Pack my LunchBox

Pack my LunchBox is a cozy puzzle game about assembling bento boxes. Each level presents a short note describing a customer’s cravings, and your task is to choose a combination of main dishes, desserts, drinks, and snacks that satisfy those preferences.

The game contains 50 levels with a steady difficulty curve. The first 25 combine only main courses and desserts, allowing more flexibility in what qualifies as a correct solution. The latter half introduces snacks and drinks, significantly narrowing the valid combinations and making the puzzles more restrictive. Furthermore, the developers announced their plans on adding 20 more levels, which will feature a brand new mechanic: a double lunchbox.

For the most part, the customer notes are clear and easy to interpret, especially in the first half of the game. With only two dishes to select, these early levels leave plenty of room for experimentation. In the second half, the notes become slightly more vague.

To help players identify dishes, the game includes a compendium of food items that displays each dish’s name together with its picture. While this doesn’t explicitly list ingredients, most can be reasonably deduced from the item names themselves. This addition makes it easier to distinguish between similar-looking foods, such as different meat cuts or pies, and reduces the amount of blind trial and error required. For those that might need help solving a certain level, a guide that shows one valid solution (out of many) for each level is available. Fortunately, such problematic moments are rare. I found myself seriously stuck on only five levels.

Pack my LunchBox is thoroughly charming. The food art is gorgeous and genuinely appetizing—enough to make you drool over them even on a full stomach. With a wide variety of dishes to sift through and a short playtime (under 90 minutes), Pack my LunchBox is a pleasant, bite-sized experience. If you’re curious, the 5-level demo is worth checking out, as four of its levels are exclusive and don’t appear in the full game.