Unbox is an adventure developed by Prospect Games, released 5 September 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Unbox is
Unbox is an adventure game developed by Prospect Games and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Unbox is 3D platformer where the player is a cardboard box who must bounce and roll, through mountains and islands alike, to deliver themselves for the greater good of the Global Postal Service, or GPS. This can include racing against a clock, solving puzzles, and a lot of fun with physics, which often involves causing mayhem by knocking things over or blowing them up. The game also has a strong local multiplayer element, for full split-screen enjoyment, including a variety of different challenges. To save themselves from bankruptcy, the GPS have somehow created living boxes that can deliver themselves to customers all over the world, to save on human staff. In Unbox, you will play as their…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Unbox holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 2.0Ghz+, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA 9800 GTX/ AMD 7750 (DDR3) or higher. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Unbox launched on 5 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
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