I Had a Friend is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game set in the unsettling atmosphere of an abandoned family house. You play as Richard, a foreign tech university student living in Germany. One night, as you drift off to sleep at your computer, your phone suddenly rings. A message from your mother, Hannah, lights up the screen. She informs you that your father, Tom, has been in a serious accident and is now hospitalized. With no one else to care for the family cat, Felix, Hannah asks you to return home