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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.

We Happy Few is a adventure, open world and action game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
Released on August 10th 2018 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 13,327 reviews of which 10,225 were positive and 3,102 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. ๐Ÿ˜Š

The game is currently priced at 59.99โ‚ฌ on Steam, but you can find it for 17.18โ‚ฌ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified We Happy Few into these genres:

Adventure Open World Action Survival Dystopian First-Person Indie Psychological Horror Horror Singleplayer Atmospheric Stealth Exploration Dark Crafting Survival Horror Procedural Generation Story Rich Early Access

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64 bit, Windows 7 and above
  • Processor: Triple-core Intel or AMD, 2.0 GHz or faster
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX or AMD Radeon 5870 HD series or higher Mobile: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M or higher.
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 6 GB available space

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April 2025
---{ Graphics }--- โ˜ You forget what reality is โ˜ Beautiful โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Decent โ˜ Bad โ˜ Donโ€˜t look too long at it โ˜ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- โ˜ Very good โ˜ Good โ˜‘ It's just gameplay โ˜ Mehh โ˜ Watch paint dry instead โ˜ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- โ˜ Eargasm โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Not too bad โ˜ Bad โ˜ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- โ˜ Kids โ˜‘ Teens โ˜‘ Adults โ˜ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- โ˜ Check if you can run paint โ˜ Potato โ˜‘ Decent โ˜ Fast โ˜ Rich boi โ˜ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- โ˜ Floppy Disk โ˜ Old Fashioned โ˜‘ Workable โ˜ Big โ˜ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive โ˜ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it โ˜ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- โ˜ Just press 'W' โ˜ Easy โ˜‘ Easy to learn / Hard to master โ˜ Significant brain usage โ˜ Difficult โ˜ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- โ˜‘ Nothing to grind โ˜ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks โ˜ Isn't necessary to progress โ˜ Average grind level โ˜ Too much grind โ˜ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- โ˜ No Story โ˜ Some lore โ˜ Average โ˜ Good โ˜‘ Lovely โ˜ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- โ˜ Long enough for a cup of coffee โ˜ Short โ˜ Average โ˜‘ Long โ˜ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- โ˜ It's free! โ˜ Worth the price โ˜‘ If it's on sale โ˜ If u have some spare money left โ˜ Not recommended โ˜ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- โ˜ Never heard of โ˜ Minor bugs โ˜‘ Can get annoying โ˜ ARK: Survival Evolved โ˜ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- โ˜ 1 โ˜ 2 โ˜ 3 โ˜ 4 โ˜ 5 โ˜ 6 โ˜‘ 7 โ˜ 8 โ˜ 9 โ˜ 10 Conclusion: We Happy Few has a good story. But the gameplay and some fo the bugs are what's pulling it down. If it were to get an update/remake/remaster that fixes these, the game would be a 9.5/10
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March 2025
One of my most favorite gaming experiences if only this game wasn't as buggy as it is now and had more love put into it this game would have been more popular and maybe could have won a game of the year award for its PHENOMENAL story i highly recommend if you can look past the bug and lackluster combat
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Jan. 2025
This has been on my list to play for years. Was heavily recommended by a friend. Started playing it a few months ago. Had a couple good sessions, story setup seemed nice even if a little slow intially. But I wasnt really getting into it. Had picked normal difficulty and I just had trouble with a lot of the game mechanics to the point it just generally wasn't fun. I'm very grateful friend checked in again to see if I was playing or had finished it recently. I gave it another shot. Restarted because it had been a few months. Picked easy difficulty this time. And omg it was like a night and day experience. I'm not sure if it was just because the second time experience the starting missions again or that I'm not drinking as heavily now but all of the game mechs started to click. I could actually play the game and had a lot of fun with it. Got incredibly into the story and itching to know any new details that would come up while questing and exploring the world. Pretty unique game. Fantastic story telling, especially when you get into chapter 2 and chapter 3. Great sound track. Great voice acting. Very nice immersion overall.
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Nov. 2024
A beautiful, tedious mess of a game. Honestly great and clever story but tedious open world that is fun to my sensibilities of stupid games but I can see how most people wouldnโ€™t like it
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July 2024
We Happy Few in 2024 is an interesting experience. I first played Arthur's story back in 2018, and the whole thing was a complete mess. It wasn't a question of how the game would break, but when. I slogged my way through to the end of his chapter, and never even started Sally or Ollie's. Looking at the trophy counts on Steam, it seems like most players did the same thing. Revisiting this in 2024 has left me feeling two things: A) the (mostly) fixed game was a blast, and B) most players have never seen some of its best content. To be clear, this game's biggest issue remains its evolution from a procedurally generated survival open-world experience into a narrative driven adventure game. This awkward marriage of two very different visions is in the marrow of We Happy Few, and short of rebuilding the entire game from scratch, there was no way these two visions were ever going to coalesce. The devs had one thing in mind, the players got excited about another - and thus the awkwardness was born. Compared to the broken mess of 2018, though, We Happy Few in 2024 plays remarkably well. Yes, there's still some jank - and the procedural generation of the worlds, although refined, only ever hinders the quality of the game. But - the quests are completable, the world looks gorgeous in 4K, and bugs are mostly aesthetic. The real sadness for me comes from the fact that Sally and Ollie's playthroughs are both brilliant. The latter of which was my favourite in the game. Sally's story was great, don't get me wrong - but Ollie's was just superb. It tied so much of the narrative together, and without spoiling anything, his final few quests made me smile at how thoughtfully the devs had considered the world they'd created. But only 6% of players ever reached Ollie's ending. The vast majority chose my path in 2018 and never returned. I completely understand why, but it's also hard not to feel sad about this. There's an absolutely brilliant narrative in here, buried under so much 2018 jank. If you get the chance, I'd really encourage you to give this a 2024 spin. There's some truly brilliant storytelling here, and most of us missed it after the initial launch. The DLCs are arguably even more brilliant, but I'll leave those thoughts for another day.
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We Happy Few is currently priced at 59.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.

We Happy Few is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 59.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.

We Happy Few received 10,225 positive votes out of a total of 13,327 achieving a rating of 7.52.
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We Happy Few was developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.

We Happy Few is playable and fully supported on Windows.

We Happy Few is not playable on MacOS.

We Happy Few is not playable on Linux.

We Happy Few is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for We Happy Few. Explore additional content available for We Happy Few on Steam.

We Happy Few is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

We Happy Few supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

We Happy Few is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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We Happy Few PEGI 18
59.99โ‚ฌ -72% 59.99โ‚ฌ 17.18โ‚ฌ
7.5
10,225
3,102
Game modes
Features
Online players
47
Developer
Compulsion Games
Publisher
Gearbox Publishing
Release 10 Aug 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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