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Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.

Boson X is a difficult, action and arcade game developed by Ian MacLarty and Jon Kerney and published by Shape Shop.
Released on September 15th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,564 reviews of which 1,447 were positive and 117 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Boson X into these genres:

Difficult Action Arcade Runner Minimalist Parkour Science Psychedelic Fast-Paced Singleplayer 3D Platformer Female Protagonist Platformer Sci-fi Third Person Stylized Indie Precision Platformer Colorful Unforgiving

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 2GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.5
Storage: 20 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (64bit)
Processor: 2GHz Intel
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.5
Storage: 20 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Processor: 2GHz Intel
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.5
Storage: 20 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Boson X is a hexagonal runner. It's similar to the Flash game series "Run" in the sense that you rotate the screen so the character can jump over gaps. The game is about jumping over platforms that randomly spawn in a set of a few different patterns per level. Occasionally there's blue platforms which increase your energy level. Every time you increase the level, your character runs faster. Once you reach 100%, the level is considered complete. You can keep playing for a higher score but it's way faster than before you reached 100% so it's harder. It's similar to Super Hexagon in the sense that you have to reach a certain requirement to go to the next stage, in this case energy versus the actual 60 seconds of time. It's also about memorizing patterns and having good timing for the different speeds. Every pattern in SH is beatable regardless of what order they show up in. Boson X has a problem where some patterns require you to be on 1 of the 8 axis to get past it, so you can fail with barely any warning. The 4th to last level was way harder for me than the last 3 which felt strange. Also, a good amount of the level's patterns are very visually overwhelming to the point that it's kind of hard to look at. So if you have a issues with flashing lights or busy patterns, then this might not be for you. Regardless, it wasn't that big of a deal for me. It just took some getting used to. I had bought this game back in 2018 and I played it for an hour and then I completely forgot about it. I've recently been getting into grinding achievements so while I was thinking about shortish games in my library, I remembered this game. Despite all of my complaints I really do genuinely like this game. It's really fun. (By the way, holding left or right does the same as holding up for a jump so it's a good idea to practice doing that more often versus just holding jump. It's easier to land from a long jump in my experience.) I'd definitely recommend this game! It's really fun to 100% as well.

Dec. 2024

Vertigo, faith, fear, angst and fun can happen every 5 seconds inside a Boxon X level. God forbids if you dare to blink. sneeze or pee. This game feels stronger than any drug you can image.

Dec. 2024

Unexpecadly good runner. Very catching gameplay. Rhytmic and fast. Easily grabs attention and holds it as well. Appealing visuals. Thought i generally don't appreciate sci-fi theme. Besides sounds. I'm total synthwave fan, so it feels great for me.

July 2024

the only issue with this game is that it ends . it's simple but it's so effective and it's a great tribute to online flash endless runner games. aside from the nostalgia of playing it years ago on my phone. genuinely might be one of my favourite games, not because it's a masterpiece, but because it's fun and so good at what it does

May 2024

For my skill level this game is quite a difficult runner but I still found it surprisingly incredibly fun and addictive.

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4.99€

8.8

1,447

117

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Developer

Ian MacLarty, Jon Kerney

Publisher

Shape Shop

Release 15 Sep 2014

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