我需要DLC！！！游戏从开始到结束，具像化的展现了：拥有一间自己的房间。我真的好爱女主，她是一个充满激情，热爱生活，并且坚持自己爱好的人。一些地方强迫症不友好，很多东西不能太严丝合缝的放。里面跟男人合住那一块简直是噩梦素材

Unpacking is a very good cozy game where you unpack boxes and decorate in any ways you want. It's a very addictive game, the pixels graphics are cutes and beautiful and the ambiant is so relaxing. It would be a shame to miss out such a great game like this one and I highly recommend it!!! 💗🧸💗

I'll start by saying that Unpacking, a game about taking objects out of a box and placing them in a room, wasn't for me. On paper it should've been, so for this review I'll try and explain the why of that, and the why of the other, and come to some kind of conclusion.

So I spend countless hours in Bethesda RPGs organising my inventory, and moving things from my inventory to various containers in the many designated houses you have in those games. I do this because I generally like order and probably have a little OCD. I also don't like to throw stuff away in games, in case I need it later, and Bethesda RPGs overload you, quite literally, with junk. I also tend to hang onto special weapons and armour, "in case I want to try them out later, or change my look", I say to myself. Or perhaps there'll be a situation where I'll need a particular gun or piece of armour, and because I've got all those items neatly placed in different containers (based on item type), it'll be a simple case of fast travelling back to base and picking them up.

Of course, in reality I tend to find a few guns I like and stick with them for the majority of the game, with most special weapons getting some cursory use before being placed into storage. Whilst armour is a little more flexible and situational early on, I'll eventually reach a point where I'll just use the best item, stats wise, for my particular character.

But if you enjoy all this item management then what's the problem? The thing is, I don't enjoy it. It's more like a compulsion; the act of moving items between various locations and containers is actually incredibly tedious, made even more of a chore thanks to Bethesda's cumbersome UIs. The process starts feeling like work and it's about as rewarding, and pointless, as working a 9-5 data entry job. And you get paid to do the data entry. You also get to go back to a real house. Why exactly am I making, and stocking, a house in a video game? I'm never going to go back there years later. If I play the game again I'll restart it and all that unpacking will have been pointless.

I also tend to hit a moment in these games where I notice I'm doing a lot of item management and at that point I tell myself, "either carry on with the main quest or stop playing the game, because you're wasting your time". This was even the case with my beloved Fallout: New Vegas, but once I forced myself to abandon the busy work I was completely absorbed by the game's world and story.

Perhaps this is why the only survival/crafting game I've ever been into is Subnautica; because the crafting has a purpose and it's tied to the narrative. I like to think there's a reason I'm doing something in a game.

In unpacking you are rearranging the belongings of a fictional person over the course of their life, in the various houses they 'lived' in. As should be apparent from my Bethesda compulsions, I like to arrange things, and so the books and nik-naks I own and collect are ordered. There is a satisfaction to this, and a purpose*. There is nothing satisfying about unpacking some digital items that aren't mine, for a faceless avatar, other than the little endorphin hit you get from ordering things. There is also no point to it and so all you're really left with is the compulsion.

I have seen people say that the items you unpack and the various houses you fill up, tell a story; but it's a superficial, paper thin narrative, relying on lots of input and interpretation from the player. There are no notes or voice acting, just stuff to unpack and repack.

Unpacking is obviously a casual game and has no pretensions of being something more. It's the kind of thing you can play whilst doing something else. For some people that's great, but I often find that if I'm doing two things at once, then one of them is getting far less attention. Unpacking doesn't have the replay value of a lot of those multitask games either.

So all that rambling has hopefully explained, in far too much detail, why I don't recommend Unpacking. I don't hate it, because it's not offensive and does what it says on the tin. But I'd still rather have left it packed.

*The collecting of ultimately worthless, material things, and the value we place on them, is a discussion for another time.