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We Happy Few

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3.2/5

( 42 Reviews )

3.2

42 Reviews

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We Happy Few
Description
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 ta...
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3.2/5

( 42 Reviews )

3.2

42 Reviews

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Product details
2018, Compulsion Games, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
64 bit, Windows 7 and above, Triple-core Intel or AMD, 2.0 GHz or faster, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 4...
DLCs
Roger & James in They Came From Below, We Happy Few - Lightbearer, We Happy Few - We All Fall Down
Time to beat
20.5 hMain
40.5 h Main + Sides
65 h Completionist
35.5 h All Styles
Description
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 to be happy in Wellington Wells, including the roads, the people, and its omnipresent television personality, Uncle Jack! However, it’s a big, idyllic world on the brink of collapse. You will discover the history of this world, and how it came to be just 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.

Procedurally Generated World

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.

Customizable Gameplay

Aside from a procedurally generated world, there are many ways to customize your We Happy Few experience:
  • Choose from a range of difficulties for new and experienced players alike,
  • Play through the story, or customize the sandbox world to your liking,
  • Try permadeath, if you want to satisfy all your masochistic needs,
  • 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 your bare hands or the crazy weapons you create.

Legal line: © 2018 Compulsion Games Inc. We Happy Few and Compulsion Games are trademarks of Compulsion Games Inc., used under licence. Published and distributed by Gearbox Publishing. Gearbox and the Gearbox Software logo are registered trademarks, and the Gearbox Publishing logo is a trademark, all used courtesy of Gearbox Software, LLC.

System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
20.5 hMain
40.5 h Main + Sides
65 h Completionist
35.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)
Release date:
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Size:
11.2 GB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol)

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Languages
English
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Deutsch
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español
audio
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français
audio
text
italiano
audio
text
Português do Brasil
audio
text
русский
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中文(简体)
audio
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日本語
audio
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Critics reviews
63
Top Critic Average
21 %
Critics Recommend
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Posted on: January 4, 2025

cgr37712

Verified owner

Games: 1274 Reviews: 46

boring

the game seemed to have a good story at the start but it got boring real fast, all the side quests are really boring too, this would have been a better game if it was just a walking simulator and not an RPG.


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Posted on: December 8, 2024

Jastor_Jester

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Games: 4 Reviews: 2

I kill british beople, I happy

I kill british beple, I happy


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Posted on: April 23, 2022

nik269

Games: 30 Reviews: 3

i regret spending like 25€ back then

this game is theft and insulting gamers


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Posted on: May 22, 2022

dozah

Games: 141 Reviews: 38

Your Daily Dose of Brainwashing.

Game tells a discombobulated, disjointed narrative as to effect the subconscious and trigger knee-jerk emotional reactions; 'gut responses'. Far more concern was given to the game's narrative than it's actual gameplay, the loop of which consists of running from geriatrics armed with umbrellas for dear life. WW2 itself was a stagecraft version of history, arranged and conducted by the secret society once they had conquered and subjugated the entire world's population to organized religion and levied taxes, for the purpose of creating the archetype heathen to use as a boogeyman to scare the minds of those populations they control. The game's engine, and graphics are okay, but the premise of this game is an absolute failure, and only exists to perpetuate a brainwashing version of human history and events.


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Posted on: March 10, 2021

NextTourist

Verified owner

Games: 92 Reviews: 15

Mutiplicitous Hypocrisy?

This game is fiendishly attractive and similarly addictive to play, a bit like a cross between Strife and World Of Warcraft it manages to be colorful and fun in an entertaining way. The literal blend of Brave New World and Yellow Submarine is hilarious at times if you can accumulate the references into the situation being as defined, and the Uncle Jack shows are brilliant. However I realize that this Bioshock style off-shoot is suffering from a similar politically conscious problem. In some ways it can be described as 'anti multicultural' leading to this review's definition. I found We Happy few on sale for £7 when I moved to GOG from Steam because I wanted to play Close To The Sun on Windows 8.1. I purchased it in deciding to see what else fitted within that title's idiom as of what I should buy here. I would not pay £45 for this on either this site or Steam and was waiting for it to be more in the region of £15-20, this mainly because of the suspect politics. I wonder that where Bioshock lead to Wolfenstein: The Alternate Future franchise, this game will lead to a similar politically suspicious or altruistic creation which is overpriced?


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