What Happened Here?
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Sypnosis:
What Happened Here is a short adventure horror game: around 30-45 minutes, exploring the classic horror trope of being locked inside a house and exploring it in order to go out.
You play as Elly, a 20 years old girl coming back from work one day to find her home completely changed and her roommates nowhere in sight!
Will you assist her to go out, and will you find the truth?
While it’s not needed to play the game, I would appreciate it if you’ll read Love in The Dark a prequel of sorts to What Happened Here
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Credits:
- Story: NoelTugy
- Art: NoelTugy
- Programming: NoelTugy
- BGM: NoelTugy
- Tilesets:
- DANI MACCARI
- NoelTugy
- Plugins:
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Development log
- What Happened Here Characters ProfileJul 28, 2025
- What Happened Here Bug Report #2Jul 25, 2025
- What Happened Here Bug Report #1Jul 23, 2025
- What Happened Here is Officially Released!Jul 21, 2025
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Hello. We really loved your game. The art design of the characters and the locations is beautiful, and the story was quite interesting, too.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable experience.
Do you mind if we translate your game into the Russian language?
I would really appreciate it!! :) I'm still working on moving the entire script into an excel file, I just took a bit of break from this project
Thank you! We've already translated the intro and the kitchen. Now, with your permission, we are going to continue working on the translation. It's gonna take a while though, considering the upcoming exams at the university, but I believe it will be finished with before the new year
Thank you so much! <3
Do you have an email so I could send you the link for the translation sheet? Also, good luck with your exams! <3
Can I contact you via discord? It'd be more convenient to me and there are some questions I'd like to ask you, too
Yes. My Discord account is goldenstarwishes
Sorry for not being as active
(Also has no commentary for pure game audio enjoyers.)
I enjoyed this game. Love the characters, the pixel arts/pixelcrafts, and the palette choice for the whole tone and atmosphere of the game. BGM/OST is also well done. (I would buy the OST one day)
There are some funny moments, and had some laugh, mostly inside.
I guess there are some few bugs that I didn't mentioned, such as, if you interact the altar on the sides, you don't get the cutscene event of like placing the necklace and the start of the laboratory segment. (shown in video)
Since you said that one of the endings is still in template, I didn't get to that one atm, and I would wait for the complete one. (might still do offscreen.)
Still overall I enjoyed the game. I wonder if the past of the alternate dimension will get some more details aside from what only told in dialogues/flashbacks.
Taken care of that bug! It'll be fixed on the next major update (including the secret ending)
Thank you so much for enjoying the game!! <3 I had fun working on it and I'm happy people are enjoying. I will watch the let's play as I'm very curious.
Regarding that past, it'll be more clear with Love In The Dark, which might or might not get a game!
game just crashes for me. I dunno what's causing, but it doesn't work immediately upon starting.
EDIT: tried on Steam and I guess that one works. I guess I'm going to stick to that one for now,
I'll check, which system are you running? I did develop it on MacOS and it works fine for me. But I have Windows so I can check it there
Windows, Steam ver. works fine. Here doesn't. It crashes upon selecting start game.
EDIT: Redownloaded the game here just to make sure I'm not insane or anything, and yeah still the same unfortunately.
Just realised you said it crashes when selecting start game, I will test this. It could be because the game has Steamworks inside the Itch.io version and it doesn't accept it.
I got the same crash on Windows, I will create a version without Steamworks and see what happens
I guess that might be the case.
Also one thing related to the game to ask, and a bit of spoilers,
so the secret endings are not available on this release, or not? (tho I see some in achievements sorry for like suddenly asking.)
All the endings are available besides the secret bad ending which isn't complete yet, in which you have to complete the game with the starting likeness points (2), you can get it, but the rest of the route that comes with it is currently a WIP. (You can get the achievement of the bad ending, but the complete experience isn't ready yet)
You can get the Manly, true and normal ending +the rest of the bad endings! <3
I updated the Windows version! Should work fine now!
Yep, tested it out and it finally works now!