Justin Roiland (Rick & Morty) and his developer Squanch Games have revealed a new comedy sci-fi shooter, High on Life. It will arrive on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC in October, and it looks wild.
Revealed during the Xbox-Bethesda Summer Showcase, High On Life is an FPS that sees you playing a human high schooler who’s quickly transformed into a galactic bounty hunter, using living guns to take down aliens – who have discovered that humans are the galaxy’s greatest drug. Decisions you make along the way will affect the outcome of the storyline, and you’ll have some handheld friends to help you make those choices, in the form of your weaponry.
Each gun you use will have its own personality, and offer its own take on events as you play – and you’ll be using them to kill off alien enemies and collect up grades as you visit multiple planets. Squanch promoses “a dense and dangerous jungle, a city built deep inside an asteroid, and a variety of other dynamic and changing worlds.” It kind of sounds like an M-rated Ratchet & Clank.
Squanch has previously released the likes of Trover Saves the Universe and Accounting, and while High on Life looks to take a similar comedic tone, it also looks like the most fully-fledged traditional game the studio has developed so far.
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