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A casual simulation game released in 2021, Unpacking offers a zen-like experience of unpacking boxes and arranging belongings. With over 34,025 positive Steam reviews, this indie title has resonated with players. The developer attribution is currently unknown.
Overview
Unpacking is a 2021 Casual game developed by Witch Beam and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 34,831 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Witch Beam with publisher Balor Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.3 million to 2.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Unpacking can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
34,831
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1135690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
279
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.3M to 2.9M
units (median: 2.1M)
≈ $14.3M to $33.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Unpacking at roughly 1.3 million to 2.9 million copies, with a median around 2.1 million, derived from its 34,831 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
54 observed days · window low $7.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Unpacking sold?
- indielist estimates Unpacking has sold between 1,253,916 and 2,925,804 units (median 2,089,860), derived from its 34,831 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Unpacking?
- Unpacking was developed by Witch Beam and published by Balor Games.
- Who published Unpacking?
- Unpacking was published by Balor Games, developed by Witch Beam. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Unpacking released?
- Unpacking was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Unpacking have on Steam?
- Unpacking has 34,831 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Unpacking worth playing?
- Steam players rate Unpacking 93% positive across 34,831 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Unpacking can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Assemble with Care, Coloring Pixels, Cozy Grove, Minami Lane, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Witch Beam's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Unpacking sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Unpacking page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- C
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- M
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Shared tags: Cute, Casual, Life Sim
- L
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- H
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