Skins – The Collection

2016-05-23 rev. 2016-09-08

You will not find every skin made for Sokoban here but certainly many of the most well known.

Most of the skins can be downloaded from the Skin Download Page

You will not find skins by Gerry Wiseman here 🙁
Gerry got his own page 😀

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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alissAllan B Liss
Skin from Allans “Sokoban for Windows” from 1992
Aymeric2Aymeric du Peloux

Skin for the online player at Aymerics discontinued website

 Balls by Hans Dietrich Pester balls
BDEMarron
BDE Marron
BDEGreen
BDE Green

BDE by Philippe Galmel

The main skin for the Sokoban program BDE. Came in at least two colors. Development stopped around 2002.

BeemannSkin-Beeman2

The skins Cubism and Disconights by Beemann are beautiful but hopeless for serious Sokoban solving. Recolored by DrFogh 2016.

BejeweledBejeweled

Unknown author. The title and the graphics imply there are some inspiration from the gameseries Bejeweled.
Very smooth animation.

BlueBlue by Barbara Chamberlin

Same graphics as “Grey”

Skin-BlueGraniteBlue Granite by Merlinj W
boendorfBoendorf

Skin delivered with Sokoban++. Skin can be shown in many formats with invisible balls and other quirks. Probably limited use.

Boxes2
Boxes 2001
Skin-BoxesNew
Boxes 2007

Boxes by Gilles Mérour
You can still download Boxes. The game is freeware. But no development since 2007.

Boxworld
Boxworld Original
Boxworld16
Boxworld 2016

Boxworld by Jeng-Long Liang 1992

Most sokobanlovers know this skin which shows the layout of the puzzles very clearly.

Boxworld got its own page here at Sokoban.dk

Boxworld IndigoBoxworld Indigo by Jeng Jong Liang
boxxleBoxxle. 1989

Skin from Boxxle (1989) And Boxxle2 (1991) for Nintendo Game Boy.

BrainsportExtremeBrainsport Extreme
BulldozerBulldozer. Expert Software 1995
Chess1
Chess 1

Chess by Andrej Cerjak

Chess2
Chess 2
Chess3
Chess 3

Made with 3 different walls.

Skin-Chess-DrFogh
Chess Marron
ChessBlack
Chess Black

Chess by Tyge Fogh 2016

Chinese by Dan Adrian BalutaChinese
Skin-CircleCircle by Ariel Rodriguez

Default skin for Sokoban++

ClassicNoGlassesOld
Classic No Glasses
Classic
Classic Glasses High-res

 icon-external-link Classic by Björn Källmark

Shown an old low-res version of the skin with a Sokoban without and a newer high-res version with a Sokoban with sunglasses.

Get the high-res version (.skn) from Björns website.

CratekeeperCratekeeper by Doreen and Rainer Kaufmann
Cubism1
Cubism 1
Cubism2
Cubism 2

Cubism by Beemann

You get two versions of this elegant skin.

DisconightsDisconights by Beemann

Could be Cubism 3…

doughnutDoughnut of Zen by Paw Damsgaard
EasterEaster by Brian Damgaard. 2008

 

FelixTheCatFelix The Cat by Philippe Galmel
francois1
Francois Marques 1
francois2
Francois Marques 2
FrancoisMarques1
Francois Marques 2 Seamless

Francois Marques

G4B-Yellow
G4B Yellow
Games4Brains Animated Red
G4B Red

Games4Brains Red Animated – Jan Reinke

The default skin for YASC.

GemsGems by Pete Hannon
GlowingPumpkin Glowing Pumpkins by Ticko
Skin-Go
Go
GoNew
Go+

Go

 

Unknown original artist.
Remade from original graphics with seamless bamboo walls and more “Go-like” goals by DrFogh 2016

GreenGreen

One of several forgotten skins found in the skin collection for “Sokoban by Kohn”

Green Metallic by Björn KällmarkGreen Metallic
GreyGrey by Barbara Chamberlin

Same graphics as “Blue”

HappyFaceHappy Face by Barbara Chamberlin
IcecubesIcecubes by Kavel
JapanJavaJapan by Tanaka Nikos

From a japanese webpage with the player Japan Java. Skin remade by DrFogh with graphics provided by Paul Voyer.

JellyBlueGreenJelly Blue Green

Erim Sever made som high resolution skins.
2016 DrFogh revised the best and mounted it as Common Skin.

KenyaMaruyamaKenya Maruyama
KSokobanKSokoban by Anders Widell

Skin for the Sokoban player KDE aka KSokoban. Skin also known as Warehouse Guy other place.

b-lagerLager by Borgar Thorsteinson

The best known skin by Borgar is Yoshi but he also made other skins. Read about Borgar and his Sokoban merits

MacIntosh
MacIntosh 1999
Skin-MacIntosh New
MacIntosh 2016

MacIntosh by Scott Lindhurst 1999

Popular skin made for “Sokoban for the MacIntosh” by Scott Lindhurst.
Skin remade with high resolution 2016 by Brian Damgaard with small contributions by DrFogh.

MacMiniMacMini

Skin for the Sokoban player SYAS (Still Yet Another Sokoban) by Gray Sky Games. For Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. An old player but actually updated 2016.

ShellMagic Pearls by Ward de Langhe (2006)
YellowMicro Sokoban

Found in the skin collection for “Sokoban by Kohn”

MrHappyMister Happy

MontyMonty by Vitaly Pinchuk (2016)

Based on graphics from the 1983 platform game Montezuma’s Revenge. Strange graphics very well implemented.

MoonstarMoonstar by Barbara Chamberlin
MultibanMultiban
NeoquintoNeokwinto by Val de Mar
Pac3
Pacban
Pac1
Pacman by Jerry J Shekhel
Pac2
Pacman by Gerry Wiseman
Pac4
Pacman by Tyge Fogh
Pac5
Pacman Plus by The81x

Pacman

Pacman is often used as template for Sokoban skins. Read more here.

(No. I didn’t forget to move Gerry Wisemans Pacman)

Sokodroid1
Plastico A
Sokodroid2
Plastico B

Plastico by Riccardo Riva

Two versions. Static graphics are the same. Dynamic different.

PocomanPocoman by Sleepless Software (1989)

 

RAD
Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds Original
RADTyge
Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds version 2016

 Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds

The skin for Sokoban from the game Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds.

You can make thousands of skins with the building blocks for Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds.

And read more and get nice stuff here at Sokoban.dk

 

ShockwaveShockwave by Samir Mansuri
Skin-ShoveShove (1990)

Skin from “Shove It! The Warehouse Game” for the Genesis console.

Remade with original graphics by DrFogh 2016

b-simple-bricks
Simple – Bricks
b-simple-plain
Simple – Plain

Simple by Borgar Thorsteinson

Another Borgar skin. Read about it

SnailAndSokobanSnail and Sokoban

Nice skin for a online Sokoban player at Kongregate

SnookerSkin

Snooker by John C. Davis
At least 10 years (2005 or earlier) ago John C. Davis made a few Sokoban puzzles. And among others the skin Snooker.

Spectrum Holobyte DOSSoko-Ban for DOS. Spectrum Holobyte 1984.

Common skin revised 2016 by DrFogh.

RadcliffeSokoban 1994 by Ratcliffe

In the original game the graphics for the walls were randomly placed.

Sokoban97BlueRec
Sokoban97 Rectangular
Sokoban97
Sokoban97 Square

Sokoban97 by Gerald Holler 1997
Same skin is used for the later Sokomind.
The original rectangular version at the top. The square Common Skin version at the bottom.

SokobanOnline2SokobanOnline.com

The skin for the Sokoban Online site. You can get other Sokobans and Santa Claus at Christmas.

SokoblueSokoblue by Jan Reinke

Skin for Games4Brains now defunct (OK, still works perfectly with a Windows7 computer) online Java Sokoban player.

Sokofun1 Sokofun2Sokofun

A subculture seems to exist using design elements from Games4Brain.

Contributors, ex. Ivan Ivanov and Franco.

SokosaveSokosave by Paul McCarthy. 1997

Skin for Eric Sunshines Sokoban program Sokosave. Runs on many platforms. Last known Windows smartphones 2011.

Sokosex7Sokosex. True Emotions. 1994

Same game as Peter Box from the same company. Not much sex in Sokoban, but in this program you get a new skin and a lovely naked woman or two for every 10 puzzles. Here skin number 7.

Soukoban
Soukoban
SoukobanRev
Soukoban Rev

Soukoban by Stafan Modig

Skin revised with smooth edges on the walls by Franco.

Skin revised with bigger differences in color with stone on/off goal. Sokoban and stones animated. All by DrFogh

Skin-SupaplexSupaplex

Supaplex is a game made by Think!Ware Development for the Commodore Amiga in 1991. Original skin by unknown. Here reconstructed by DrFogh with original 32*32 tiles. and several changes to make the skin useful for playing. Graphic elements from Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds website

JapanJava1 Takaken by Kenichiro Takahashi

Skin for the Takaken Solver.

Graphics for the Sokoban has been borrowed from the skin Japan but otherwise it is a completely different skin.

TextText by Ziko
TotoToto by Philippe Galmel
WarcraftWarcraft
WinSoko1
Winsoko A
WinSoko2
Winsoko B
winsoko-xmas
Winsoko Xmas

Winsoko by Robert Vasizek

Skin for Roberts player Winsoko.

Not the most beautiful skin but very clear and playable. Comes in two versions.

DrFogh was responsible for Winsoko Xmas (Hope you don’t mind, Robert) for the 2016 Christmas season.

 XMLSokobanXML Sokoban by Ilya Kozachenko
skin-xsokmac
XSok for Mac
skin-xsok
XSok
skin-xsokred
XSok Red

XSok by Michael Bischoff. 1994
An old Linux program with an ugly looking Sokoban. Want to try it ?

DrFogh saved the skin from oblivion and made a red version to make it more playable.

XSokoban1

XSokoban
Classic skin for a classic Sokoban program.

skin-yoshiclassic+
Yoshi Classic+
skin-yoshinew
Yoshi New

Yoshi by Borgar Thorsteinson

The skin was remade with higher resolution and a new version with a brickwall. Read about the work by Brian Damgaard and DrFogh.

YSokoban
YSokoban Plain
YSokobanB
YSokoban Decorated A
YSokobanC
YSokoban Decorated B
YSokobanDecorated
YSokoban Decorated C

YSokoban by George Petrov

Native skin for the YSokoban player. Comes in 4 less or more decorated versions.