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A Happy New Year

A Happy New Year is a short text-based game where you spend New Year's Eve alone by the river. It's about getting messages from drunk people, about the need to justify what you're doing and maybe just about…

1 January 2019

A Happy New Year is an indie developed by Beiwerk, released 1 January 2019 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What A Happy New Year is

A Happy New Year is an indie game developed by Beiwerk and released in 2019. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Happy New Year is a short text-based game where you spend New Year's Eve alone by the river. It's about getting messages from drunk people, about the need to justify what you're doing and maybe just about ordinary teenage-kitsch, too. The game mixes personal experiences with fiction and would best be described as a mood-game. It's not necessarily about the story itself, but about a specific feeling at a specific time. It takes about 10 - 15 minutes to complete.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

A Happy New Year launched on 1 January 2019, within three weeks of Gris, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Judgment and DayZ.

Released around the same time: Gris, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Judgment, DayZ.

Official trailer

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When did A Happy New Year come out?
A Happy New Year was released on 1 January 2019 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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