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Box Loader Shooter

Sort the boxes. Survive the alarm.

🧩 GENRE COLLISION: warehouse sorting puzzle × top-down horror shooter

🎮 How to Play

1. PICK UP — Find a crate and pick it up with E / Space.
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2. MATCH — Carry it to the platform that matches its type.
3. SORT — You have 60 seconds. Sort as many crates as you can.
4. SURVIVE — When the alarm starts, unsorted crates become monsters. Grab your loot and fight.
Simple rule: sort crates before the timer hits zero. The better you sort, the better prepared you'll be for the fight.
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You're the night loader at Cube Logistics Industries. You have 60 seconds to pick up crates and deliver them to the matching marked platforms: weapons to the armory, medkits to the medical bay, monsters to the cage.

Sort well and the warehouse pays you in gear, ammo and points.

Then the clock hits zero. Daylight dies. Sirens scream. Red strobes take over.

Every crate you didn't sort explodes — and something crawls out.

⚠ The Shift

1. SORT — 60 seconds. Carry crates to the matching platforms.
2. ALARM — Time's up. Sirens, red strobes, lights out.
3. RESOLVE — Sorted crates drop real loot on the floor: ammo, medkits and guns. Grab it before the monsters get to you.
4. SHOOT — Fight reinforced waves with three weapons and several monster types.
5. SWITCH — Flip every switch to open the exit portal.
6. ESCAPE — Reach the portal. Then do it again on a new floor plan.

📦 Sort or Suffer

Weapon crates Armory platform → guns and ammo drop when the alarm hits.
Health crates Medical platform → medkits drop for the fight.
Monster crates Cage platform → contained. Miss it and it won't be.
Mystery crates (?) Nobody knows what's inside. Put one on any platform and see what falls out. Could be a gun. Could be a monster.
Unsorted crates Explode when the alarm sounds. A monster comes out.

Loot is physical: it lands on the floor and you have to pick it up. Out of ammo? Pistol-whip them.

🎮 Controls

WASD / Arrows Move
E / Space Pick up / drop / interact
Mouse Aim
Left Click Shoot
R
Q		 Reload
Change weapon
H Use medkit
P Pause

Best played with a mouse and keyboard, in fullscreen, with sound on. Turn the volume up. Trust me.

⚡ Features

  • 60 seconds of frantic sorting, then a full top-down shooter in the same warehouse
  • 5 levels, each with its own layout, and difficulty that keeps climbing
  • 3 weapons with different damage, fire rate and spread
  • Several monster types and reinforced waves
  • Physical loot: pick up your ammo, medkits and guns before you need them
  • Mystery crates: risk it on any platform for a jackpot, or a very bad surprise
  • A proper alarm sequence: sirens, red strobes, lights out, emergency lamps along the walls
  • Sci-fi horror comedy in a clean industrial style
  • Runs right in your browser. No download, no install

👤 About the Developer

Made by Arcanum's Beard for the Bezi Mega Jam. Built with HTML in the browser, so you can play it anywhere. If you enjoyed the shift, a rating or a comment makes my day.

🎮 More games: itch.io/arcanums-beard
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