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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 34,228 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.2 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
34,228
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1135690
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.2M to 2.9M
units (median: 2.1M)
≈ $14.1M to $32.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Unpacking at roughly 1.2 million to 2.9 million copies, with a median around 2.1 million, derived from its 34,228 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23.4M 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
90d · low $14.46Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.46 to $19.99, averaging $19.03 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.46 on 2026-05-05.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
RelaxingCuteCasualPixel GraphicsPuzzleStory RichSingleplayerSimulationIndieLife SimAtmosphericPoint & ClickLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistIsometricFamily FriendlyColorfulInventory Management2DHidden Object
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Unpacking sold?
- indielist estimates Unpacking has sold between 1,232,208 and 2,875,152 units (median 2,053,680), derived from its 34,228 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Unpacking?
- Unpacking was developed by Witch Beam and published by Balor Games.
- When was Unpacking released?
- Unpacking was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Unpacking have on Steam?
- Unpacking has 34,228 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Unpacking sold?
- indielist estimates Unpacking has sold between 1,232,208 and 2,875,152 units (median 2,053,680), derived from its 34,228 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Unpacking?
- Unpacking was developed by Witch Beam and published by Balor Games.
- When was Unpacking released?
- Unpacking was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Unpacking have on Steam?
- Unpacking has 34,228 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Unpacking within the Casual segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.