Wonderbox: The Adventure Maker

released on Apr 02, 2021

Creating and exploring are the essence of Wonderbox, an action-adventure game set in beautiful dioramas. Discover this ever-expanding universe with your friends and family, where you can make and share your own adventures.


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This game is being sold as an adventure maker that also has something to offer for players (instead of makers) in the form of campaign. Campaign mode has 6 adventures excluding the tutorial one. I made it to the third adventure with medium difficulty and I feel like I’ve seen all that I can expect.

I don’t think those adventures are good enough for solo players. They’re kind of a demonstration of what you can make. They’re nothing substantial. The NPC seem to be re-using the same dialogues throughout the adventures, the plots are generic, nothing that you find is kept permanently, the gameplay is basic and similar to Zelda games etc.

I was still planning on continuing despite all that I’ve mentioned. I liked the idea of playing simple adventures in bite sized form to kill some time in between. The game also looks very beautiful and the environments feel lively. One major issue is the camera movement and perspective. You’re playing inside a box kind of like Captain Toad on the Wii U. You have to rotate the camera often because your view is constantly compromised. It became tiring dealing with this. I don’t remember having this problem with Captain Toad, so it must have something to do with the way the levels are designed.

The building part and the community around it looks very impressive from an outsider’s perspective. The game is worth giving a try if you care about those aspects. Don’t bother if you’re only in it for the official campaign made by the developer.