Puzzle Box Palace
Released Jan 2021
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.
86% positive · 124 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Puzzle Box Palace is a student-developed game created by graduate students at SMU Guildhall over approximately four months. The store description explicitly describes a complete, self-contained package: five puzzle levels, 14 collectible letters, and a set of defined features. There is no mention of additional content, DLC, updates, or future plans. The developer has made no post-launch communications of any kind, and there are no DLC listings. This game launched on January 18, 2021 as a finished product with a fixed scope, and nothing from the developer suggests otherwise.
Evidence
Store description explicitly lists five complete puzzle levels and a defined feature set, developed over approximately four months as a student project. Language describes a self-contained, finished product with no mention of future updates or additional content.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
SMU Guildhall
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out. You find nostalgic letters from your grandfather throughout the puzzle box, reminiscing about your relationship with him as you navigate his last gift to you.
Puzzle Box Palace was developed by graduate students at SMU Guildhall over the course of approximately four months.
Key Features:
Puzzle Box Palace was developed by graduate students at SMU Guildhall over the course of approximately four months.
Key Features:
- Five complete escape room style puzzle levels
- Alternate solutions for you to find
- 14 letters to collect
- Puzzle box elements you can move and rotate
- Light platforming sequences
- Buttons, levers, a playable piano, and more!
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Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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