They manned anti-aircraft batteries and coastal defense guns.
They patrolled the streets during air raids, shooing citizens into shelters and preventing looting.
Historically, the Home Guard was organized from volunteers who had otherwise been found unfit for military service. Hitler’s Operation Sea Lion was a success.īut there was one last line of defense for the mainland, England’s Home Guard. With no relief coming from the United States, food remained scarce in for years.Įventually, Germany invaded England by sea with thousands of small boats hitting the coastline all at once. Scattered throughout the game’s broken landscape are unexploded V-1 rockets, chalked-on anti-British slogans still visible along their flanks. The German war machine, including its mighty battleship Bismarck, pounded the island nation from the air and also from the sea.Įngland lost the Battle of Britain, and afterwards the population was tormented by a fearsome and sustained German bombardment. But, without the Arsenal of Democracy at its side, Great Britain stood alone. I’m still searching for the nature its treachery in-game. Perhaps it sought a separate peace with Hitler, or merely turned away from Europe to become more insular and nationalistic.
The United States, as it turns out, never joined the war. Once off his mind-control medication, Arthur begins to remember not only his own personal past, but also an alternate history of World War II.Īs these memories accumulate, as the game’s storyline itself begins to unfold, several key details emerge about Arthur’s version of WWII. In We Happy Few, players can take on the role of Arthur Hastings, an office drone in 1960s England. Warning: What follows contains spoilers for We Happy Few. Especially in its first act, We Happy Few envisions the world after “the greatest generation” refused to do their duty. But, while Infinite presents an almost magical fantasy world filled with floating islands and superpowers, We Happy Few is much more grounded in reality.Īt its core, the game is about what would happen in the 1960s if European democracy had fallen to fascism. Both do an exceptional job of storytelling, using environmental details, excellent voiceover and in-engine cutscenes to slowly fill in the game’s backstory. After playing through most of the final game ( We Happy Few has been available in Early Access since 2016) it’s clear that comparison is an apt one. Throughout its long development journey, We Happy Few has been favorably compared to BioShock Infinite.
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