10 Under-The-Radar Video Games You'll Want To Buy In 2018
2. We Happy Few
We live in a world of weird. We also live in a world where people, by and large, are harder to scare. In that vein, We Happy Few promises to tick all boxes as a survival-based psyche quest that’s sure to hit the freak factor.
The release trailer that dropped in summer 2017 depicted what Compulsion Games describe as a “drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England” (so essentially ‘1960s England’).
As one of the three playable characters, your aim is to avoid the gaze of the chemically adjusted general population, who look like they’re there to kill you and are rather happy about the whole thing.
Even the city in which We Happy Few is based, Wellington Wells, appears to be a nod to A Clockwork Orange, though we’d be far from the first to compare the 2018 release with Anthony Burgess’ 1962 weirdfest.
Gearbox are also at the head of publishing for this one, boasting previous success with ports for Half-Life, Battleborn and Borderlands, a similarly open-world hit with which we’re hoping this bears some resemblance.
If you can’t wait to play the full version later this year, We Happy Few is already available on Steam Early Access and Xbox One’s Game Preview Program.