Recent reviews by Viking

This is one i would wait on for a few updates or balancing. The game feels just like TTT but without any of the fun of TTT, and playing with a random group feels like playing with randoms on amongus except now the children can sprint to a pistol and kill you. Most of the games seemed to end with the employees doing the job of the dissidents and as such playing with randoms is not reccomended. This game would be sooooo much fun with a group of friends who can be held to account and will play as intended but as it is its just a lot of children who run in, melee/shoot everyone else to death regardless of their role and then the match ends. 5/10 its amazing with a group of like 5-7 friends, but garbage in random lobbies.

Update, got a refund for it and ill probably re-buy it if it has any kind of staying power in the friend group, but as of now, the 10$ was better spent on groceries.

good game, loops.

I would fully reccomend this game to anyone who loves platformers. The controls are tight, the environments and soundtrack are beautiful, the bosses are creative and fun.

Having played a few hours I decided to write my very first review on this game.
With a few caveats I shall mention at the end I would indeed reccomend it.

Set in a dystopian alternate reality past England, We Happy Few has a very nice style, reminiscent of Dishonored and Bioshock. The game allows you to "play your own style" as it were, however it still forces you to do some things, such as take the Joy pill. I have yet to be able to play drug free yet, as at some point the game ends up forcing you to need to take it, unless you dont want to stealth through drug free, as some machines have the trap boxes on the wrong side.

"Conforming" consists of either drugging up with pills, or constantly hitting "E" on every single person you pass. AI bugs seem to appear where instead of this Joy-filled city, residents take to screaming downer at each other quite often in the streets and mob killings become rampant. Also I feel like you should not be caught out at the shopkeep when not on joy, as townsfolk will accuse you of being a downer in shops and attack while selling goods.

Quests can be buggy, where some AI have attacked me for standing near to the Quest giver, and attempting to either talk to or give him/her what they need. Some have been completely unfinishable requiring restarts, as once I had the item, I could not then turn it in.

Combat is pretty fun, and I enjoy the fact that I can knock people unconcious rather than kill them, as that sort of breaks immersion for me when I am stealthing.

Story as of now is nonexistent outside of prologue stuff and some quests seem standard.

Crafting is pretty good, with items in your stash counting as usable materials, and oftentimes recipes being unlocked fairly frequently, granted some have been bugged for me occasionally.

All in all I would reccomend this game if you are willing to help find bugs and mechanical issues. Otherwise I would wait until further patches or a sale.

Pros:
Combat is quick and often exciting
Stealth has its moments
The crafting system is handy in that items in stash count for crafting in field.
The bit of story we get is interesting and I cant wait to see more of it
That house of curiosities is very... curious

Cons:
Occasional bugged quests
Bugged AI
Joy pills don't last very long (lore wise should last all day, whereas the smaller dmt pills could last a short while}
Unfinished story
No options to play a less "survival" type game (no food/sleep/drink requirements)
Some weapons seem to break way too fast