As a dedicated employee of the Ship Inc., whatever questionable stuff you want shipped to your doorstep, I don't question. I pack it, tape it, and scan it. I see nothing, I hear nothing. I have bills, a mortgage, and kids to feed.
EDIT: I just found out that I'm a compulsive gambler. What are we doing, self?
It was a cute chill game... up until I bought the book company deal and they dropped a cutesy parody of Harry Potter onto me.
This is legitimately a deal-breaker. We're seeing the effect that continuing to consume Harry Potter and giving royalties to its author has on trans people and other vulnerable communities. So why do we think it's okay to drop in a cutesy parody of them like it's nothing?
If the devs see this and decide to remove the Harry Potter parody, I will reconsider this review. But for now, I'm straight-up uninstalling this game.
I came to pack boxes, but Ship, Inc. wrapped me in cozy chaos and fragile fun! 📦💨
8/10, would stress-pack bubble wrap under extreme time pressure again.
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If this game wasn't dirt cheap, I would be refunding it. The gameplay is boring, finicky, and buggy. I played for 30 minutes and I have completely lost interest. It's the same boring loop, and not in a cozy unpacking sort of way even on chill mode. The game doesn't explain things like needing to buy certain stickers, and then a place to put those stickers in at all. So it punishes you for not picking options you didn't know existed. Hard pass. Such a shame.
My rating: 7/10
SUPER addicting! I can't get enough! Only complain I have is not there being a proper tutorial. I had a bit of a tutorial in the demo but when the full game was out and I had access to all these other new things, there was no new tutorial! However, I did end up figuring it all out. I do recommend this game if you want to kill time!
EDIT: TUTORIAL WAS FIXED! I PLAYED WAY TOO EARLY I GUESS!
I've just packed plutonium and a toy car into the same box and shipped them. Very accurate.
Amazingly fiddly game where you pack boxes, load them to truck and send them away. Perfect to play while watching streams and video essays. Cute art and great soundtrack too!
Bought this yesterday. It's been the most fun I've had for a small amount of money in quite some time. It's approachable to learn and has a sense of progression and achievement. I think it's worth buying, especially on discount.
From what I've seen, it looks like the dev is responsive and fixes bugs as they arise.
If you like job simulators and "checking" games (like Papers, Please) this isn't a bad bet.
seeing the "very positive" reviews was a mirage... this game is very lackluster and the progress can be over as soon as you start. the only time the game gets hard is when it feels unfair. it doesn't feel well made.
I do recommend this game because it is super relaxing (on the chill mode) and it's fun. Now those are the pros, now the cons. There's a tutorial and it adequately tells you how to play the game and that is it! There's no tool tips so everything else you have to figure out yourself. Not sure if you need those new stickers for package content, better buy them because there's no levels to dictate when your orders will scale up to broken stuff, liquids or radioactive stuff. Then there's the Reporting of bad stuff, it tells you (sometimes) when to report but just because you reported on 2 Axes, one Axe with a hoodie (super suspicious) no report. Then some of the mechanics are not explained and there's no tool tips to help you figure it out. Do I think this game is fully finished, yes but there's so many bugs it makes me wonder if this game was tested at all.(I haven't gotten any game-breaking bugs).
The game is really good in making you feel like you're working in a shipping company as receiving, packer, and courier. Really engrosses you into attention to detail
Ive only played normal so far and I almost have no complaints with the mechanics that are in the game, The only thing I dont like is "Fixing" fragile items. That never happens in logistics and that minigame just slows the pace down.
Instead, I opt for a different mechanic where you can report broken/cracked items to like a supervisor line, alongside the mechanic of reporting to the police, then sending it.
Also pest control is something I really love to see which does happen in logistics, Like bugs, silverfish, or rats coming into received boxes which also can be reported to pest control and/or bug sprayed.
Like a threat maybe such as eating cardboard boxes, making the goods dirty, messing up the desk as it scurries about, and such. Like the the punk you have to pepper spray in lost but found.
Enjoying my time here and cant wait for the updates to the game.
Update: Now i find game breaking bugs, Ive been soft-locked out of my save somehow one of the boxes that came in doesnt want to close and be recycled, Including item clipping when im packing somehow does phase through the box and out underneath. leading me to wrong order penalties with it not being my fault
It happened a few times and its getting irritating. I thought i was hallucinating at first but when ive expected it later especially during the late game I can confirm it happened a few times.
I went back in and it reset my game to nothing
The lag on late game is really bad too, When you have a lot of items on screen for shipment the game just lags and on top of that the bugs are still there too which makes it horrendous.
Needs improvement *Sigh*
My progress was suddenly gone and whenever I press continue or new game it wont let me do anything. It is as if it stopped working all together.
I had to ask for a refund, which is a shame because I really liked the game.
Quite a relaxing game with an addictive game loop. If it weren't for the game breaking bugs, I'd recommend.
Got about an hour in, a few in game days, before the game crashed. When loading it back up, my game file had reverted to day 0 (eliminating all my progress). I even tried to start a new file to no success - my cursor couldn't click on anything.
As it stands, I wouldn't recommend the game. Maybe in a few months after the game breaking bugs are fixed, but not now.
Really fun game to pass the time or watch a video to! After playing for an hour or so, it does get a bit repetitive and I wish there was a background storyline or something to keep me more engaged. House upgrades? Bigger stakes maybe?
I just bought this game and it's perfect, i love it! The only thing that made me kinda regretting buying it without trying the demo first is that I started with the normal mode (i was at day 10) but then i wanted to try the hard mode just to know how much faster was it but then i wanted to go back to my normal mode and i couldn't! So my personal suggestion to you is to let us save a game for each mode! So that if one day i'm feeling more chill i can just pick the normal mode and continue where i've left off the last time and so on!
Very buggy! I had to restart the game 4 times before tutorials showed up properly. Additionally, the setting menu was buggy. If I tried to mess with the audio, the settings options grayed out to the point where I could not make out if I was lowering master volume or music volume. I had to restart for it to fix.
The game just came out so for the above mentioned bugs I'd imagine they will be within the first few hot fix updates.
For the game play itself, eh, it is mediocre. If you played their Lost and Found game, same exact thing except instead of being an item collection game that items are slowly distributed, this is an item collection game that organizes the items to be distributed en mass. It is okay for what it is but kind of boring.
As a dedicated employee of the Ship Inc., whatever questionable stuff you want shipped to your doorstep, I don't question. I pack it, tape it, and scan it. I see nothing, I hear nothing. I have bills, a mortgage, and kids to feed.
EDIT: I just found out that I'm a compulsive gambler. What are we doing, self?
It was a cute chill game... up until I bought the book company deal and they dropped a cutesy parody of Harry Potter onto me.
This is legitimately a deal-breaker. We're seeing the effect that continuing to consume Harry Potter and giving royalties to its author has on trans people and other vulnerable communities. So why do we think it's okay to drop in a cutesy parody of them like it's nothing?
If the devs see this and decide to remove the Harry Potter parody, I will reconsider this review. But for now, I'm straight-up uninstalling this game.
I came to pack boxes, but Ship, Inc. wrapped me in cozy chaos and fragile fun! 📦💨
8/10, would stress-pack bubble wrap under extreme time pressure again.
Follow my curator page for more shipping shenanigans and cardboard carnage!
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42602807-Osiris-Reviews/
If this game wasn't dirt cheap, I would be refunding it. The gameplay is boring, finicky, and buggy. I played for 30 minutes and I have completely lost interest. It's the same boring loop, and not in a cozy unpacking sort of way even on chill mode. The game doesn't explain things like needing to buy certain stickers, and then a place to put those stickers in at all. So it punishes you for not picking options you didn't know existed. Hard pass. Such a shame.
My rating: 7/10
SUPER addicting! I can't get enough! Only complain I have is not there being a proper tutorial. I had a bit of a tutorial in the demo but when the full game was out and I had access to all these other new things, there was no new tutorial! However, I did end up figuring it all out. I do recommend this game if you want to kill time!
EDIT: TUTORIAL WAS FIXED! I PLAYED WAY TOO EARLY I GUESS!
I've just packed plutonium and a toy car into the same box and shipped them. Very accurate.
Amazingly fiddly game where you pack boxes, load them to truck and send them away. Perfect to play while watching streams and video essays. Cute art and great soundtrack too!
Bought this yesterday. It's been the most fun I've had for a small amount of money in quite some time. It's approachable to learn and has a sense of progression and achievement. I think it's worth buying, especially on discount.
From what I've seen, it looks like the dev is responsive and fixes bugs as they arise.
If you like job simulators and "checking" games (like Papers, Please) this isn't a bad bet.
seeing the "very positive" reviews was a mirage... this game is very lackluster and the progress can be over as soon as you start. the only time the game gets hard is when it feels unfair. it doesn't feel well made.
I do recommend this game because it is super relaxing (on the chill mode) and it's fun. Now those are the pros, now the cons. There's a tutorial and it adequately tells you how to play the game and that is it! There's no tool tips so everything else you have to figure out yourself. Not sure if you need those new stickers for package content, better buy them because there's no levels to dictate when your orders will scale up to broken stuff, liquids or radioactive stuff. Then there's the Reporting of bad stuff, it tells you (sometimes) when to report but just because you reported on 2 Axes, one Axe with a hoodie (super suspicious) no report. Then some of the mechanics are not explained and there's no tool tips to help you figure it out. Do I think this game is fully finished, yes but there's so many bugs it makes me wonder if this game was tested at all.(I haven't gotten any game-breaking bugs).
The game is really good in making you feel like you're working in a shipping company as receiving, packer, and courier. Really engrosses you into attention to detail
Ive only played normal so far and I almost have no complaints with the mechanics that are in the game, The only thing I dont like is "Fixing" fragile items. That never happens in logistics and that minigame just slows the pace down.
Instead, I opt for a different mechanic where you can report broken/cracked items to like a supervisor line, alongside the mechanic of reporting to the police, then sending it.
Also pest control is something I really love to see which does happen in logistics, Like bugs, silverfish, or rats coming into received boxes which also can be reported to pest control and/or bug sprayed.
Like a threat maybe such as eating cardboard boxes, making the goods dirty, messing up the desk as it scurries about, and such. Like the the punk you have to pepper spray in lost but found.
Enjoying my time here and cant wait for the updates to the game.
Update: Now i find game breaking bugs, Ive been soft-locked out of my save somehow one of the boxes that came in doesnt want to close and be recycled, Including item clipping when im packing somehow does phase through the box and out underneath. leading me to wrong order penalties with it not being my fault
It happened a few times and its getting irritating. I thought i was hallucinating at first but when ive expected it later especially during the late game I can confirm it happened a few times.
I went back in and it reset my game to nothing
The lag on late game is really bad too, When you have a lot of items on screen for shipment the game just lags and on top of that the bugs are still there too which makes it horrendous.
Needs improvement *Sigh*
My progress was suddenly gone and whenever I press continue or new game it wont let me do anything. It is as if it stopped working all together.
I had to ask for a refund, which is a shame because I really liked the game.
Quite a relaxing game with an addictive game loop. If it weren't for the game breaking bugs, I'd recommend.
Got about an hour in, a few in game days, before the game crashed. When loading it back up, my game file had reverted to day 0 (eliminating all my progress). I even tried to start a new file to no success - my cursor couldn't click on anything.
As it stands, I wouldn't recommend the game. Maybe in a few months after the game breaking bugs are fixed, but not now.
Really fun game to pass the time or watch a video to! After playing for an hour or so, it does get a bit repetitive and I wish there was a background storyline or something to keep me more engaged. House upgrades? Bigger stakes maybe?
I just bought this game and it's perfect, i love it! The only thing that made me kinda regretting buying it without trying the demo first is that I started with the normal mode (i was at day 10) but then i wanted to try the hard mode just to know how much faster was it but then i wanted to go back to my normal mode and i couldn't! So my personal suggestion to you is to let us save a game for each mode! So that if one day i'm feeling more chill i can just pick the normal mode and continue where i've left off the last time and so on!
Very buggy! I had to restart the game 4 times before tutorials showed up properly. Additionally, the setting menu was buggy. If I tried to mess with the audio, the settings options grayed out to the point where I could not make out if I was lowering master volume or music volume. I had to restart for it to fix.
The game just came out so for the above mentioned bugs I'd imagine they will be within the first few hot fix updates.
For the game play itself, eh, it is mediocre. If you played their Lost and Found game, same exact thing except instead of being an item collection game that items are slowly distributed, this is an item collection game that organizes the items to be distributed en mass. It is okay for what it is but kind of boring.
