Comparison

Pushbox Lite vs Sokoban 3D

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pushbox Lite

Features
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Push, Plan, Perfect! Challenge your mind with PushBox Lite, the addictive puzzle game where you push boxes to their targets. This modern take on the classic Sokoban puzzle will test your spatial reasoning and strategic planning skills through increasingly challenging levels.

About

Sokoban 3D

This 3D puzzle game challenges you to push crates onto designated spots. It features over 400 levels, unlockable characters, and adjustable camera angles. Earn hints and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Classic Sokoban gameplay
  • Hundreds of 3D levels
  • Unlockable characters
  • Adjustable camera angles
  • Hint system
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Sokoban is the warehouse-puzzle classic invented by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1981. One rule, no exceptions: push every crate onto a glowing mark. You can never pull. A wrong step at the start can wedge a crate into a corner ten moves later. Simple, brutal, endlessly satisfying. This build reimagines the original in full real-time 3D and ships with all 493 levels of David W. Skinner's legendary Microban collection — four chapters of tiny maps engineered to wring the most from the fewest tiles. Every level. Every chapter. Work through Microban I, II, III and IV from the opening tutorial up to expert. Completion, best-time and best-pushes stats for every level. Unlock the next as soon as you solve the current. Characters to earn as you play Thirteen playable characters, from the cheerful hard-hat miner you start with to a rolling orb, a waddling penguin, a tiny T-rex, a forklift, a mech, a ninja, an astronaut, a wizard and a knight. Browse them on an interactive 3D carousel where every figure stands on its own pedestal and spins into view as you swipe. Designed for fingers, not pixels Big D-pad with a full swipe fallback. Pick whether the controls sit on the left or the right of the screen. Undo your last three moves with a single tap. Restart the level the moment you realise you've bricked it. Stuck? Earn a super hint. Every ten completed levels awards one super hint. Tap the wand and the built-in BFS solver searches up to 300,000 push-states, finds the optimum, and watches the character walk the solution for you. The level still unlocks the next. See the board the way you like it Four perspective angles from top-down to steep isometric, plus a pure-orthographic 2D mode for players who prefer flat puzzles. Rotate the entire board in ninety-degree increments without remapping your controls. Hide the HUD with one tap when you want the level to breathe. Built for phones and tablets Portrait and landscape on iPhone. Large-title navigation, system backgrounds and Apple-native settings on iPad. The game remembers your in-progress level exactly where you left it — moves, pushes, elapsed time, undos remaining — and resumes the moment you reopen the app. 60 achievements Common milestones for completing 5, 10, 25 levels, epic medals for clean pushes and speed solves, legendary badges for perfecting every level or finishing every expert puzzle under a minute, and hidden secrets for the curious. Live progress Completion percentage, perfect solves, fewest-moves averages, push efficiency and a per-chapter completion chart on a dedicated stats screen. Watch your numbers climb as you finish more puzzles. Technology Built with SwiftUI and SceneKit. Crates, walls, characters and goal tiles are procedurally textured — no pre-baked assets. Click, push, step and win sounds are generated in real-time. The super-hint solver runs on a background task so the main thread never stutters. Credits Sokoban — "warehouse keeper" — was invented by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1981 and first published in Japan by Thinking Rabbit. The 493 levels in this build are the Microban I, II, III and IV sets by David W. Skinner, used with attribution.

Screenshots

Pushbox Lite4 screens
Sokoban 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pushbox Lite and Sokoban 3D are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pushbox Lite versus Sokoban 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPushbox LiteSokoban 3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLitao ChenViktor Grushevskiy

In-app purchases

None

Pushbox Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Sokoban 3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pushbox Lite free?
Pushbox Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sokoban 3D free?
Sokoban 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pushbox Lite or Sokoban 3D have ads?
Neither Pushbox Lite nor Sokoban 3D shows ads.

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