What Happened

Critic reviews

• Adventure Gamers

  Sean Robertson · Oct 27, 2021

  4.0

  What Happened is an abstract first-person acid trip through a troubled teenaged mind that is impressive both visually and aurally, but it has very little gameplay and fumbles the delivery of its narrative with barely anything new to say through the entire second half.

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• 3rd-strike.com

  JenRox · Oct 06, 2020

  4.8

  Taking on such a delicate theme such as mental health is very admirable and brave. This subject needs to be highlighted more on any platform to create awareness and understanding. It’s quite important that topics like this get properly worked out. Unfortunately, this is not the case for What Happened. Even though the attempt is much appreciated, it lacks in a lot of areas. The game is too cinematic for its own good. There’s little to no actual gameplay, and most visuals feel more like it’s created for the dramatic effect just for the sake to shock us.

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• Dual Shockers

  Mehrdad Khayyat · Aug 27, 2020

  4.0

  Unfortunately, Genius Slackers has invested most of their time on storytelling with What Happened, but at the end of the day, it turned out to be the game’s worst aspect. If they tried to add more variation to the gameplay elements rather than focusing on an undeveloped story, the result could’ve been much better than what it is now.

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• HookedGamers

  Quinn Levandoski · Aug 11, 2020

  9.0

  What Happened is not the kind of game you want to jump into on a weekend for some light-hearted fun. The game takes its subject matter seriously and delivers an experience that’s not “fun” so much as it is emotionally engaging. Like watching a sad movie, you need to go into What Happened with the right mindset and expectations. If you do, there’s a wonderful journey to be found.

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• GameSpew

  Kim Snaith · Jul 30, 2020

  7.0

  For the most part though, travelling through Stiles’ mind is a gripping journey. It’s at times emotional, other times horrifying; there’s no shortage of disturbing imagery, from hellish landscapes ripped straight from Dante’s Inferno to a short scene in which Stiles munches his way through a bowl of severed fingers. It’s not for the faint-hearted.

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• PCInvasion

  Lawrence Le · Jul 30, 2020

  4.0

  The game is two hours too long, repeating familiar narrative beats like a broken record. Its horror-infused puzzle solving seldom captures Stiles’ internal conflict — its diverse visuals being far more potent. More often than not, What Happened is a better sight-seeing trip than it is an exploration of anxiety and depression.

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