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We Happy Few: How Much Happiness Can a Person Take? – March 27, 2015

Okay, so here we have We Happy Few from developer Compulsion Games, the studio behind Contrast. The lid has been blown off the game’s Kickstarter campaign, and the first Stretch Goal (Drug Paradise) is in the bag as well. Next up are Sandbox Mode, additional Uncle Jack Shows and more.

According to Compulsion Games: “We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of slightly terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful delusion. Set in a drug-fuelled, retro-futuristic city in an alternative history 1964 England, you’ll have to blend in with its other citizens, who don’t take kindly to people who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.”

The rules include ingesting a drug called Joy and behaving in expected ways. If other inhabitants suspect you’re not taking the drug, they will happily come after you with such weapons as lead pipes, rolling pins and heavy skillets.

Compulsion has also released a few We Happy Few videos. First up is a bedtime story from the seemingly ubiquitous Uncle Jack, presented in two parts:   

Here we have 15+ minutes of pre-alpha gameplay:

A release date for We Happy Few is TBD.  And remember: there’s still time to back the game on Kickstarter!