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BOXROOM
Developer Nested Loop Studios
BOXROOM allows you to design, define and decorate a room - a sanctuary - for your Steam library, and then revel in the organisation of your game collection. From the Steam store page
261 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
157 positive · 68 negative
95% range 63–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 157 | 68 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 0 | 26 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
185 of 262 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
70% recommend · 149 yes, 65 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 214 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (230 of 328 positive).
Many note that the game is in early access with bugs and limited features. [1][2][3] Some reviewers are frustrated by the need for manual cover art downloads or third-party tools. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [5]
I was really really looking forward to this. I love the idea of building up the perfect room for my game collection but unfortunately you are expected to add the covers and art for every game in your library manually. There is a tool on Itch.io from the developer to do this for you but it unfortunately doesn't work. It didn't even detect a third of my game library and I am not willing to put in the time to add art …
- [14]
I really really wish I could give this game a recommendation, but in the current state I cannot. I can live with having to go out and download a separate application to pull art for my library, but what I can't stand is that after over 6 hours of organizing my library alphabetically on the shelves, I saved and reloaded the game only for 4/5 of them to disappear in a seemingly random order. I'll revisit the game once …
- [18]
There are so many valid reasons to leave a negative review, instead every review rags on the game for something that was entirely out of the developers control that they literally implemented and were told to take it out. You need the BoxRoom Wizard and the game will pull all your game boxart with no further effort or input. YES it should be in the game; it literally was but Steam told them to take that out so it's …
- [2]
Let me start by saying, even thoguh I put I reccomond this game, I don't reccomend buying this game right now. I like the idea but needs some fixes. Because it is so new, Id wait it out to see what is done to the game. Here is a more in detail review. I love the idea, that was why I bought it, but the execution could be better. Sometimes I can't place items down even when there is clearly space and nothing blocking …
- [9]
I have autism so i like sorting things out Runs well, couple of bugs but the core gameplay still works, really fun & relaxing game Really cool game
Summarised from 34 of the 248 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
70% of the 214 Steam reviewers we collected recommend BOXROOM. The complaint that keeps coming up: manual cover art download is tedious without third-party tools. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 261 · most liked firstThere are so many valid reasons to leave a negative review, instead every review rags on the game for something that was entirely out of the developers control that they literally implemented and were told to take it out. You need the BoxRoom Wizard and the game will pull all your game boxart with no further effort or input. YES it should be in the game; it literally was but Steam told them to take that out so it's just not a valid reason to negative review the game, like complaining about the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BOXROOM is a game that will display your actual personal Steam library of games as physical games in a room you can fully curate and decorate. Wonderful stuff. (Wishlist it on Steam)
positive · AI labelView post →I was intrigued by the idea of having my game collection being in a physical-ish form, and the game does that, but in a very basic way. It pulls your library from steam profile and have give each of them a box for you to grab and put on shelf, as well as add screenshots as content inside the box and launch the actual game from it (cool but not practical). Now as much as I hate give it a negative review, I feel like it's fair for its current state. Edit: There is a small app that downloads…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was genuinely excited for Box Room, expecting it to become my go-to virtual game room where I could display my Steam library and create my dream gaming space. Unfortunately, the reality was incredibly disappointing. Customization is also extremely limited. There are only a handful of furniture items, paint colours, carpets, and decorations, and most of them feel uninspired. For a game that’s supposed to be about creativity and building your perfect gaming room, the lack of options is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sad to see this has been downvoted to mixed. I only just opened the game so I can't speak too much but genuinely, I am sold on the idea. My brother released a game solo on Steam and when I pulled it from the box, there was a bit of an awe moment because I wasn't really thinking about it. His name is on the bottom right corner of the case as the developer. Opened it, looked at the game cartridge, closed it and then put it in the top corner of a bookshelf. I was like, ♥♥♥♥ yeah. That's the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boxroom is an upcoming home designer game that turns your actual Steam library into physical game boxes you can browse and arrange on your shelves. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/boxroom...
neutral · AI labelView post →'Boxroom' is a new game which takes your Steam library and turns them into "physical" game boxes. You can arrange them in shelves and browse through your collection. youtu.be/Ma5wnXOI1C4 www.videogameschronicle.com/news/boxroom...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was really really looking forward to this. I love the idea of building up the perfect room for my game collection but unfortunately you are expected to add the covers and art for every game in your library manually. There is a tool on Itch.io from the developer to do this for you but it unfortunately doesn't work. It didn't even detect a third of my game library and I am not willing to put in the time to add art to all the games. It sucks because I really wanted to dive in and create my games…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So you'll detect my entire Steam library but then expect me to download each titles cover art myself? Are you kidding me? The amount of hours that it would take to get this into what it claims to be out of the box is mind boggling. 0/10 unless they auto detect and grab the cover art for your games. This seems like something that should have been figured out before early access.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires substantial qualify of life and functionality improvements. If you have a big library of games you're going to be spending a long time carrying them to your shelves one at a time. The companion software that scrapes for the metadata for your game boxes mostly only works for games already on your shelf, which is a bit annoying. You can't search for specific games if you want to set up a more focused physical library. I'm going to keep it though because I think the potential is obvious…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BOXROOM is a clever casual room builder to give your Steam games a shelf #BOXROOM #IndieGames #PCGaming #Steam
neutral · AI labelView post →I really really wish I could give this game a recommendation, but in the current state I cannot. I can live with having to go out and download a separate application to pull art for my library, but what I can't stand is that after over 6 hours of organizing my library alphabetically on the shelves, I saved and reloaded the game only for 4/5 of them to disappear in a seemingly random order. I'll revisit the game once there's been a few more updates, but for the time being imma give this a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanna enjoy this game, but the Wizard tool provided to make it possible and easy to pull screenshots and capsule art from your library does not work on Linux/Steamdeck. even attempting to use it through Proton or Wine. Was so excited to play this, but its way too much of a hassle to manually get art and screenshots of every single game i have, and it kills my enjoyment :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend this game because it heavily pivots on the ability to create your own space, but the building is extremely limited. Here's just a few of the problems I encountered: The build area is constrained, you may have an idea of how you want multiple interconnected rooms and hallways but you quickly end up hitting a dead end you can never build past. There is no verticality to the builds. You can't expand up or down or have any kind of height change. No sloped ceilings,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →absolutely worth it, this will be so nice with more updates down the line! people complain about not much to do in this "game" but thats pretty much the point - it is a virtual game library for you to create and launch games from to get all the game art you need the box wizard from itch -> https://pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom-box-wizard since they had to remove the ingame function after valve said NOPE. at first it didnt find all my games for the art download but after placing some of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →📦 It's difficult to give a rational assessment right now, as it's clearly in Early Access. If you don't enjoy immersing in editors, designing environments, and sorting your things, then this is definitely not for you. The game currently offers a fairly average (for the genre) selection of design solutions. There are some strange limitations, furniture is glitchy, placement requires direction guidance, while items require collisions fixes and placing objects on N surfaces corrections. 📢 COVERS…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a great idea, and i look forward to it being improved in the future, but i dont recommend buying it until it gets into a less buggy state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Clostest we're going to get to physical ownership in the 21st century
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game I really do. But it has too many problems holding it back. Every time I load into the game, multiple games get removed from my shelves for no reason and I have to physically put them back in. Not to mention some of my posters and rugs being turned back to the default image instead of whatever cover I left on them. I am also experiencing the very common issue of boxart not appearing on certain games and not every game from my library being available to display in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the demo was amazing, the box arts and screenshots were pulled directly from steam, but now having to manually download each picture is kind of meh. Also not being able to see half the games that are in my library because they are in the steam family is also another thing i would like to see fixed in the future. game has promise though, very well optimized. UPDATE theyve added steam family games, there is a really easy software to download cover arts 11/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you missed it yesterday, we’ve just announced BOXROOM - a game about curating, arranging and displaying your *actual* Steam Library. store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/... #indiegames | #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I will come back to this one day but in its current state it feels clunky. Snapping made me feel frustrated and there isn't really a lot of options for furniture.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me start by saying, even thoguh I put I reccomond this game, I don't reccomend buying this game right now. I like the idea but needs some fixes. Because it is so new, Id wait it out to see what is done to the game. Here is a more in detail review. I love the idea, that was why I bought it, but the execution could be better. Sometimes I can't place items down even when there is clearly space and nothing blocking it, for example, I couldn't place a stapler on my desk even though the only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game whose whole selling point is organising your library, actually organising it is the part that fights you hardest. I can't choose what goes in, I can't take anything out, the games box hands them over in no order I can follow, and half of mine had no box art until I found out from a forum thread that there's a separate tool for that. The Steam Family I'm in adds 366 games I never asked for and can't remove, so my own collection is buried somewhere in the middle of them. The building…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I REALLY wanted to like and enjoy this game, but there are just too many things ruining the game for me in its current state. Firstly, trying to get game box art is way more difficult than it should be, I appreciate the app the devs made to try and help with this, but if you have a reasonably sized library (anything over I'd guess 500) the odds of the game locating the box art are slim. I spent my entire play time hoping it would eventually get to the letter M and never did grab MK1's art for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was very excited for something like this but having to have all the box art/game art on my computer to make it look like it does in the videos is very misleading. Very neat idea but for what this currently does you could pretty much do in any building game you already own without spending the money on it. If someone were to find a way to do it fully without having to download thousands of images it would be very cool. However with what Boxroom currently does and offers it is not worth it at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Obviously this is the closest thing we're getting to an actual "physical" library and it needs a few workarounds to get all the cover arts and everything automatically. For early access this is HUGE, bless the devs and the community for the tools.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Years of Humble Bundle purchases have finally caught up with me. Organising this library is my new life-long project and I couldn't be happier
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably one of the most creative games I have seen on Steam: a fully customizable and usable catalog decoration and play system. It lets you truly appreciate all the games you have played or have yet to play. It gets massive updates and QOL every 2ish months and tons of features! 10/10! Nothing else like it. Ps: If you want all of your game screenshots and tile cards/images preuploaded instead of manually, use Box Wizard to upload all game art.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I really would love to recommend this game, i would, i really would. But at the current moment its still too buggy. If i close the game and reload the save, it cant keep the collection on the shelves. It also cant seem to keep box art on the boxes even if I use the tool they developed, Which also seems odd that its not a part of the game settings, but if they haven't figured out a way to incorporate it at least it exists. update 7/20/26: Still a negative review sadly, but for a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game about showing off your Steam library, you'd think having box art would be one of the most important things in the game. But despite the promotional material proudly showing all the cool virtual game boxes, they expect you to do the work of adding images to the boxes yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only reason I don't recommend this game is because it's not seeing my full library. I've set my game details to public, but all of my Idle games aren't even showing up even after several restarts
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's cool, it won't make it easier to go through your library and most thing you'll have to do manually, it is very limited by the fact that is a steam game (so it has to follow steam rules on the way to do things), but still the amount of tools and customization makes it fun to just, make a room or place and decorate it however much you want. You don't even need to fill it with games from steam even, you can import music, videos and programs too, if you are willing to give it the time. Might…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This a very interesting game. I like it. Somethings I would like to see added to this game to make it more interactive. Developers please feel free to take these ideas. :) -Trading cards from the steam library. Able to display them. -Achievements from the steam account. -Trophy displays cases, so players can show off their 100 present completed games to friends. -The ability to go on steam, discord and the internet in side the game itself. -A projector, this would be link to the computer. So…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disclaimer: I haven't dug into it yet to see which ones are good or available to the public. Looks like the one pictured above was a project called Hall of Games, but they were only up for a few months and then shut down in October.  I'm seeing lots of personal projects (no doubt people vibe-coding for fun). [Here's…
neutral · AI labelView post →With over 500 Games in my library, and no way to search for games that I actually want to display, it's a nightmare. Not only that, but I can't even find out if any of the games I want to display have any unique items as this title suggests. I expected most of them not to, because how could a game account for all of them, but the absolute insanity that you have to go through just to find out if any 1 game in your catalog has anything, is honestly far too time consuming. I was excited for this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the concept of the game but to use external apps for everything is really bad. My problem is that it's not grabbing only games that you have it pulls from tools to even games that you have hidden and set to private to even games that you have removed from your library this is really not fun. I want everything to be clean but it's just a mess I do not recommend it until that problem is fix
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BOXROOM is a clever casual room builder to give your Steam games a shelf https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/boxroom-is-a-clever-casual-room-builder-to-give-your-steam-games-a-shelf/ #BOXROOM #IndieGames #PCGaming #Steam
neutral · AI labelView post →Revising to reflect the second update, editing my original review as the content updates happen: The game is in early release. There are bugs, but they are not surmountable. There is a "modern" update now that has a selection of "newer" things, but certainly through a specific cultural lens. This update has made the navigation a little rougher, as it is in a new catalog. You navigate between catalogs to find things like furniture paint, furniture pieces, lamps, etc. The slightly clunky vibes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to enjoy this but starting straight off the camera was buggy as hell because the game lags when using a mouse with a polling rate of like 8K.. Once it was fixed the fact that you have to watch like 10 seconds of unskippable animations to get any furniture of the catalogue pages being flipped just kills it especially considering the furniture is split between like 4 different catalogues so scrolling through to find something you like takes forever. also yes there is cover art for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is jittery, has constant screen tearing and is nauseating to look at; disabling fish eye lens, increasing fov, enabling vsync and limiting fps does not fix it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately too buggy, restrictive and tedious to actually do what you want to do with it. The potential is still there to have a great little tool, but a lot needs to change. Myself and others I've seen have tried to carve out a room and then add doors, only to find out you need to add doors to walls and ending up with this weird double door into a room type thing that is basically random chance to delete.. Fish eye was added and made default for some weird reason The games now don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update 14/06/2026: Refund has been accepted for those that feel that going over the 2 hr mark may stop them from getting one. I just told Steam about everything below and they accepted after a couple days. I was really excited for this and have been waiting a while for it. The game launched, and i faced a bug where i couldn't do anything so i had to restart the game, but otherwise zero issues. I was a little bit annoyed that the biggest feature, posters and steam covers was not going to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An incredible premise with incredible promise that's unfortunately held back by the game itself: the game is entirely about organizing and creating a space, but the UI/UX constantly makes it difficult to do just that. For example, they hide all the furniture, designs, etc. behind multiple magazine catalogues, which is a neat idea in theory, but forces the player to flip through pages and drag items to a hotbar rather than just having a dedicated build function. And here we are, about 2 weeks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game doesn’t work unless you download a mod that is not included in steam or with the game and even if you get things working the cover designs do not show. I would not recommend this simulation unless your looking to do room designs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know what I love doing, spending a couple hours setting up a room. Then a couple days later loading it up and not all the box art is loading back in and its loading duplicates in. Demo was very good and polished, full game not even remotely. The external cover downloading tool I guess I get, but idk this feels way more janky than the demo and things you would have thought would have been ironed out months ago are now in a buggy alpha state yet again. This game has been such a disappointment…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have autism so i like sorting things out Runs well, couple of bugs but the core gameplay still works, really fun & relaxing game Really cool game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An upcoming game turns your Steam library into physical boxes BOXROOM is a room decoration simulator that converts your digital PC games into 3D boxes you can put on a shelf. #Retro #indiegames #steam #simulation #pcgaming
neutral · AI labelView post →With Boxroom on Steam, you can display your steam collection. What are your favorite adult games you want to display? How grumpy are that @hanakox.bsky.social's game Actual Roommates doesn't show up? #indiegames #nsfw
neutral · AI labelView post →the fact it doesnt automatically grab the box art and screenshots from your library is absolutely unacceptable in my opinion for a paid product that advertises being a virtual game collection builder, im not paying for a game to not have it do the most basic thing that it should do, doing it manually is an incredible chore that im not going through, i mean ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kinito.pet does this automatically as just a little side piece at the end of that game come onnnnn i was so excited for this i…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OFFBEAT salutes our cousins in the BOXROOM! Soon, every game will have a seven-letter all-caps title. Hype to see that it's coming out!
neutral · AI labelView post →BOXROOM puts your actual Steam library on virtual shelves that you can arrange, decorate and even launch your games from! More here: covergeek.com/boxroom-game... @pantaloon.io
neutral · AI labelView post →New is the new old! The Modern Catalogue arrives in BOXROOM, bringing with it curved monitors, gamer chairs and RGB lights. We’ve also added the Mod catalogue and a slew of other fixes and QOL improvements. Go make a sanctuary for your game collection. store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Was enjoying it, even after having to find out you need a wizard to get the cover art. However after 6 hours of laying out nearly a thousand games, all the shelfs were missing huge chucks of the games. After that I lost all desire to even play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your thinking of buying this game wait a littlebit its got minimal things to do only placeing and organizing to have game cover art u need an extension i can boot my games from this but its just faster to boot them up normaly i had no bugs just feels boring overall this game is meh
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →genuinely I wanted this game to be good,, and I tried hard to ignore the steam reviews but they are right. It might be early access but they promise too much without much deliver. Such as the various videos online that say "you can play a game within a game!!" only to realize its not a cool system where I play on the ingame monitor or something, its literally like a hub in a game where you pick something and then sends you off to play the actual game. Another heavy complaint about this game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lovely little game if you're looking to just chill out and build a comfy space to show all your games off in :) There were some changes from demo for getting box art into the game but there are some nice community tools already to make it all easier!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely only have one problem with this, and its the fact that cover arts just don't work. This one problem completely ruins the immersion and it sucks man
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has an incredible amount of potential for just being in early access. I got lost flipping through the catalogs, turning over the game cartridges to read the backs, and decorating the perfect cozy room. It took me back to a simpler time, a slower time, when life wasn't so demanding. I enjoyed my time playing in just the first three hours. Yes, there are bugs, but I expected as much since again, it is still an early access game. So excited to see what the future holds for Boxroom. Keep…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just needs more options added, like dining tables and chairs. More tv options would be cool too, or maybe a projector or something. A fish tank would also be really cool I think it would be awesome if you could watch videos inside your room. This game is allowing me to create my own cozy gamer spot exactly the way I want it, and it's been a joy so far. I am a little confused on the negative reviews with less than an hour of playtime. This game is exactly what is advertised, there is no story…
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