Net Yaroze Month: Pandora’s Box

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

Pandora’s Box is another Yaroze game based on block-pushing game, Sokoban. But this time, it’s in 3D.

Being in 3D adds a few difficulties, such as not being able to see where your targets are very easily, but you can jump, which gives you a better view. Sadly you can’t jump over the crates.

The game has 15 levels, and you can choose to play any of them from the menu screen. It is accompanied by some piano music, which switches to a faster tune when you are running out of time, to add to the panic.

I like Sokoban games, but Pandora’s Box is one of those cases where just because you can make it 3D doesn’t necessarily make it better.

Game: Pandora’s Box
By: Christoph Luerig
Genre: Puzzle (Sokoban)
Available on Euro Demos: 45, 77, 92

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

Pandora’s Box pushes into No. 20

1. Time Slip
2. Blitter Boy
3. Rocks n Gems
4. Total Soccer Yaroze
5. Terra Incognita
6. Super Bub Contest
7. Robot Ron
8. Decaying Orbit
9. Psychon
10. INVS
11. Haunted Maze
12. Roller
13. Pushy IIB
14. Gravitation
15. Squeak
16. Adventure Game
17. Katapila
18. Sam the Boulderman
19. Pssst!
20. Pandora's Box
21. Game Involving Triangles
22. Yarozians
23. Tanx
24. PingPing
25. Opera of Destruction
26. Video Poker Simulator
27. Shroud
28. Between the Eyes
29. Bouncer 2
30. Yaroze Rally
31. Sphere
32. Blockz
33. Technical Demo
34. Surf Game

Still to play:​

• Pandora’s Box
• Down
• Snowball Fight
• Arena
• A Dog Tale
• Mah Jongg
• Samsaric Asymptotes
• Hover Car Racing
• Clone