Happy Game
Developer/publisher Amanita Design
Format PC, Switch (both tested)
Release Out now
As the opening content disclaimer puts it, is not a happy game. Talk about understatement: not since the provincial bleakness of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley has the titular adjective been used so ironically. Jaromir Plachy’s gleefully malevolent adventure first took root as a way for him to let off creative steam during ’s long development – and this, which has itself taken seven years to reach fruition, often feels like that game reflected in the very darkest of mirrors. Taking place within the imagination of a frightened boy, it is’s protagonists rip their daughter’s beloved toy elephant limb from limb should probably give it a swerve.
