The Happyhills Homicide wants you to give in to your killer side, but it doesn’t intend to make it easy. You need to figure out how to sneakily do your sinister deeds.
You’re a murderous killer, but you have standards, dang it. That means you can’t just waltz up to people and stab them. That would be embarrassing. Plus, there’s all of the yelling and the running that comes with it. Lord knows your cardio isn’t what it used to be. Since you’re not interested in moving any faster than a brisk walk, you need to take your time with each of your victims. You have to learn the layouts of their homes, or the locales you’re finding them in. You have to find some tools on-site, too (who wants to lug a machete all over town). Then, if you can sneak up on your victim, you’ll deliver the deadly blow.
Each person requires a different form of execution, so you’ll be spending some time looking around for suitable tools. You need to do this without getting caught, so you’ll need to stay out of sight or moving when lightning strikes so people can’t hear the sounds of your footsteps. Your natural killer’s instinct will guide you to the tools you need (you get a prompt when you come upon something you can use). Your path typically becomes clear quite quickly, but you still need to be very patient with many of these puzzling layouts. The game autosaves frequently so you don’t have to go back too far if you get caught, but it’s still in your best interest to play slowly and carefully.
The Happyhills Homicide turns my typical experience in horror games on its head in interesting ways, having me work on killing folks instead of avoiding being killed. Still turns out that it helps to be sneaky whether you’re the killer or the victim, funny enough.
The Happyhills Homicide is available now on GameJolt.
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