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Unforeseen Incidents

Backwoods Entertainment · Application Systems Heidelberg · 2018-05-23

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 24, 2018 (Mac), Jan 27, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), May 24, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 24, 2018 (Linux)

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.

4
playing now
87%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
7h
to beat · rushed 6h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Unforeseen Incidents is a 2018 point-and-click adventure game developed by German company Backwoods Entertainment. Players control a local handyman who investigates a mysterious viral outbreak in his town.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,070 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$11.99-40%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.99 at MacGameStore (2022-04-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 36 of 62 observed days · $5.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$9.992018-05-242026-08-302018-05-24 — best price $19.992018-08-24 — best price $19.992019-01-10 — best price $15.992019-04-08 — best price $13.992019-06-27 — best price $19.992019-10-07 — best price $19.992019-12-20 — best price $13.392020-02-13 — best price $13.992020-05-21 — best price $19.992020-08-30 — best price $19.992021-01-04 — best price $19.992021-04-23 — best price $13.392021-07-16 — best price $13.392021-11-15 — best price $19.992022-01-31 — best price $19.992022-05-02 — best price $9.992022-07-16 — best price $19.992022-10-10 — best price $19.992022-12-12 — best price $11.992023-03-20 — best price $11.992023-06-18 — best price $19.992023-09-30 — best price $11.992023-12-13 — best price $11.992024-02-14 — best price $11.992024-04-25 — best price $11.992024-07-17 — best price $11.992024-10-10 — best price $11.992024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-05 — best price $11.992025-08-09 — best price $19.992025-11-14 — best price $19.992026-02-26 — best price $11.992026-05-01 — best price $19.992026-08-25 — best price $11.992026-08-30 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3602026-05-30 — 12 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 9 pageviews2026-06-08 — 10 pageviews2026-06-11 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 5 pageviews2026-06-23 — 5 pageviews2026-06-26 — 11 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-02 — 17 pageviews2026-07-05 — 8 pageviews2026-07-08 — 15 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 14 pageviews2026-07-20 — 9 pageviews2026-07-23 — 7 pageviews2026-07-26 — 6 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 14 pageviews2026-08-04 — 7 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 8 pageviews2026-08-19 — 10 pageviews2026-08-22 — 7 pageviews2026-08-25 — 10 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
66.2%
earned "Something Fishy"
40.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)61716%18
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DFunnyCasualPuzzleMysteryStylizedAdventureComic BookConspiracyHand-drawn

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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