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What Never Was

by Acke Hallgren

  • Released Jan 10, 2019
  • Free
  • 1 h to beat
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

95%positive reviews

4,844 positive278 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Charming, clever puzzles

  • Free and atmospheric

Cons

  • Very short and demo-like

  • Frustrating controls

Mixed

  • Some call it a lovely teaser, others say it is too short

Media

Trailer (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 7 64-bit (requires 64 bit OS)

Processor: Dual Core Processor, 2.5 GHz or higher

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: DX11 compatible video card

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 700 MB available space

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What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.

Sometime in the late 2000s, Howard James…

Ratings

  • 69IGDB players29 ratings
  • 69Overall29 scores

Time to beat

  • 1 hStory and extraswith side content

Details

Publisher

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English

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