Unpacking
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $7.17, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities., 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was November 2025. 34 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. No sale on record has reached $7.17, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gourdlets ($4.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Little Witch in the Woods ($19.99, scores 62).
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
7 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,492 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
98% start to 17% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
260 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Phenomenal game. Trailers show the gameplay well. Not super long but a surprisingly high replay value (I've played through the entire game ~5 times). If there's ever any kind of similar gameplay sequel, I will be jumping on that so fast! I strongly recommend.
This is such a relaxing game, and I have played it to completion multiple times! I absolutely love the art and the storytelling over the sorting of items, and its something you can just zone out on if you need a break from reality! 100/10, one of my favorite games I've ever played!
Look, this game is cute, it's fun and relaxing to play and the story is really neat, but it's just way to short. I find that it has little to no replayability, I finished the game just over two hours and for the price stated I was incredibly disappointed as there was no desire or reason to continue the game, and it took just long enough that I couldn't get a refund and buy something more fulfilling. I put it down...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
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Unpacking scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1135690/unpackingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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