High On Life
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Pervasive strong profanity and crude humor throughout, in the vein of adult animated comedy.
First-person shooting and melee against alien enemies and bosses, with colorful blood spray and comedic on-screen gore during fights.
The central plot involves a cartel converting humans into drugs, with recurring drug references and drug-themed effects experienced in-game.
Story elements include a planet's genocide, humans being farmed as narcotics, and a companion who massacres his own species.
Comedic gore including sliced and dismembered alien enemies from the sentient knife's attacks.
Frequent crude sexual jokes, innuendo, and raunchy dialogue from the talking guns and NPCs, though no depicted sexual acts.
The player works as a licensed bounty hunter tracking a drug cartel; drug smuggling and a criminal underworld are depicted.
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What it is
High On Life is a comedic first-person shooter in which the player is a rookie bounty hunter fighting an alien cartel that wants to turn humans into drugs. Combat uses a set of foul-mouthed, sentient talking guns and a knife against cartoonish alien enemies, with colorful blood and some sliced-up gore played for laughs. The humor is adult and improv-heavy: constant strong profanity, crude and gross-out jokes, and sexual innuendo fill the dialogue. Drug references run through the whole premise, and the story touches on dark material such as trafficking, a planet's destruction, and a companion slaughtering his own kind. It is a single-player game with no online interaction.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and dark subject matter through absurdist, satirical comedy rather than realism, with the player positioned as a licensed bounty hunter opposing a villainous drug cartel; the raunchy talking weapons treat the mayhem as an ongoing joke rather than something dramatized or moralized.
Details
- Developer
- Squanch Games
- Publisher
- Squanch Games
- Released
- 2022-12-13
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