Today during the Microsoft press conference, a new game called We Happy Few was shown off. The game was announced previously, and is being developed by Compulsion games, who previously worked on Contrast.
The game will be part of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Preview program, which is just their fancy way of saying early access. Going by the preview we got to see, We Happy Few looks artistically a lot like the same style used for Bioshock Infinite.
You take on the role of Arthur Hastings, who apparently works in the printing press for newspapers putting papers in pneumatic tubes. When something comes across your desk that instantly makes him start to question everything, including a drug that everyone seemingly is ordered to take called “joy.” After he is interrupted, he starts walking down the hall where everything is not like it seems as offices are ransacked and we see someone injecting someone else with… something.
Arthur starts asking himself dangerous questions such as if the canister wonders what life is like outside of the tubes. We then get to see a number of people beating a pinata that is sitting on the table. Arthur finally takes part and that is when it is revealed to be a rat or something.
It is then that they realize he is off his drugs and start calling him a “downer” and call for the guards. Arthur is then chased by the guards and the trailer ends with him being assuredly knocked out.
We Happy Few is releasing on Xbox Game Previews on July 26. You can check out the trailer above for a closer look.
Source: Microsoft E3 Press Conference