Unpacking

Witch Beam made a game where you unpack boxes after moving and somehow told a complete 21-year life story without a single word of dialogue. Each level is a new home — dorm room, first apartment, partner's place, divorce apartment, dream house — and the items you unpack reveal everything about the unnamed protagonist's life. The diploma that goes from the wall to a drawer. The stuffed animal that survives every move. It won the BAFTA for Best Narrative in 2022, beating Unpacking beat Inscryption and Life Is Strange, and its narrative innovation outpaced the typical top 10 indie game, with over 1 million players worldwide. A game about putting things in drawers made people cry.