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Life & fun · January 24, 2021

Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world

A Sokoban-style puzzle game on a hyperbolic plane with a vaporwave aesthetic

Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world launched on January 24, 2021 with 184 votes, #135 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Sokyokuban is a puzzle game that places traditional block-sliding mechanics in a non-Euclidean environment. Players navigate spatial challenges where the rules of conventional geometry don't apply, creating unique puzzle scenarios. The game is designed for players interested in logic puzzles and experimental game design. It launched in January 2021 and offers an unconventional take on the classic sokoban puzzle genre by fundamentally altering the spatial rules governing how pieces move and interact.

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Sokyokuban is a variation of Sokoban , an iconic Japanese puzzle game from 1982. Rather than using the normal square tiling, Sokyokuban takes place on a hyperbolic plane. 双曲番 (sōkyoku-ban) is a pun on hyperbolic (双曲, sōkyoku) and Sokoban (倉庫番, sōko-ban). The game is written in PureScript . We render the hyperbolic plane on a HTML canvas 2D context using a Poincaré disk model . Since Poincaré coordinates are inconvenient to work with, we mostly use a Minkowski hyperboloid model internally. All puzzles use a {4,5} tesselation of the hyperbolic plane. We also implemented other tesselations and although there are some interesting properties to be explored, we found {4,5} to be vastly more fun…from sokyokuban.com

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