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Happy Bones

‘Happy Bones’ Seeks Missing Folks in a Sickening Place

Posted on May 19, 2021May 14, 2021 by Joel Couture

Your dad’s been missing for a few years in Happy Bones, but he just sent you a message! Hopefully he isn’t stuck anywhere weird…

Well, it seems like it is somewhere weird. A cult compound. That’s just your luck, I guess. Well, you’re still going to try to bring him home, even if the place has seen better days. Although I may be downplaying that a bit, since sometimes the floor is made of intestines. Sometimes a box tries to bite you. Sometimes internal organs run through machinery. Maybe a nun starts throwing crosses at you. The place is a little bit dangerous and gross, is what I’m saying.

All of these stomach-churning troubles stand in your way, but none of them are immune to a good old beat down, turn-based style. Not that every issue can be solved with your fists, as this place has many puzzling mechanisms that will slow you down and keep you from your dad as well. Also, there’s some things that just might be a bit too big and powerful for you to be fighting, so you may need to just keep a move on when you’re facing an unsettling creature whose head is bigger than your whole body. This place IS pretty strange, after all.

Happy Bones is an awfully cheery name for a game where you’ll often die to disturbing beings, but when they’re presented in a cute art style like this, I sort of get it. I won’t live for long and likely leave a messy corpse, but I get it.

Happy Bones

Happy Bones is available now on Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.

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