"A Few Good Hours of Jokes, Meta Silliness, and Gore" – High on Life: High on Knife DLC Review

High on Life made a big splash last year, turning a colorful singleplayer comedy FPS packed with irreverent scatological sketches into an XBOX Game Pass hit download. Players traversed an open world, tangled with goopy aliens, and plundered self-referential gaming tropes in Squanch Games’ largest project to date, which still left ample space for a follow-up. High on Knife is now High on Life’s first paid DLC, offering up a new planet to explore, a few additional talking weapons and, frankly, more of the same hit-or-miss gags. While it hardly reinvents the original and can be completed in less than afternoon, its reduced scope helps the narrative and atmosphere cohere a little better, and the humor’s more hit than miss on this outing.