Royce Wilson from news.com.au has reviewed We Happy Few:

What would a psychadellic post-war Britain look like?

The worst crime you can commit in this trippy post-war dystopian game is to be labelled a ‘Downer’. So keep that happy mask on … or else.

HEN we imagine a world in which Britain lost World War II, we tend to think of something like The Man In The High Castle or SS-GB; a drab, fascist dystopia where everything is depressing and bleak.

But what if that world was actually a groovy, happy, trippy sort of place — where everyone had to be groovy, happy and trippy all the time … or else?

Welcome to the setting of We Happy Few, developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Best described as what you’d get if Douglas Adams and Sir Terry Pratchett created a cross between The Prisoner, Austin Powers, Fallout and 1984, We Happy Few is set in the fictional city of Wellington Wells in 1964 and casts you as three characters — Arthur Hastings, a censor at the Ministry of Archives looking for his missing brother; Sally Boyle, a chemist (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) with a secret of her own; and Ollie Starkey, a soldier who has had enough and wants to escape the city — and his past.

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