- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - ASH GAMES Publisher Sale 2026 - 25 August 2026
Event InformationWe're part of the ASH GAMES Publisher Sale Event from Aug. 26 - Sep. 9. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - Curious Odyssey Sale 2026 - 15 March 2026
Event InformationWe're part of the Curious Odyssey Sales Event from Mar. 11 - Mar. 18. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - AdventureX Sale 2025 - 24 November 2025
Event InformationWe're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 19 - Dec. 2. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - AdventureX Sale 2025 - 23 November 2025
Event InformationWe're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 19 - Dec. 2. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - AdventureX Sale 2025 - 21 November 2025
Event InformationWe're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 19 - Dec. 2. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - ASHGAMES 40 years anniversary Sale - 19 August 2025
Event InformationApplication Systems Heidelberg (aka ASH GAMES) founded October 1st of 1985 turns 40 this year. We're celebrating with a big Anniversary Publisher Sale! Unforeseen Incidents is part of this sale from August 19 - September 02. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayVolker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- Update notes November 21, 2024 - 21 November 2024
This release contains several bugfixes - mainly for the door on the Island, for the cave and in the library. In addition it also contains some improvements on the SteamDeck and on widescreen monitors!
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - AdventureX Sale 2024 - 11 November 2024
Event Information We're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 4 - Nov. 11. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplay Volker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- "Unforeseen Incidents" Behind the scenes - ASH Games Publisher Sale 2023 - 28 August 2023
Event Information Unforeseen Incidents is part of the ASH Games Publisher Sale from August 23 - August 31. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplay Volker Ritzhaupt (Application Systems Heidelberg) meets with the Backwoods Entertainment team: Marcus Bäumer (Story & Programming) Tristan Berger (Music & Sound) Matthias Nikutta (Artwork) They talk about the development of the game and what the inspiration for the game was. Some challenges are mentioned as well as how the game evolved from being a vague idea into something that ended up winning the German Computer Games Award 2019 for Best Youth Game. About Unforeseen Incidents Watch the broadcast on the store page
- Fixing many issues... - 23 December 2022
This update should fix most of the issues that have been reported for the last build - it won't be able to fix damaged save-games though... Several issues are specific to users that are playing in German and on Windows-PCs. This and several additional issues have been addressed in the new builds and should not occur when starting a new game. Skipping of cutscenes has been reworked completely for this build and quickly pressing on dialogue-options should not confuse the game any more. Several issues that occurred in specific levels have also been taken care of. Sorry once again for the issues you faced in the current builds!
- Major Update: Full Steam Deck support - 4 July 2022
Major Update We have created a new version of Unforeseen Incidents that can be played with the gamepad and has passed Valve's Steam Deck review. This version has many changes to the UI and to the game itself and the code has been optimized heavily. So all in all: have fun and stay healthy! Features Controller support added Compatible with Steam Deck UI update for menues, since they didn't work with a controller before Various bug fixes Heavy reduction in file size due to better compression. This is also the main reason for the relatively big download size of the update, but it will actually save disk space on your machine.
- Tool-Fanatic Protagonists Bundle - 22 February 2021
Tool-Fanatic Protagonists Bundle Harper (Unforeseen Incidents) loves his Multitool and he's able to repair almost anything with it. Despite living in the 50th century, Henry (Mutropolis) is old-fashioned and prefers a good old trowel for his archaeological adventures. They're both a bit nerdy about their tools. Buy the bundle here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18956/Tool_Fanatic_Protagonists_Bundle/ Mutropolis has launched MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned. After five years of hard work by Bea and Pablo (Pirita Studio, Madrid) the new mystery point & click adventure Mutropolis finally has launched. Here are some reactions by the press the product has recei…
- Award Nominations - 26 November 2018
Public Voting For Awards If you like Unforeseen Incidents you can nominate it for the Steam Awards as "Game of The Year" right here (we know that "Most fun with a multitool" would be more appropriate but unfortunately this is not a choice they offer). There is a public voting going on Game Debate where Unforeseen Incidents is one of the four nominees for Adventure Game Of The Year 2018. See here https://www.game-debate.com/awards/2018/best-adventure Nominated for the German Developer Award 2018 We are proud to say that Unforeseen Incidents is in the final three for three categories at the "Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2018" award. We're nominated as: Best Graphics 2018 Best Game Design 2018 Best Story 2018 See here: http://deutscherentwicklerpreis.de/nominierte-2018
- Soundtrack and Artbook DLCs available - 22 October 2018
Unforeseen Incidents - Deluxe Edition and DLCs We have added two DLCs and a Deluxe Bundle to our Unforeseen Incidents offering. Unforeseen Incidents - Official Game Soundtrack "Unforeseen Incidents - Official Game Soundtrack" features 35 tracks with over 80 minutes of original music! - by Tristan Berger. Click here for the Soundtrack The Art of Unforeseen Incidents The Art of Unforeseen Incidents is a 139 pages PDF - it was a crazy ride, with ups and downs. The style of Unforeseen Incidents evolved a lot over time, as you can see by looking at the really old artwork from back when work on the game started. Throughout the artist's studies, he did a lot of illustrative work and, being inspired by the work of Ian McQue and Robert Valley, he came up with his very own style. Click here for the Artbook Unforeseen Incidents - Deluxe Edition This bundle contains the game, the Soundtrack, and th…
- Update 06/20/18 - 20 June 2018
Update We have uploaded a bug fixed version Thursday June the 20th. This includes fixes of all bugs known to us by June 18th, including the ones posted in reviews and on the community forum. For details please refer to our community post here: steamcommunity.com/app/501790/discussions/0/1727575977522126000/
- Update and Press reviews - 8 June 2018
Update We have uploaded a bug fixed version Thursday June the 7th. This includes fixes of all bugs known to us by June 6th, including the ones posted in reviews and on the community forum. For details please refer to our community post here: steamcommunity.com/app/501790/discussions/0/1694923613862126818/ Press coverage Many reviews are still pending. But here is a selection of those that have been posted already. I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve enjoyed a long-form point-and-click adventure this much. It reminds me why I love the genre so much. RECOMMENDED - Rock Paper Shotgun Whether you have missed the traditional adventures or want to see what the olds loved from the genre, Unforeseen Incidents is the adventure you wanted. Do not miss it! 90% - Adventure Advocate (Greece) ... every detail on-screen feels full of personality - PC World Backwoods Entertainment succeeds in…
- Wot I Think: Unforeseen Incidents - 25 May 2018
Oh my! Oh what an actual proper treat. Ladies, gentlemen, humans of Earth, I have for you a really good point-and-click adventure game! It’s Unforeseen Incidents , and here’s wot I think: (more…)
- Release Trailer 2018 available - 13 April 2018
We have just posted the brand new release trailer for Unforeseen Incidents here on the Steam store page and on YouTube - this is the English version of the trailer. A German version can be found here.
- Accidentally save the world in 'classical' adventure game Unforeseen Incidents - 11 April 2018
The setup for Unforeseen Incidents contains the most capital-A Adventure Game line I've ever heard: "Before he knows it, he finds himself in a fight for the future of humankind armed only with his trusty multi-tool." Inadvertently saving the world using a bunch of random doodads: bam, every adventure game ever.  The "he" in there is Harper Pendrell, a handyman who finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy far beyond the means of hitting it to get it to work. "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," joint developers Backwoods Entertainment and Application Systems Heidelberg said on Steam . "A perilous journey awaits, and every step brings Harper closer to a cabal of dangerous fanatics."  Unforeseen Incidents is billed as a "classical" mystery adventure game, but its art…
