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We Happy Few

Compulsion Games · 2018-08-10

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ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 26, 2016 (Xbox One), Aug 10, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Jul 26, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2018 (Mac)

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 an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $59.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 13764 reviews).

39
playing now
77%
positive of 14k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (92 ratings)
7
Nexus mods (3.6k downloads)
3.94★
PlayStation Store rating (4,469 ratings)
42h
to beat · rushed 22h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)

39 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

We Happy Few is an action-adventure video game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. In 2016, an early access version was released for Windows, with the full game seeing wide release for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in August 2018.

Trailer

We Happy Few trailer thumbnail

We Happy Few – Announce Trailer | PS4

≈969,377 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 39 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 296 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~37/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 344k–827k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 13,778 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.43 at GameBillet (2023-01-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 14 of 34 observed days · $55.56 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
33933920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 262 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

104142026-09-15 12:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 48 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 25 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 52 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 63 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 39 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 29 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 43 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 32 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 35 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 47 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 50 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 17 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 59 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 72 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 42 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 67 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 73 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 34 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 68 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 94 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 40 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
8352Apr 2016Aug 2026Apr 2016 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2016 — avg 277 · peak 1,040Dec 2016 — avg 60 · peak 191Apr 2017 — avg 79 · peak 208Aug 2017 — avg 78 · peak 237Dec 2017 — avg 24 · peak 49Apr 2018 — avg 23 · peak 71Aug 2018 — avg 835 · peak 3,498Dec 2018 — avg 97 · peak 298Apr 2019 — avg 178 · peak 667Aug 2019 — avg 70 · peak 136Dec 2019 — avg 157 · peak 380Apr 2020 — avg 386 · peak 1,247Aug 2020 — avg 122 · peak 257Dec 2020 — avg 290 · peak 678Apr 2021 — avg 218 · peak 811Aug 2021 — avg 113 · peak 221Dec 2021 — avg 239 · peak 531Apr 2022 — avg 105 · peak 194Aug 2022 — avg 100 · peak 185Dec 2022 — avg 117 · peak 227Apr 2023 — avg 72 · peak 142Aug 2023 — avg 67 · peak 119Dec 2023 — avg 79 · peak 214Apr 2024 — avg 71 · peak 178Aug 2024 — avg 57 · peak 104Dec 2024 — avg 58 · peak 120Apr 2025 — avg 57 · peak 178Aug 2025 — avg 51 · peak 99Dec 2025 — avg 53 · peak 118Apr 2026 — avg 61 · peak 153Aug 2026 — avg 39 · peak 90
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$60.08$4.432016-07-262026-10-142016-07-26 — best price $29.992018-10-24 — best price $47.992019-01-24 — best price $59.992019-05-10 — best price $29.992019-08-13 — best price $59.992019-10-31 — best price $59.992020-01-02 — best price $59.992020-03-15 — best price $59.992020-06-15 — best price $59.992020-09-11 — best price $14.992020-12-11 — best price $11.492021-01-29 — best price $8.992021-03-05 — best price $50.702021-04-08 — best price $11.992021-05-05 — best price $59.992021-06-07 — best price $50.882021-07-25 — best price $7.562021-08-28 — best price $7.082021-10-29 — best price $8.992021-12-08 — best price $59.992022-01-23 — best price $59.992022-04-11 — best price $5.992022-06-06 — best price $59.992022-08-15 — best price $48.122022-11-02 — best price $59.992023-01-05 — best price $52.792023-04-01 — best price $59.992023-08-05 — best price $47.372024-06-21 — best price $39.992025-01-03 — best price $59.992025-11-21 — best price $14.992026-06-05 — best price $14.992026-10-14 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4.6k1742026-05-14 — 265 pageviews2026-05-18 — 333 pageviews2026-05-22 — 225 pageviews2026-05-26 — 249 pageviews2026-05-30 — 217 pageviews2026-06-03 — 209 pageviews2026-06-07 — 691 pageviews2026-06-11 — 336 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4,573 pageviews2026-06-19 — 462 pageviews2026-06-23 — 304 pageviews2026-06-27 — 285 pageviews2026-07-01 — 418 pageviews2026-07-05 — 390 pageviews2026-07-09 — 411 pageviews2026-07-13 — 295 pageviews2026-07-17 — 263 pageviews2026-07-21 — 218 pageviews2026-07-25 — 205 pageviews2026-07-29 — 213 pageviews2026-08-02 — 280 pageviews2026-08-06 — 246 pageviews2026-08-10 — 265 pageviews2026-08-14 — 302 pageviews2026-08-18 — 213 pageviews2026-08-22 — 377 pageviews2026-08-26 — 559 pageviews2026-08-30 — 311 pageviews2026-09-03 — 295 pageviews2026-09-07 — 286 pageviews2026-09-11 — 276 pageviews2026-09-15 — 226 pageviews2026-09-19 — 251 pageviews2026-09-23 — 280 pageviews2026-09-27 — 263 pageviews2026-10-01 — 174 pageviews2026-10-05 — 231 pageviews2026-10-09 — 183 pageviews2026-10-13 — 269 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "Downer"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing4 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2019-04-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)42,4180%70
Steam (Steam)14,0432%70
PS4 (PlayStation)10,4664%71

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DarkIndieActionHorrorStealthCraftingSurvivalAdventureDystopian Open World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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