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January 18, 2022

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Author: Application Systems Heidelberg

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.

The game releases on Nintendo Switch Jan. 27th 2022.

eStore links:
America: https://ashgames.com/UnforeseenIncidentsSwitchUS
Europe: https://ashgames.com/UnforeseenIncidentsSwitchEU

Embargo Alert

  • Unforeseen Incidents reviews are under embargo until 6:01am CET on January 27th - don't post your review before then!

  • If you want to post hands-on impressions or video before the embargo lifts, please end preview coverage when chapter 1 ends.

 

Watch the brand new release trailer now on YouTube
 

About Unforeseen Incidents

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. When small-town handyman Harper Pendrell meets a dying woman in the street, he unwittingly stumbles into a diabolical conspiracy – a mystery only he can solve. An unknown disease is spreading across the country, and between them a scientist, a reporter and a reclusive artist hold the key to stopping it. A perilous journey awaits, and every step brings Harper closer to a cabal of dangerous fanatics. Before he knows it, he finds himself in a fight for the future of humankind armed only with his trusty multi-tool.

Can Harper find the courage to expose the truth and prevent an epidemic, even if it means succumbing to contagion himself? Join Harper and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game from Backwoods Entertainment and Application Systems Heidelberg.

Features

  • Uncover and solve the dark mysteries behind the ongoing catastrophe and try and save the human race!

  • Explore plenty of intriguing locations with challenging puzzles

  • Listen to an elaborately arranged soundtrack and full English or German voice acting

  • Enjoy a classical style mystery adventure game

  • Behold beautiful, lovingly hand-painted 2D graphics with over 60 backgrounds

  • Meet lots of interesting characters

Assets & Links:

To Help You Play Unforeseen Incidents

  • If you get stuck and need a hint, let us know - we'll be happy to give you a nudge in the right direction!

  • A walkthrough is available on request.


Release Details

  • Unforeseen Incidents will release in the eStore America, Europe and Australia for a price of US$19.99 • 19.99 Euro • £17.99.

  • Supported features: Handheld mode, Tabletop mode, TV mode, Save Data Cloud

  • Compatible controllers: Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

  • Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian

  • Voice Over: English, German

Past adventure game releases for Nintendo Switch 

Upcoming narrative Games by Application Systems in 2022

While we're at it, here's what else we have coming up:

Lamplight City
The Gateway to Vespuccia, the City of Air and Light, Lamplight City - the thriving port city of New Bretagne is a beacon of progress and industrial advancement in the New World. Yet beneath the promises of a shining 19th-century future, the city rests upon foundations of poverty, class struggle, and crime. For police detective turned private investigator Miles Fordham, Lamplight City's shadowy corners are just part of the territory. But with his former partner constantly speaking to him from beyond the grave, his grip on sanity is slowly loosening. Can Miles find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart? Lamplight City is a detective adventure set in an alternate steampunk-ish "Victorian" past.

Status: In the middle of final beta testing. - Scheduled for Q1/2022
Lamplight City press kit: ashgames.com/press/Lamplight_City.html

Growbot
Growbot is a 2D point and click adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a beautiful biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens, you play as Nara, a growbot in training to become a captain. When your station home is attacked by rapidly growing crystals, it's down to you to save it.
Scheduled for Q3/2022
Growbot press kit: ashgames.com/press/Growbot.html

Mutropolis
It is the year 5000, and the greatest achievements in human history are forgotten. The pyramids, the Mona Lisa, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air – forgotten.
Forgotten by everyone except Henry Dijon and his ragtag team of archaeologists. They left Mars to dig up lost treasures on the wild and inhospitable Planet Earth. Life is sweet, until Henry’s professor is kidnapped, and thing start to get... weird.
Join Henry on a freewheeling adventure through the ruins of our civilization. Ask questions like, “Who was this Sony Walkman? And where did he walk?” Unearth extraordinary relics, rescue Professor Totel, and be the first to enter the legendary city of Mutropolis.
Scheduled for Q3/2022
Mutropolis press kit: ashgames.com/press/Mutropolis.html

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