August 10, 2018
We Happy Few
Release date
August 10, 2018
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Summary
We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial. Set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England, you’ll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who have their own set of not-so-normal rules.
We Happy Few System Requirements
🤏 Minimum Requirements
OS:
64 bit, Windows 7 and above
CPU:
Triple-core Intel or AMD, 2.0 GHz or faster
RAM:
8 GB RAM
GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX or AMD Radeon 5870 HD series or higher Mobile
HDD:
6 GB available space
👍 Recommended Specs
OS:
64 bit, Windows 7 and above
CPU:
Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
RAM:
8 GB RAM
GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce 660 GTX or AMD Radeon 7870 HD series or higher
HDD:
6 GB available space
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Critic Reviews66
The beautifully presented dystopian society has a huge hidden story potential, which is mostly handed down to the players. Playable passages will get boring after a while, but if you like a good alternative history, you won’t mind the average gameplay.
December 31, 2018
Retrofuturistic, totalitarian world created by Compulsion Games is fascinating, as we see bits and pieces of Kafka (a clerk rebelling against the system), Clockwork Orange (extreme violence), Douglas Adams (humor) or Half-Life (architecture) floating around. What failed is the execution, which turned We Happy Few into an unintentional parody of stealth games. The enemy AI is so lame that I repeatedly had an impression of starring in a lost episode of The Benny Hill Show, especially since the combat system is crude and production values leave a lot to be desired.
December 4, 2018
The concept of We Happy Few has so much potential, but it feels like there were two teams with different level of talent working on this project. One team used this elaborate alternative world, stark visual style and and intriguing story, tried to lift it up. The other team was responsible for imbalanced, clumsy gameplay, pulled the game down. The result is 30 hours of very mixed feelings.
November 5, 2018