What Never Was is a free-to-play adventure game with a first-person view. Somewhere in the late 2000s, Howard James Wright, an old but very kind man, dies. Leaving behind many books and memorabilia he had collected over the years, as well as his beloved granddaughter, Sarah. After taking on the difficult task of cleaning out her grandfather's attic, she discovers that not everything in her grandfather's attic is just junk.