Unpacking

Complete with extra padding (Pun Intended)

Unpacking, it’s a simple task that has been turned into a digital title for the Xbox One. It is a very easy game completion that will increase your gamer score by a good 1000 points. This is a perfect game for little kids as it can be satisfyingly fun organizing your belongings. Parents could make this game a learning moment as well for all those kids that leave a tornado of belongings in their wake. Hopeful through the game children can learn to utilize the useful skill of organization in their lives.

As the game title states, taking stuff out of boxes and placing them in the appropriate rooms and then organizing them in a pleasant tidy manner is the core gameplay here. The game feels like it’s from a girl’s perspective as she goes through the different stages of life from a child to parent. Many of the items are neutral, but when you are putting away bras into a drawer you can say it is a little slanted towards the female gender. Either way you can use your own imagination to come up with a story for yourself as you unpack items through a span of 20 years.

The years vary from 1997, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018. Time jumps in both small and large increments just as it happens in real life. As you move and unpack boxes in the increasing years you will come across the same items many times. Moving into bigger spaces let’s you grown your collection of things. Knickknacks from your travels is a perfect example showing where you have been in the world. Paris, Italy, or London are represented with some souvenirs.

Visually the game is not stunning in any sense of the word. The graphics are very 8-bit with a photo mode that also lets replay the entire unpacking sequence you completed. The game is a very quick completion with not much replay value, but great for padding your gamers score. I most likely would not have purchased this game and only ended up playing it through Xbox Game Pass for those exact reasons.