Unbox took me back to a time when games were about fun.

The movement is incredibly fun to navigate with, and provides an additional layer of challenge that will surprise and go against expectations.

The springy physics are almost perfect, giving you just enough control even as you hurtle through the air at speed. [Nov 2016, p.118]

Platforming games were always my go-to genre as a kid and Unbox does take me back to that in some sense, but realistically it brings all the difficulty I would expect from a game on a tablet device and I kind of feel that’s where it belongs.

It reminds you of those great 3D platformers of the 90s, but never manages to reach the same heights as they once did.

With no challenge beyond wrestling with the horrible controls, Unbox is a failed appeal to nostalgia that captures none of the warmth or playability of the games it admires.