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Unforeseen Incidents

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of…

80 24 May 2018

Unforeseen Incidents is an adventure developed by Backwoods Entertainment, released 24 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Unforeseen Incidents is

Unforeseen Incidents is an adventure game developed by Backwoods Entertainment and released in 2018. It was published by Application Systems Heidelberg. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Unforeseen Incidents holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM and 1024MB VRAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Unforeseen Incidents launched on 24 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Unforeseen Incidents — frequently asked questions

When did Unforeseen Incidents come out?
Unforeseen Incidents was released on 24 May 2018 for Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Unforeseen Incidents?
At minimum, Unforeseen Incidents needs 1.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1024MB VRAM graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Unforeseen Incidents?
The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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