Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse isn’t going to blow you away. It’s certainly not going to have you reaching for the medicine cabinet, though. I suppose much of what you get out of CH: F will depend on your ability to take a joke. The gameplay won’t be what keeps you coming back, but Coop’s story has much left to be told, and I’ll be there for the sequel. The rub is that if Explosm doesn’t bring their A-game for episode two, I’ll probably take a swing at Coop, myself.

It's competent, but not spectacular, yet it does justice to its source material, despite ending before this chapter's title is really justified. [Issue #52 – May/June 2021, p. 20]

Thankfully, as an old fan of the series I actually did get quite a kick out of Cyanide and Happiness: Freakpocalypse. Its short length is disappointing, but the fact that I found myself wanting more from the game is probably a good sign of things to come.

An adventure full of the humor of the epic cartoons that is overshadowed by an adaptation that can be improved on Nintendo Switch, a plot divided into stories and small issues. However, the amount of interactions and lines of dialogue are overwhelming and fans will enjoy them a lot.

Ultimately Freakpocalypse won’t disappoint fans of the comic strip – who likely backed the game when it was funded via Kickstarter – but it won’t blow them away either. It’ll likely leave everyone else a bit cold.

Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse is a perfectly serviceable point-and-click adventure that offers a lot of opportunities for laughter. However, unless you’re a longtime fan of their comics, the jokes can regularly fall flat as they’re pumped out in every sentence of dialogue. Between holding to basic mechanics and failing to impress past what is expected, Freakpocalypse forces you to focus on the negatives, even if there aren’t that many.