Puzzle Box Palace

Puzzle Box Palace

SMU Guildhall · 2021 · Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Free to Play, Exploration

PC
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About Puzzle Box Palace

Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out. You find nostalgic letters from your grandfather throughout the puzzle box, reminiscing about your relationship with him as you navigate his last gift to you.

Puzzle Box Palace was developed by graduate students at SMU Guildhall over the course of approximately four months.

Key Features:
  • Five complete escape room style puzzle levels
  • Alternate solutions for you to find
  • 14 letters to collect
  • Puzzle box elements you can move and rotate
  • Light platforming sequences
  • Buttons, levers, a playable piano, and more!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended May 23, 2026
[h1] My mind is confused. It really get nuts so just follow your instincts. [/h1]
7 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 2, 2026
Here I will leave the cat, whoever pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up (I'm trying to get award) Have a nice day :3       />  フ       |  _  _ l       /` ミ_xノ      /      |     /  ヽ   ノ     │  | | |  / ̄|   | | |  | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__)  \二つ
3 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 4, 2026
A pretty [i] out-of-the-box [/i] type of puzzle game, if you know what I mean... Anyway, it's a pretty cool concept, making the rooms lift, turn, and twist to reach the end goal, and the story is, while short, also pretty sweet. Something that could've been done better, in my opinion, was the inventory. I feel like it would've been better as a hotbar. Also, the extra lever between the actual puzzle room and the previous one felt unnecessary (unless used as a loading zone). And the motion blur is nauseating.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 2, 2026
Short but enjoyable puzzle game. I like the puzzle box setting.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 27, 2026
Very fun, simplistic puzzle game with light platforming elements
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 7, 2026
A quiet, lovely little game. It took me about an hour to run through and I was struck by how touching it was. I found myself tearing up at the piano thinking about my own grandmother, thank you to this team for a beautiful little moment of a game.
1 found this helpful

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