We Happy Few is an upcoming indie survival horror video game developed and published by Compulsion Games.
The game revolves around a person in a dystopian retrofuturistic-fashioned world where everyone is controlled by a personality-altering pill called 'Joy". The protagonist, Arthur Hastings, works as a 'redactor', a government censor similar to the Ministry of Truth, erasing unhappy stories from newspapers and records. During his work one day, he finds an article about his brother, Percy and has a sudden flashback. Feeling somewhat traumatised by this, he decides not to take his Joy. By doing so, he soon finds the real world much different from the reality he believed himself to inhabit.
If you die in “We Happy Few”, that’s it – there is no reloading your save. It’s designed to be replayed. Each time you die, you’ll restart in a brand new city, thanks to our procedural generation tech. You’ll be able to customize the world to your liking, and play through using multiple characters and playstyles. Each time, you’ll learn a little more about how to survive in Wellington Wells.
hylian_elf wrote:How do I get Xbox Preview?
mistercrayon wrote:I'm not sure how early access fits with a narrative game? Is it just a different word for episodic?! Otherwise a glitchy version of the whole story?
Will be more interested when the whole thing is full.
FranticPea wrote:Been bugging me what it reminded me of, why didn't I realise it was Clockwork Orange? Kicking myself now. Also giving me a Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch vibe with the drug giving everyone a shared alternate reality.
Webbins wrote:I'd much prefer this to be not Early Access and they just release when ready, it doesn't strike me as benefitting from it. Games like 7 Days to Die sound like they would however, as I gather the PC version was Early Access but the console version wasn't.
Diluted Dante wrote:I still don't understand the early access stuff for this.
Billy wrote:That's a shame, when i first saw that E3 pinata footage i hoped it would be a straight up linear narrative story. I don't need to play essentially the same story in lots of different towns, just 1 really good one.
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