Soko-Ban

Sokoban ("warehouse keeper") is a is a classic puzzle game created in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and published in 1982 by Thinking Rabbit, a software house based in Takarazuka, Japan. In 1984 the ASCII Corporation published a version produced by Khaled Bentebal. It was the basis of numerous clones in the later years. It is set in a warehouse. On each level, the player must push crates (from square to square) to get them onto designated spots; once each crate is on a marked spot, the level is complete. Crates can only be pushed one at a time (so two crates next to each other cannot be pushed together), and cannot be pulled--so it's possible to get a crate stuck in a corner, where it cannot be retrieved! By the last levels, you must plan 40 steps in advance.

Released

1982 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

• Thinking RabbitDeveloper · Publisher
• Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.Publisher
• ASCII CorporationPublisher
• TTandyPublisher
• Sega Enterprises, Ltd.Publisher

• action-adventure
• archery
• backtracking
• boss fight
• bow and arrow
• campaign
• collectibles
• digital distribution
• fairy
• fast traveling
• female protagonist
• hidden room

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