Microsoft created and published the 1999 computer adventure game Pandora’s Box. The title is a puzzle game rather than a conventional story-driven adventure, and it was designed around visual and logic challenges.
The game presents players with a series of puzzles based on pattern recognition, image manipulation, and related forms of problem-solving. Its title uses the familiar mythological phrase, but the gameplay is not a retelling of Hesiod’s story.
Pandora’s Box was released for Microsoft Windows. It belongs to the late-1990s era of boxed PC software, when puzzle titles were commonly distributed on physical discs and marketed for home computers.
The game should not be confused with Pandora’s Tower, a 2011 Japanese action role-playing game, or with films titled Pandora’s Box. These works share a name but have unrelated creators and formats.