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We Happy Few

Set in a retrofuturistic version of 1960s England, We Happy Few follows three rebellious citizens in Wellington Wells, a society where people take the drug Joy and are expected to conform. Each character has an interwoven story and their own strengths and weaknesses. Explore the city and its surrounding districts, take on missions, and scavenge for supplies. To avoid hostility, you can blend in by following local rules, wear suitable clothes, or use stealth; you can also fight when encounters go wrong. Gather recipes and materials to craft weapons, tools, and devices, and manage survival needs as you progress. The world is procedurally generated, and the game offers adjustable difficulty, including a permadeath option.

In Joy-controlled Wellington Wells, play three rebels who scavenge, craft, and sneak or fight to uncover the city's past.

Released 10 Aug 2018

77%positive of
13k player reviews

$59.99

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From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.

Developed by Compulsion Games · Published by Gearbox Publishing, Xbox Game Studios

WE HAPPY FEW | Full Game Walkthrough | No Commentary

HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR JOY? | We Happy Few - Part 1

We Happy Few: The Story Explained

Players Praise Most

Story and Worldbuilding
Distinctive Atmosphere
Music and Voicework
Three Character Stories

Common Player Critiques

Tedious Travel and Quests
Weak Stealth and Combat
Bugs and NPC AI
Repetitive Survival Systems

77%

positive of 13k player reviews

62/100

Metacritic

From the Devs

We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial in the city of Wellington Wells. In this alternative 1960s England, conformity is key. You’ll have to fight or blend in with the drug-addled inhabitants, most of whom don’t take kindly to people who won’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.

Discover the retrofuturistic city’s dark history as you play through the intertwined narratives of three quietly rebellious citizens of Wellington Wells, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, as they face their pasts, prepare for the future, and engage in activities that aren’t exactly status quo in the artificially enthused society.

Retrofuturistic 1960s England
Set in retrofuturistic 1960s England, you will find a city ravaged by war and rebuilt by delusionally happy people. Everything appears joyful in Wellington Wells, including its roads, its people, and its omnipresent television personality: Uncle Jack! But, it’s actually a world on the brink of collapse. Come unveil its dark history, and discover how and why its residents came to be so beguilingly happy.

Three Interwoven Narratives
Play as three flawed characters who explore their own connections to the events surrounding the rebuilding of Wellington Wells. They each have a unique storyline in which they interpret and react to the events around them in different ways. As you hide, conform, or fight back as each of them, you will encounter dark humour, a spot of hope, and even some redemption along the way.

A Dystopia of Your Very Own
In We Happy Few, no two playthroughs are alike. While the citizens of Wellington Wells will always want to ensure that you’ve taken your Joy, the procedurally generated world will ensure that your experience with We Happy Few is different and unique. Wellington Wells is never quite like you remember it.

Take Your Joy…or Don’t. The Choice is Yours
Customize your We Happy Few experience:
• Choose from a range of difficulties for new and experienced players alike,
• Masochistic? Try permadeath!,
• Collect recipes, scavenge items, and craft dozens of weapons, tools, and devices,
• Creep, crush, or conform your way through puzzles and encounters, and
• Fight with the crazy weapons you can craft, or fight with your bare hands and don’t kill anyone!

Awards & Kudos

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows
Steam Deck	Verified
Achievements	70
Age ratings	ESRB M — Blood Strong Language Suggestive Themes Use of Drugs and Alcohol Violence PEGI 18 — Violence Bad Language USK 16 CERO Z ClassInd (Brazil) 18 — Violência Drogas Linguagem imprópria NZOFLC R13 — Violence Offensive Language Drug Use OFLC R18 — Fantasy violence and interactive drug use
Players	From 1 (maximum not specified)
Other modes	Single-player story campaign with three interwoven character narratives Procedurally generated world variations between playthroughs
Multiplayer	The provided information describes We Happy Few as a single-player game. It features three playable storylines and a procedurally generated world, but no multiplayer mode is described. A Steam tag lists Multiplayer, while the listed features only specify Single-player, so multiplayer support is unclear from the provided information.
Multiplayer & mods	Steam Workshop support is listed, but no information is provided about multiplayer-specific mods or whether mods affect multiplayer.
Controller support	Xbox
Controller required	No
DLC / extras	4 listed on Steam
DRM / EULA	Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA We Happy Few EULA
Content notices	Blood Strong Language Suggestive Themes Use of Drugs and Alcohol Violence Age rating for: ESRB
Metacritic	62/100 View on Metacritic
Website	Official website