You Have A Drunk Friend is a physics-based title in where your mate who really cannot handle his alcohol becomes a danger to himself. Your job as his best friendo is to keep him from killing himself as he or she bashes into furniture and other objects you’d preferably not be inclined to face plant into. Unluckily for them, we are also drunk and controlling our character can be quite tricky, much less helping them. You are just as likely to power-bomb them into a nearby wall as you are to gently put them to rest on a couch.
We move with the ‘wasd’ keys and can control both of his arms by dragging them around one at a time via the mouse. To grab and let go we use the spacebar. It’s a simple control scheme made difficult by our state of inebriation that makes just walking around something without smashing face first into it worthy of applause. All the while your friend just ran into and destroyed his TV set.
You are tasked with four things. First is to keep them from hurting themselves for a short while. You then need to get a bottle or something with fluid to drench them with as to sober them up somewhat. Next step is to dry them up. Finally, you simply put them in a bed or couch. After completing all these things, you have completed the level and are rewarded with some currency. With that currency, you can purchase new characters and a new environment for future playthroughs.
Using new characters is not just a visual change. Their weight is significant to how the game plays as it is naturally far more challenging to lift someone twice your size. You will always be given the same four objectives though, making it get boring really quickly. There are other ways to complete them such as wetting someone with a tea kettle instead of a wine bottle, yet it isn’t all that different. Which brings me to the second and only other environment, the bathroom.
It plays out in exactly the same way as the first area but contains quite the nasty surprise for us. Once you get to the last step, which is resting them on a bed or sofa, it doesn’t register that action so the level will be never-ending. Not only that but even when switching to another environment or restarting the entire game, you will be unable to complete that last step ever again. That means you can no longer complete the level and gain currency to play as other characters. After being unable to fix it, I replayed the entire thing again on another PC only for it to happen again.
The last update was in January, and playing this in late April with the characters still having Santa hats on, you’d forgive me for being skeptical of it being fixed or adding more environments as stated in the level select screen. There was decent enjoyment to be had with trying to fight against the physics and keep your friend from seriously hurting themselves, however brief it lasted. It was interesting that they added a separate meter aside from pure physical damage that will get them mad at you for feeling them up or grabbing him/her by the groin and causing you to fail if it fills completely. Sadly, due to the serious technical issues, I can not recommend it to anybody despite its low price.
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