The game was nominated for Game of the Year at the Gayming Awards 2022 and won Best LGBTQ Indie Game and Authentic Representation.
GamesRadar+ praised it for its innovative narrative, and it was awarded a Can I Play That? award for its accessibility. The game received positive reviews from Rock Paper Shotgun, GameSpot, Eurogamer, Nintendo Life, IGN, Kotaku, TouchArcade, It sold over 100,000 copies across all platforms in its first ten days. Unpacking received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Physical versions of the game, published and distributed by Limited Run Games, were available for preorder between March 29 and May 1, 2022. Versions for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 were released on May 10, 2022. Unpacking was released for personal computers, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One on November 2, 2021. The team initially expected development of the game to take about a year and a half, though actual production of the game took twice as long. While Witch Beam managed most of the game's social media channels, the team recruited Victoria Tran, the community director of Among Us, to help operate Unpacking 's Discord channel and TikTok account. The sound design includes over 14,000 foley effects, with multiple pick-up and placement sound effects unique to each item. The team put a lot of thought into making Unpacking 's accessible: The nearly wordless nature of the game ensures that anyone who may have language or comprehension barriers can still enjoy playing the game, and many additional accessibility features were implemented. Unpacking is mostly a wordless experience, with the narrative mainly told through objects the player unpacks from boxes.
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The two participated in the Stugan games accelerator program in Sweden, and the game entered full production in early 2019. She found that unpacking unlabelled boxes, not knowing what is stored inside, was an experience that could be translated into a video game. The game was first conceptualized by Wren Brier when she moved in with her partner, Witch Beam co-director Tim Dawson, in early 2018.
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The studio was founded in 2013 and had previously released Assault Android Cactus, a twin-stick shooter, in 2015.
Unpacking was developed by Witch Beam, an independent game studio based in Brisbane, Australia. The development team accepting Best Audio at the 22nd Game Developers Choice Awards
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