Unboxathon

The game was fun, short, but also had potential to be played much longer if you wanted. It has anything an incremental should have. The idea is cute, and opening boxes to unpack stuff is fun. Though I don't get how the bubbles tie in thematically. But it desperately needs a QoL pass; or two, or three. There is zero guidance on what anything is, or what it does. As an example; I kept getting SP points, but couldn't find anything to spend them on for a while. Then found I needed a bunch more, but it wasn't until I was half way through the game that I figured out where they were coming from. The game is filled with stuff like that. It's almost entirely that.. You can figure it out, but it should be intuitive. Top shelves give money per second, and bottom shelves give xp per second btw. Also, the synthesizer was an utter waste of resources, even end game. It can easily be beaten in about five hours.

I like idlers that you can leave running while you do something else. I also like idle games when they are more active if the game is interesting enough to keep you hooked. Sadly, Unboxathon didn't really hit either category for me. From the content it's very plain and boring and would make for a nice game you come back to every now and then just to see what pappened and what you can upgrade. But the game requires you to be present constantly. You have to pop bubbles, open boxes, click to collect stuff from the boxes. Nothing of that is interesting enough to keep me hooked and excited. Yes, it's easy to 100% and doesn't take you longer than maybe 5 hours but all this time felt like watching paint dry....