We Happy Few on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 13,224 reviews of which 10,141 were positive and 3,083 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.

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 Survival Horror Crafting 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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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.

Dec. 2024

I don't get the hate this game gets. I had a very good time playing it. The story, the characters, the atmosphere is really good. There is lots of walking yes and some parts are way difficult. It is kinda like Bioshock, especially like Infinite. DLCs are amazing, maybe even better than the game. If you are into dystopian games, definitely give this a chance.

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 wouldn’t like it

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.

April 2024

I have played through this game 5 separate times, all the way through. Even touching night watch and survival mode. I have played through so many times on two platforms and it's to the point where I'm fairly certain that I don't even care how buggy this game is, it's a mess, there's no way around it. This game is not finished. And yet, it's so charming that I keep coming back to play it over again. Would I recommend this game to you? Probably not, the story? Amazing. The gameplay? Well, if you like a walking simulator that has you watching your typical survival game cores like hunger and thirst, then you'd probably like this game. If you can stand the hilarious bugs and sometimes even gamebreaking ones, you have a game here that is just ok, with amazing story. I'm gonna play it again, it's just what I do now. This game is my guilty pleasure, and I don't care anymore that it's kinda terrible.

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59.99€

7.5

10,141

3,083

Online players

Developer

Compulsion Games

Publisher

Gearbox Publishing

Release 10 Aug 2018

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