What Never Was
Short description
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.
- Developer
- Acke Hallgren
- Publisher
- Acke Hallgren
- Release
- Fri, Jan 11, 2019
- Price
- Free
- Reviews
- 0
- Positive
- n/a
- Followers
- 8,698
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 4
- Genres
- Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play
- Features
- Partial Controller Support
- Tags
No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.
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Media
History
Tracking started Aug 27, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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