Unpacking is a zen 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. Over the course of eight house moves, you are given a chance to experience a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told.
Features
Unpack a home — from a single bedroom to an entire house
Meditative gameplay with no timers, meters or scores
Explore domestic environments with all their nooks and crannies while you stack plates, hang towels, and arrange bookshelves
Discover a character's story through the items that come with her to each new home (and the items that get left behind)
Soundtrack by BAFTA award-winning composer and audio director Jeff van Dyck
Screenshots
6 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Build 20252641Oct 4, 2025
This update addresses the recently announced Unity engine vulnerability as well as rolling in small fixes and improvements
improvements to input rebinding behaviour
fixed an issue related to Album naming and improved handling of Asian characters
This update adds five additional languages, and addresses some bugs and small issues we've had reported.
Language support for Italian, Turkish, Indonesian, Filipino and Malay languages - where possible the game will use the language specified in your Steam client, but it's always been possible to set your preferred language in game from the Settings menu on the Title Screen
Fixed a disappearing text issue that was affecting some MacOS and Linux users
Fixed various small issues
Made some adjustments to item validation based on player feedback
We've also had reports that some Mac users are receiving warnings that Unpacking has been blocked because it may reduce privacy and lower security. As this did not coincide with a game update we're not sure what caused this change.
Unpacking does not track or transmit user data (beyond anything required for Steam to function) but we do not recommend anyone disregard the safety messages of their operating system. If this update doesn't improve the situation we will continue to investigate.
Unpacking is a zen 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. Over the course of eight house moves, you are given a chance to experience a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told. After 3 years of development, we're so excited to finally share our cozy game with the world! We hope you love it as much as we do.
There are a ton of ways you can help us out other than just buying the game too. Especially for a small indie studio, we also appreciate things like:
Spreading the word to family, friends, and even your favorite streamer
Leaving a review on Steam
Sharing our news on social media
But no pressure - we're grateful to have you here at all!
Share Your Rooms!
A fun new feature of the game is our built-in playback and GIF maker feature. This allows you to easily capture and share your unpacking process with the community.
One of our favorite things is seeing your creativity and organizational skills shine. Please feel free to tag us on Twitter @UnpackingALife if you end up using the feature. You can also tag us if you stream the game - we might even pop in and say hi!
AMAs
Finally, if you end up having any burning questions about our development process or Unpacking in general, we have two AMAs lined up. You can catch us on either:
