The perfect game to play during your daily commute

This is the fourth game in the Boxboy/Boxgirl series and you don’t need to know any elaborate backstory: They’re boxes with legs and faces, and they have places to be. This game is a bargain of fun that’s both efficient and clever.

What the world needs is more good 2D platformers.

There’s such a wonderful, wholesome magic to solving puzzles using gendered boxes which can reproduce asexually.

While this is the fourth game in the Boxboy/Boxgirl series, you don’t need to know any elaborate backstory: They’re boxes with legs and faces, and they have places to be.

Although it’s a 2D platforming game on the console family that you most associate with Mario, your reflexes are no good here.

Boxboy is all about making you think, and you’re rewarded for managing to complete these puzzles using as few boxes as possible.

BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL! is a simple premise done well.

Whether you spend five minutes or five hours on a level (you probably won’t spend five hours on a level, it’s OK), it’s all about being as efficient and clever as you can.

The basic idea is that your box person comes to an obstacle, and then you must assess what configuration of boxes would be best to overcome this? Two to the right and then one up? Two up? One to the left? And then you must hurtle this useful creation at the problem until you can jump over it.

Just like life.

As you go on, the puzzles throw new problems and mechanics at you, but always at a pace that’s friendly to players of all abilities.

The game is fun whether you’re seven or 107 years old.

As this is Boxboy’s first adventure away from the 3DS, the graphics are expectedly a little richer, more defined.

It’s not Final Fantasy by any means, but it pulls off being played handheld or on a 75” TV quite nicely.

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Plus, whether you want to tackle the game in single player, or enjoy a co-op campaign, there’s really something for everyone from ages 7 — 107.

Bottom line: This would be a bargain of fun at twice the price. But, if you’re unsure, there’s a free demo that will sell you on its virtues. This is the perfect game for commuting.

BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!

Overall: 4.5/5

Available now on: Nintendo Switch

Price: $15.95

Out now.