Boxelware is a video game studio from Erlangen, Germany, founded in January 2016 by Konstantin Kronfeldner. In short, Boxelware makes the games they themselves would like to play. The team focuses on systemic sandbox titles with co-op mode. The studio was founded based on the success of the first title Avorion, which has become the studio’s flagship title.
In April 2024, Boxelware announced that they’re working on a new, second project, Aquapark Tycoon, a cozy tycoon-style simulation game, in which players build and manage a waterpark paradise from the ground up.
The team is now not only continuing to develop Avorion but also working on the studio’s next major project: Aquapark Tycoon.
Games
Aquapark Tycoon
A Tycoon Game where players build their own waterpark & spa paradise & design slides, pools and saunas to take care of the needs and wishes of their guests.
History
Founded in January 2016 by Konstantin Kronfeldner, Boxelware is the indie studio that is developing Avorion. Avorion has been created by Konstantin in over 4 years as a side project next to his studies in computer science. Following a successful release in 2020 and 3 DLCs later, Avorion remains in active development with no plans to stop.
In April 2024, Boxelware announced that they’re working on a new, second project, Aquapark Tycoon, a cozy tycoon-style simulation game, in which players build and manage a waterpark paradise from the ground up.
Early Days & Avorion
After Avorion being greenlit in December 2015 in only 9 days, Konstantin decided to develop Avorion full-time and a new developer, Philipp Erhardt, has joined the former one-man-team. After a successful kickstarter campaign that secured finances, the team improved Avorion until it was ready to be published. In January 2017 the game was released into Early Access on Steam. After intense development and many, many updates, Avorion was finally released on March 9th, 2020. Avorion is the first project of Boxelware. At the end of April 2020 Avorion won the German Computer Game Awards in the Category Best Expert Game! This award has confirmed the team’s commitment to further develop Avorion and the team is proud to have released the first DLC for Avorion: The Black Market, released on Steam in November 2020. Several updates of improvements on the game later, Boxelware was able to present version 2.0 of Avorion. With many Quality of Life improvements, reworked and improved features like fighters, hyperspace engine and a new autopilot, and new captains and captained commands, this update creates a new, smoother than ever experience.
Following the continued success of Avorion, Boxelware released a second DLC in 2022: Into The Rift, in which players can explore the mysterious hyperspace rifts in short, but difficult missions.
Several updates later, the Boxelware released a third DLC, this time for free, introducing the Behemoth Event series. In this DLC, which came with a large free update in its backpack, large, extremely powerful ships attack the galaxy, and must be defeated by players.
With the ongoing success of Avorion, the development of the game continues steadily with no end in sight.
Branding Assets
