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Shoutout to the person who talked me into trying Unpacking
I was super skeptical about Unpacking for like a year. It looked so boring. Just putting dishes in a cabinet? I thought it was one of those games that people pretended to like. But my buddy kept bugging me about it so I grabbed it on sale for $15 last weekend. Took me about 4 hours to play through the whole thing and I get it now. The way you figure out someone's life story just from where they put their stuff is surprisingly deep. No words, no plot, just boxes. Has anyone else had a game like that where the premise sounds dumb but the execution is legit?
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uma_ellis11d ago
Jumping in here because SAME. I literally scoffed at my friend when she told me to try it. I was like so you just put away laundry? For fun? But then I played it and I was HOOKED. The way the game tells a story through clutter and space is honestly genius. Like you put the kid's trophies in the closet and it means something. Or you leave a box of stuff in the attic and it's emotional baggage. I CRIED at the end. No joke. It's one of those things where you have to trust the hype because the premise sounds SO dumb but it's actually a masterclass in storytelling.
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ray_campbell4611d ago
Wait, are you sure you cried at the end of Unpacking? I thought the ending was more bittersweet than full on crying material.
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pat_fisher2411d ago
The way that game uses space to tell a story is just brilliant. Putting away those little childhood things in the last apartment hit me harder than I expected, like seeing a whole life laid out in boxes. It really makes you realize how much our stuff carries memories with it.
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