What Happened 2020
- Adventure, Indie
What Happened is a nightmarish first-person exploration of anxiety and depression from the perspective of American high school student, Stiles.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and character-led.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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Screen RantDylan WarmanJul 20204/5 starsOverall, What Happened delivers an impactful, thought-provoking experience that exemplifies the eccentric dangers of mental illness.
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GamePittRob PittAug 20208/10What Happened was confusing, shocking, depressing, and increased my anxiety, which I believe was its goal from the start. Step into the shoes of a young mentally ill teenager who has just lost his father and finds comfort in drugs, it’s an experience unlike any other as you delve into his thoughts and emotions, visualising his fears and paranoia as disturbing manifestations. Although I found it hard to understand what was happening at times, the game made me feel lost, confused, helpless and alone, pulling me further into the world of Stiles and how he was feeling. The story felt like it was a little too long as there were a few sequences which dragged out the game without adding context, but overall it was a thought-provoking game which I can’t wait to re-experience on consoles in the near future.
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GameSpewKim SnaithJul 20207/10A more succinct journey would have been more effective, and some gameplay elements don’t quite pay off, but to say it’s been created by a small team, What Happened deserves to be praised.
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VGChartzPaul BroussardAug 20202/10Without any unique selling point that it handles at least competently, What Happened is ultimately hard to qualify as anything more than awful.
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DualShockersMehrdad KhayyatAug 20204/10What Happened sacrifices almost everything to achieve an impressive story, but in the end, it's not worthwhile.
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Snippets via OpenCritic, where 35% of critics recommend it.
About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Released
- July 30, 2020
- Modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
IGDB rating 4.0/10 from 1 ratings.
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