What is The box is Alive About?

In this physics-based 3D platformer, you control a package that’s on a journey to deliver itself!

Inspired by I Am Bread and Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the game features a deliberately complex movement system that makes you think outside the box.

A shipping box, from the 3D platforming game The Box is Alive, is shown jumping from a tiled floor to the top of a metal shelf stacked with other boxes.

Master the controls And reach your final destination.

  • Navigate tricky physics and winding levels.

  • Roll, jump, and flap past obstacles and hazards.

  • Escape the shipping facility and enter the unknown!

Interior of a 3D rendered warehouse from the first level of The Box is Alive. The warehouse has high metal ceiling, shelves filled with wooden crates, a conveyor belt, pallets, a small stage, and safety lights along walls.

But something lurks beneath this silly premise…

  • What happened to the humans who packed you?

  • Why did the shipping facility suddenly shut down?

  • And…why does it feel like you’re being watched?

The sewer level from The Box is Alive, depicting a flooded environment with a cardboard box sitting on a floating, wooden platform. The background features a dark tunnel entrance, other floating platforms, and water flowing out from a pipe.

Where Can I Get The Box is Alive?

The Box is Alive is our first game and still in development. Our Kickstarter was 320% funded, but the journey is far from over. Help us expedite the process:

  • Wishlist The Box is Alive on Steam and download our demo!

  • Playtest and leave feedback on the game by joining the Ludocratic Games Discord!

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The cardboard box character from The Box is Alive, leaping into the air with it's flaps open. The box has various shipping labels, stickers, and instructions on it's surface.

Development Gallery

  • Multiple angles of a box character, from the indie game The Box is Alive, squashing itself against the ground before folding itself back up.
  • A package, from the game The Box is Alive, sitting in an alley during the day. In the background are a recycling bin, traffic cone, dumpster, and red brick apartment building. A to-do list on the screen that says 'Go to the Red Building'.
  • Cutter, a brown rat enemy from the indie game The Box is Alive, performing a run cycle animation.
  • A cardboard box, from the 3D platformer The Box is Alive, sitting on a textured metallic floor. The package looks across a long, industrial room filled with pipes and flooded with bright, blue water.
  • A game level selection menu, from the The Box is Alive, designed to look like cardboard. The menu reads Boreal Warehouse and displays a photo of shelves and pallets, with a personal best time of 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
  • A cardboard box, from the indie game The Box is Alive, sleeping against a grey background, with a line of black Z's floating above it.
  • Company logo for Boreal Shipping Solutions with a stylized pine tree icon, a green employee ID badge with a profile silhouette, and a brochure with the same logo and brand colors.
  • A cartoonish, 3D model of a blue pigeon, an enemy from The Box is Alive, with it's wings outstretched across a black background.
  • The industrial warehouse level from the indie game The Box is Alive, showing conveyor belts, packaging equipment, and storage shelves, labeled as shipping zone.
  • A view from above of a conveyor belt in a warehouse, with the box character from The Box is Alive rolling across the belt into a room full of wooden palettes and industrial machinery.
  • Video game main menu screen titled "The Box is Alive" with options for Play, Level Select, Options, and Quit, set against an industrial background with a yellow robotic arm.

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