BoxPop: From the Makers of SongPop

Remember that time you couldn’t stop playing Name That Tune? Except it wasn’t called Name That Tune; it was called SongPop, and it was the most clicked app icon you had for at least a solid month.

FreshPlanet, the team behind 2012’s hum-worthy sensation, have just revealed their next game: BoxPop. A puzzle game about the L-shaped movement of a Knight.

If that last sentence sounds terribly confusing, you’ve never played Chess. BoxPop is a puzzle game built around that single style of movement, challenging players to “pop” every “box” on a grid, moving only in a L. Once a box is popped, it disappears from the grid, limiting the squares you can move to.

This sounds exactly like that “simple mechanic/impossible challenge” combo that often does so well on the App Store, and FreshPlanet are no strangers to the #1 spot. Don’t be surprised if you see this one topping charts later this week. BoxPop has a release date of this Thursday, August 21st.

Jim Squires

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Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.