Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory Previews

Back during this year’s E3, we got a chance to check out a gameplay demo for Bigben Interactive’s tabletop-inspired humorous RPG Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory. And now, we can learn a bit more about this game, thanks to a couple of fairly positive early previews. You can find them below:

RPG Site:

I wasn’t really expecting to be super enthused by my time with Happiness is Mandatory — I don’t have any history with Paranoia and wasn’t sure I was interested in the game’s general premise. However, I ended up walking away a little bit more impressed just due to some of the different features at play such as the idea of clones, security clearance, backstabbing party members, and the like. In a packed year for RPGs later in 2019, Paranoia might not easily stand out, but maybe it’s worth keeping an eye on if 80s-esqe sci-fi dark humor sounds like your sort of thing.

TechRaptor:

Paranoia‘s combat seems to play as pretty standard CRPG fare, with the developers stating they have put a little more emphasis on things like consumables they expect players to use a lot. There will be abilities, items to craft, and different guns to mess around with as well. And of course plenty of loot to go through once you’ve downed your enemies.

Paranoia has some great dark humor and personality to it in an interesting dystopian world. The setting and writing are all there to make for some great fun, and if you’re a fan of things like Baldur’s Gate or Divinity: Original Sin, this may be worth checking out.