Plug & Play vs Boxville
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plug & Play
Experience a surreal interactive animation where you control a character's actions. Engage in a playful exploration of physics and abstract concepts through simple interactions like running, hitting, and plugging.
- Interactive animation
- Surreal gameplay
- Physics-based interactions
- Exploration of abstract concepts
- Short play session
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Explore the universe of Plug & Play, an interactive animation drawn by Michael Frei and coded by Mario von Rickenbach. An unashamedly surreal play with plugs. Run, hit, switch, fall, love, plug, pull. And push. • Nominated for the Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival 2015 Play time: between 10 – 15 minutes.
Boxville
This animated adventure puzzle game features speechless cans navigating a city of boxes. Solve logic puzzles and riddles, explore a charming world, and uncover the mystery behind earthquakes. Enjoy a unique audio-visual experience, playable solo or with a friend.
- Animated film and puzzle game hybrid
- Hand-drawn graphics and custom animations
- Environmental quests and logical puzzles
- Unique music for each scene
- Wordless communication via speech bubbles
- Playable solo or co-op
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Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together. Design The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure. The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options. Story Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll... Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville: - Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists. - Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction. - Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game. - Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game. - There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boxville at 4.7 against Plug & Play's 4.1. Boxville also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 63%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Plug & Play costs $3.99 and Boxville $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Boxville holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 547 and 772 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Plug & Play's written reviews are positive against 78% of Boxville's.
Plug & Play ships an update every 7 months, Boxville every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Plug & Play | Boxville |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (547 ratings) | 4.7 (772 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 547 | 772 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #72 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 237 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etter Studio GmbH | Triomatica Games |
Customer experience
Plug & Play
Boxville
User reviews
Plug & Play
From 547 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Beautiful game
- 🚀 Interesting experience
- 👍 Funny and entertaining
- 👍 Unique and creative
Room to improve
- 🐛 Too short
- 💰 Not worth the price
- 🤔 Confusing or weird
Boxville
From 772 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable puzzles
- 🎨 Beautiful art and animation
- 🎶 Lovely music
- 🧠 Challenging but logical puzzles
- 🤗 Charming characters and story
Room to improve
- 🕰️ Short game length
- 🔍 Tiny inventory items hard to see
- 🤯 Some puzzles too obscure
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🤖 Lack of hint system or ability to skip puzzles
Bugs and requests
Plug & Play
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game crashes or freezes
- Compatibility issues
Requested features
3 requests- More levels or content
- Longer gameplay
- Clearer story or message
Boxville
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress reset after updates
- Inventory items disappearing
- Puzzle mechanics not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Longer game with more content
- Ability to use stylus/Apple Pencil
- Improved save/load system
- In-game hints or ability to skip puzzles
In-app purchases
Plug & Play
No in-app purchases
Boxville
No in-app purchases









