developers are now working on a Definitive Edition, which will be better in every aspect, although they haven’t said when they are going to launch it.

For now, you can download White Box and give it a try. It has a ton of levels, and it will take a while to finish it.