I’ve long maintained that Unpacking is one of the best games that launched in 2021 – something that our own Tom Orry also argued back when the title launched into Xbox Game Pass back in November 2021.
On the surface, Unpacking may seem quite trite: you move from house to house, unpacking items as you go and organizing them into your new living space. Given this task is so dreary and unfulfilling in real life, it’s amazing to see a game make it such a profoundly moving – and incredibly engaging – experience.
And it’s not just us that think so, it seems; last night, Unpacking took home BAFTA’s highly-coveted Best Narrative award (beating out It Takes Two, Life is Strange: True Colors, Returnal, Psychonauts 2, and even Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy). This award is given out by a pre-approved list of judges, but the other BAFTA Unpacking managed to clinch – the EE Game of the Year award – was the only category in the whole show voted for by the public.
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