Bigben Interactive S.A. announced the much-anticipated relaunch of Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory, a video game adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game created in 1984 by Dan Gelber, Greg Costikyan, and Eric Goldberg.  Paranoia was inspired by the works of Kafka, Orwell, and Huxley, and addresses the issues created by a population controlled by Friend Computer, a paranoid and irrational artificial intelligence, a subject which is central to current day society. The game will be available on PC platforms for PC gamers worldwide on December 21, 2023. Paranoia: Happiness Is Mandatory places players into an oppressive universe where the Friend Computer, an artificial intelligence, controls and watches over Alpha Complex, a human city where an inhabitant?s social standing is determined by colour-coded security clearances.

In this mad universe, the player will learn through off-the-wall dialogues that happiness is mandatory, that anyone can turn out to be a traitor, and asking too many questions is treason against Friend Computer. Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory is a faithful and approved adaptation of its pen and paper progenitor. The player, leading a squad of four Troubleshooters, is tasked with tracking down traitors.

Serving the Friend Computer can be very risky, but it lets the most tenacious Troubleshooters rise quickly through the hierarchy. And since death is waiting for the player just around each corner, they have access to five clones which allows them to develop their character in order to accomplish their goals and unmask their enemies.