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Unpacking wants to make moving house as chill as possibleMake a house a home.
Make a house a home.
Image credit:Humble Games
Image credit:Humble Games
Moving house is a nightmare. From dealing with landlords to hauling your junk halfway across the country, it’s more stressful than anything the world of videogames could throw at you. Fortunately, upcoming chill puzzlerUnpackingskips all that for the good part of settling into new digs - the moment where you finally get to spill boxes all over the floor and start turning a sterile showroom into a messy, intimate home.
As someone who’s been in a state of perpetual unpacking since leaving uni three years ago (oh no), I’m really feeling the power fantasy Witch Beam’s selling of getting it all done at once.
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You’ll move eight times across Unpacking’s length, and the devs note there’ll be a light narrative playing out as you shift from cell-like student bunks to full homes. If I do have a complaint, it’s that Unpacking’s cardboard boxes vanish into a thin air - a shockingly unrealistic part of the process, I reckon, staring at the mountain of cardboard in the corner of the office.
It’s one hell of a tonal shift from Witch Beam’s last work, frenetic twin-stickAssault Android Cactus. But if you’d like to make a house a home without having to deal with estate agents or landlords, Unpacking will arrive onSteamand “other PC platforms” next year.
