No, Indie Hit ‘Unpacked’ Haven’t Unboxed New DLC, It’s Just Another Naff eShop Clone
The Switch eShop is full of crap these days, which is no surprise to us. The rise of ‘scam game‘ is a quick result, with results from keyword bingo titles like Cop Car Police Simulator Chase – Car driving and simulation game to more blatant acts of fraud. Today, an issue that straddles both sides has come to our attention.
As flagged above BlueSky via Daniel VuckovicThe eShop is currently titled ‘Unpack: Premium version‘. Now, you might think this is some kind of expansion to 2021’s favorite indie movies, Unzipbut you would be wrong. Instead, this ‘Deluxe Edition’ just takes on Witch Beam’s instantly recognizable name. And its basic format. Uh.
‘Unpacked: Premium Edition’ is currently listed above Australian And Japanese Convert eShops for $17.99 / 1,280 yenalthough a not so premium version called ‘Decoding cosmic dreams‘ is available on Europe And North America storefront, boasting key AI-generated artwork.
This one comes from publisher CGI LAB, which has released at least 13 titles on the eShop this year alone, including *ahem* visits EQUAL Video Game Store: Supermarket Simulator, Car Parking Legends: Driving and Parking Adventure And Anime Puzzle Quest: Magical Girls Adventure.
Like we said, this isn’t a rare occurrence these days, but it’s still disappointing when such a blatant copy appears. According to the eShop site, Universe Dreams allows you to “Open and arrange items in vibrant locations, each with its own unique atmosphere” and “Discover hidden treasures and exciting surprises.” taste as you create your perfect space”. Which bell to ring?
On the surface, Universe Dreams doesn’t follow on from Unpacking’s exciting or delightfully confusing story (it certainly doesn’t live up to its pixel art visuals), but there’s more than enough to suggest it’s misleading, we’d say. that.
Whether this will actually catch anyone remains to be seen, although the eShop has had so many of these methods in recent years that we expect to see another one appear soon.
As noted in the above article, ‘Switch 2’ is officially set to be backwards compatibleso we can’t help but wonder if Nintendo will implement any rules to reduce this type of content on its next hardware. God, we hope so.
