Gaming

'We Happy Few' brings little gaming joy despite great visuals

Matthew Vice is less than impressed with this role-playing-ish action game that's set in an alternate reality where the Nazis won World War 2

09 September 2018 - 00:00 By Matthew Vice

When talking about games, the term "indie" is usually understood to mean small, simplistic games developed by tiny studios, but in the case of We Happy Few, I prefer to use the film understanding of indie: artsy, pretentious and definitely not for everyone.
We Happy Few comes to us from small Canadian studio Compulsion Games. The closest thing I can liken it to is the Bioshock series, both in terms of gameplay and story, although in this case the story is less Ayn Rand and more George Orwell. It's an immersive first-person, role-playing-ish action game set in an alternate 1960s British town called Wellington Wells after the Nazis won World War 2.
The place is oddly cheery, but that's only until you start to uncover evidence of the great shame the inhabitants of the town bear and the mood-improving drug, Joy, they're all required to take.
WATCH | The game trailer for We Happy Few..

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