A Happy Place

I love this game so so very much. Is it a little rough around the edges sometimes? Yes. But it's so obvious this game is a labor of love. It's a blast to play, the music is fabulous, the antagonist is the coolest antagonist literally ever and it's just all around a project that's really captured my imagination. I would highly recommend you play this game! You might have to consult the community forms to get some bug fix info, but the community is super loving and the creator does a great job touching things up and maintaining the game too! The area that was most bugged for me was Fever Freeway, which (SPOILERS) has a cool 'double layered map' situation going on where you fall from the top layer map to the bottom-- and the monster down below gets more aggressive with different stages for each gear box collectible you pick up throughout the level. This is an awesome idea! Mine ended up being a little buggy though, where my underground monster would or would not progress sometimes (he got stuck at stage 1 for awhile, and randomly jumped to stage 4). In general I have very poor navigation skills and ended up stuck in the maze until I think the game pitied me enough to let me out, bec…

good game!

Writing my first ever review for Steam, and I think this game deserves that honor, given how obscure it is. [b]A Happy Place[/b] is a retro collectathon that tries it hardest to disguise itself as a completely normal game that isn't totally horror, but what set itself from the others, is how the horror parts presents itself, and the underlaying story. And also that it is a pretty solid game overall, don't forget that. Fair warning for anyone reading this, my review will contain SPOILERS, but they'll be marked. First, let my sing my praises about this game. Has bats and you can play as one, which automatically makes this 10/10 in my book, I am totally not biased in this, but for the sake of having a objective review that isn't influenced by personal preferences, I'll those leave out of my final rating. All levels as well their dark world sides are decently designed at minimum, none of them feels like a slog to play though, and the dark world sides feel different from each other and usually have a gimmick to keep themselves fresh. None of the monsters in the dark worlds are insta-killers (save for one), which is thankful for players who kinda suck at platforming, and if they "tech…

Fun platformer

I've played throught the game 3 times (once on my steam deck) I would recommend this game ESPECIALLY if you love 3D platformers. The environment feels exactly like an N64 game, its very faithful. The collecting is so much fun and the movement is perfect. The only problems I have with the game is the performance. (I think) because of the engine it's made in it wasnt really built to handle 3D games like this??? So some levels if you play it for too long the frames drop drastically (on my pc and steam deck, although steam deck it is a little bit worse). I gifted the game to a friend that loves SM64 and it skipped one of the first cutscenes which kinda tainted his experience (although thinking aboout it now he may have accidentally skipped it???). Loading times are quite long on steam deck and first time I played I thought it froze and closed the game so I also ended up skipping a cutscene. The performance dropping at times didnt stop me from playing the game though, like I said before the game is authentic to the N64 era and just really fun to play. TLDR: has performance issues at times but if you can ignore that and keep chugging along the game is incredibly fun and authentic to N…

its good, kinda jank, but GOOD!.