Unforeseen Incidents

Great game! Enjoyed it thoroughly! Loved the characters and the plot. The art style is awesome, and I really vibed with the lore and worldbuilding in general. The voice actors did an amazing job too! Personally, I found the puzzles weren't too hard but also not too easy. What I enjoyed most about the game is probably the soundtrack itself—it fit so well with the world and plot. Apart from a few visual glitches and lines where the voiceovers were not triggered, I didn't run into any issues. The only thing I found a little strange was that the ending felt a little rushed compared to the previous chapters. There are also a few loose ends that I wish they tied together, but overall this game has earned a soft spot in my heart! I highly recommend it. :)

It's not an awful game, I just don't like it. You know those "funny" remarks in point and click games when you click something irrelevant? Yeah, this game is chock-full of them. There's no hint system, the solutions are a bit vague, the problems themselves are vague, (what do I even do next?) you go about same places a lot, the characters are a bit off, the artstyle is eh... All in all, it's not awful, but none of it is very good.

This game is not that interesting, but if you're a fan of classic point and click adventure games like the Monkey Island series, then it's worth a playthrough. It's not super hard, but also probably not super friendly to newcomers of the genre (i.e., not like The Drifter, which was way too easy). The puzzles in this game are medium-level difficulty for an adventure game. I was never really stuck for very long. As far as adventure games go, the storyline is okay. The characters and VA are okay. The main character is so mid - you don't feel anything towards him. Also the dialogue is not funny. So being not funny + not interesting storyline and mid puzzles make for a super-mid game. I finished it b/c I love adventure games. And also maybe takes place in Canada (?), which is a plus in my books. The art and environments are pretty nice, easy on the eyes, but not necessarily amazing. The game is kinda janky, it lags a lot at times, especially after it's been running for a while. I feel like it's not optimized properly. It does not have cloud saves, which is annoying if you switch computers frequently. Luckily you can jump to chapters, so it's good enough to continue and/or achievement hunt. The achievements are okay, there are some missables, which require a bit of replay, but nothing crazy.

A lot of the negative reviews are what I would say for most point and click games, but not this one. I always have to look up a lot of stuff with point and click games because all the connections are always arbitrary or make no sense or I would never think of solving something that specific way the devs make you and always you just have to go back and forth over and over again to the same places. But not with this game, I found most of the puzzles made sense, there was minimal wandering and having to go back and forth. Still looked some stuff up (stupid harbor computer!!), but it turned out I was always going in the right direction and just needed an extra clue a handful of times. I think the negative reviews are too harsh, or people haven't played other point and clicks. This is another example of Steam needing a proper star rating or at least having a middle thumb. I love the art direction, it's what made me get this game in the first place. I was also intrigued by the story in the trailer and it didn't dissapoint me the entire time I played. There are a lot of optimization issues like load screens taking a long time or being black for a while, or loading the main tool takes a second, or the zoom in when characters talk to each other has low res art. The low res bothered me the most, but at the same time....It's a studios first game and I've seen worse by bigger studios. The animation was obviously done by non-animators, the walk cycles are laughable. But honestly, even as an artist and animator myself, this didn't bother me too much since the animation is minimal and I liked so many other things about this game. I think this game was genuinely good. I liked the story and the art and the dialogue and the voice acting, it truly drew me in! Probably one of the best point and click games I've played in a long time.

An adventure game that has aged even better with time. I played this in 2026 and themes like pandemics, conspiracies and a couple characters on both sides of the political aisles are depicted, without feeling exclusionary nor awkward in retrospect. Besides that it has a charming artstyle, very witty and funny characters and some of the greatest puzzles in these games, that both requires you to think, but you will very rarely need to look up a solution, a very hard balance to strike. A great game, that could stand toe to toe with the greats, if it was released in a time, where people appreciated this genre.

Las grandes aventuras gráficas al estilo clásico (apuntar y clicar) siempre han puesto el listón muy alto en eso de la imaginación y Unforeseen Incidents es como el examen de repetición cuando tu maestra no te quiere suspender porque, o bien no das para más y estás casi-casi, o bien tu suspenso generaría un cataclismo burocrático tal que es mejor que sigas avanzando por la vida hasta que alguien te dé el sopapo que andas buscando desde hace tiempo. Harper Pendrell, el protagonista, simboliza el juego, así en general: la pereza. Es un juego corto, con una historia simple y un desenlace todavía más simple. Recomendarlo es más porque me da pena justificar el "No recomendarlo", exactamente igual que tu suspenso. Recuerdo aquel juego de furros que una vez tuve la genial idea de no recomendarlo y me llovieron los descalificativos por estar en contra de la humanización de otras especies. Por la simple razón de que bastante tienen con soportar el mundo que les hemos montado como para que nos disfracemos de ellos y aparentemos ser uno de ellos. Suena a pitorreo, a Elon Musk vistiendo como el yonki que tanto miedo te daba cuando ibas a por churros para el desayuno los domingos por la mañana y él trataba de volver a su narco piso desde el after a duras penas. La historia de Harper empieza a ser una tontería cuando la convierten en una tontería. Pero el drama de fondo es gordo. Imagínate el inicio de una pandemia con miles de muertos y que tú seas el absoluto protagonista del embrollo cuando te esforzaste toda tu vida en que nadie se fijase en tí. Por no hacer, ni trataste de buscar un trabajo y vives en una casa cuyas persianas son cartones pegados a las ventanas. Parecería una historia grandilocuente y, sin embargo, es una chorrada. Y me da pena otra vez. Habiendo historias tan buenas en el mundo real, con gente realmente interesante, en el mundo del videojuego, a veces, aparecen personajes tontos haciendo tonterías y te das cuenta de que lo de llorente no es casualidad. Las aventuras gráficas del pasado eran rollo Day of the Tentacle, o Sam & Max, completamente absurdas y con combinaciones de objetos imposibles de razonar. Ahora me intentan contar una buena historia pero parece que les haya dado pereza. Y me da pena porque sus desarrolladores están a la que cae intentando ayudar a la comunidad a resolver unos cuantos bugs que van a apareciendo en el juego. Así que pongo el pulgar para arriba pero temo que la semana que viene haya olvidado hasta el título del juego. Y me vuelve a dar pena. Me va a dar depresión de tanta pena que me da todo lo relacionado con Unforeseen Incidents, sobre todo porque el Capítulo 1 prometía un poco más. Vivimos tiempos oscuros dirigidos por gente mala a la que apoya gente mala. Necesitamos juegos valientes o terminaremos todos como Kurt Cobain.

...Good... ;D rgr&out

I finished the game in around 15 hours with minimal cheats/hints so it's on the shorter side as far as this type of game goes... Just as I felt we were reaching the final chapter, the game ended which left a tiny bit of disappointment but that's my subjective opinion and it's an excellent game none the less. The hand-drawn art is really nice and makes a welcome change from the retro pixel art which pretty much every point and click adventure game uses nowadays. The game feels very 'Monkey Island' to me in the art and general gameplay style and that's a good thing. Before this, I came off the back of finishing Thimbleweed Park and Unavowed, and while I enjoyed those games more (especially Thimbleweed, which is a GOAT game in this genre for me), this definitely held its own as a really solid game in this genre. My pet hate with this genre of games are puzzles and item actions which make absolutely no sense and you would never work out without hints... But this game had a minimal number of those. Most problems and puzzles made sense and were achievable with a bit of common sense, lateral thinking and closely paying attention... Which is how it should be. Overall, highly recommended and if you're a fan of point and click games this should be on your 'must play' list.