This game has been released in early beta at best. A great premise ruined by boring, uninspired, generic baby-sit-the-protagonist survival game-play that's been done a thousand times before. It doesn't even do it well. This game was released with, and continues to be filled with, an immense amount of bugged quests and hideous graphical glitches.

The gall of charging £45 for it in this state and then to release a SEASON PASS!? The thin veneer of polish they did have before release was as lazy as it gets, an irritating crafting/inventory system slapped onto the game with the sole intention of slowing down any meaningful progress and *they hoped* stopping the player from notice what a ♥♥♥♥ show it was.

The lack of significant content is staggering, the fact that you see the same 5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ people over and over and over again, hear the same 2 voices over and over (often different voices come out of the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ person); the fact that there are STILL community forums actively finding workarounds to game breaking bugs!

The early backers have long cut their losses and run but I am still just bowled over that they had the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheek on them to call this a job well done, a job well done for a 45 quid price tag and a season pass!

Finally, by all means use the authoritarian imagery of post WWII Britain, by all means use Britain's deeply rooted state surveillance and propagandist history as a setting for a dystopian nightmare. Why wouldn't you? George Orwell did it for a reason. I mean lets be clear, this game is basically 1984, I have no issue with that at all in fact it was a big point in the games favour. But its Orwell done badly.

Unless 1984 was just 328 pages of featureless mannequins with flat caps on running around wildly stabbing each other with pool cues going "BLOODY BLOODY HELL BLOOMING BLOODY WEATHER BOBSYOURUNCLEWOTGUVNA IM THIRSTY REFILL THE CANTEEN BLOOMIN HECK". Then I would say it was an Orwellian nightmare done right. But it isn't, We Happy Few is an insult to George Orwell and 1984, it's an insult to videogames as a medium of political story-telling, its an insult to cockney accents and flatcaps and little pills that make you feel good.

It's just total ♥♥♥♥♥.

Contrast was a brilliant game but this is an unbelievable dog-turd, Compulsion games should be ashamed. I know gearbox had a hand in this as well but I can hardly muster the energy to be angry at them anymore, whats the point? This is what gearbox do, they find a nice juicy ripe franchise in the making, polish it up all nice-like, then Randy Pitchford cuts a hole in it and ♥♥♥♥♥ it senseless so nobody else can enjoy it.

But Compulsion Games gave him the knife, they took backers money, they half-made the game, then they took Gearboxes money and then made us all watch while Randy Pitchford ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it senseless.

About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Carrion was an amorphous creature of unknown origin.

Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my biomass.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Carrion is a love story with nightmarish tentacles that will tickle your pickle.