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What is Unbox Us?
Unbox Us is a cozy room-organizing game about visiting neighbours, arranging their belongings and discovering the stories behind the things they keep. You visit neighbours by invitation and arrange their belongings inside containers and in other useful places. You are helping in their rooms, rather than moving into their homes.
Explore the game and watch development gameplayWhy is it called Unbox Us?
As you arrange someone’s belongings, you get to know the person behind them. You’re a neighbour invited over to help, listen and share an ordinary afternoon. The game is about arranging the things they already own and finding a little room for each other.
What kind of game is Unbox Us?
Unbox Us is a cozy room-organizing game about visiting neighbours, arranging their belongings and discovering the stories behind the things they keep. Choose where belongings fit, change your mind with Undo, and finish a visit with a few things still out. There’s no timer.
Who am I, and why am I helping?
You’re the new neighbour. An invitation brings you into someone’s room for mending, music or tea. Help arrange their belongings in bags, boxes, trays and other useful places, and get to know the person behind them. Mira’s first invitation is a chance to get to know you. Small favours lead to introductions, and each resident offers company, kindness or a welcome of their own. You can finish a visit with things still out and remain just as welcome.
Why are belongings in bags, trays and boxes?
Your neighbours have gathered things for what they want to do: repairs for a mending afternoon, records to compare, tools for tending citrus, or tea to share. Arranging those collections inside containers and in other useful places makes room for the occasion. Each container and its contents belong to that person’s everyday life.
Am I unpacking a house move?
You are visiting a neighbour who already lives there. Their belongings are gathered for an ordinary afternoon or project. The focus is arranging those things inside open containers and in useful furniture homes, while getting to know their owner.
Where can I watch the game being played?
Watch Esmé’s yellow record sleeve find two different homes in one visit. The short clip includes Undo and the photograph kept at the end.
Watch Esmé’s visitIs this a decorating game or a tidying game?
The focus is tidying and arranging belongings in rooms that already have their own furniture and character. You choose useful places for objects around the fixed furniture. You are helping a neighbour make space for something, such as mending, music or a quiet afternoon.
Is there one correct arrangement?
Suggested homes offer guidance, but they are not a placement checklist. Physical fit, occupied space and access decide whether a useful place works. You can try different arrangements that leave the room ready to use.
Is there a timer or a penalty for mistakes?
There is no timer, punishment or energy economy. You can move a belonging again or Undo a committed arrangement.
Do I have to put everything away before leaving?
No. Finish is a voluntary choice. You can leave a visit before full tidying, and the goodbye acknowledges the time you spent there.
How do I move and turn things?
The game supports dragging or lifting and tapping a place. Double-tapping or double-clicking an object turns it. Undo and hold recovery give you ways to change your mind or reach an unsettled belonging.
Can I play offline?
The game’s arranging experience is designed for offline play. This website’s optional listening-room scene is a separate illustration and uses ordinary website downloads when it first loads.
Can I move the furniture?
Furniture generally stays fixed. You arrange the belongings on and around it, with real opening storage where that room has authored it. Decorative drawer fronts do not automatically open.
What about taking photographs?
The game keeps photographs of your visits in Memories, separately from arranging Undo. The website scene does not create game photographs or transfer objects into game saves.
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Is the interactive room the full game?
It is a small interactive website illustration inspired by Esmé’s room. You can move one sleeve and try the record, lamp and book. Labelled development screenshots elsewhere on the site show the native game.
Can I turn off the moving scenery?
Yes. Pause stops ambient animation; Use still images in the home-page footer replaces the scene with artwork. Your device’s Reduced Motion preference also selects the still presentation.
Development
When will the game be released?
Unbox Us is in development. A public release date has yet to be announced.
Was the game previously called Pardon My Clutter?
Yes. Pardon My Clutter was the game’s earlier public name. It is now called Unbox Us, reflecting the neighbour visits and the people behind the belongings you arrange.
Which platforms will it be on, and what will it cost?
Public platforms have yet to be announced. Pricing will be shared when confirmed.
Where can I find images and information for coverage?
The press page has official descriptions, the selected identity, artwork and labelled native development screenshots. Website illustrations and native screenshots are provided as separate categories.
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