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We Happy Few

Compulsion Games · 2018-08-10

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ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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).

57
playing now
77%
positive of 14k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (92 ratings)
42h
to beat · rushed 22h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$59.99
steam price (US)

57 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 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.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 57 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 9% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 344k–826k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 13,764 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99-75%

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 16 of 30 observed days (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

60202026-08-06 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 20 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 41 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 47 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 26 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 39 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 45 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 32 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 42 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 44 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 31 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 33 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 31 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 38 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 42 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 34 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 47 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 60 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 32 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 43 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 33 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 40 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 45 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 44 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 27 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 42 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 57 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$60.08$4.432016-07-262026-08-262016-07-26 — best price $29.992018-08-30 — best price $59.992018-12-21 — best price $35.992019-03-02 — best price $53.992019-06-02 — best price $53.992019-08-13 — best price $59.992019-10-12 — best price $53.992019-12-07 — best price $59.992020-01-27 — best price $23.982020-04-03 — best price $20.992020-06-15 — best price $59.992020-08-28 — best price $14.992020-11-21 — best price $47.792020-12-30 — best price $59.992021-02-06 — best price $59.992021-03-05 — best price $50.702021-04-02 — best price $9.002021-04-24 — best price $47.792021-05-17 — best price $59.992021-06-18 — best price $6.992021-07-25 — best price $7.562021-08-20 — best price $7.192021-10-08 — best price $8.732021-11-12 — best price $5.992021-12-17 — best price $4.752022-01-23 — best price $59.992022-03-23 — best price $50.702022-05-20 — best price $59.992022-07-07 — best price $59.992022-08-24 — best price $5.992022-11-02 — best price $59.992022-12-21 — best price $4.902023-02-13 — best price $5.992023-04-30 — best price $59.992023-11-29 — best price $53.882024-06-21 — best price $39.992024-12-04 — best price $59.992025-07-10 — best price $59.992026-01-21 — best price $14.992026-08-26 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4.6k1882026-05-14 — 265 pageviews2026-05-17 — 489 pageviews2026-05-20 — 245 pageviews2026-05-23 — 225 pageviews2026-05-26 — 249 pageviews2026-05-29 — 229 pageviews2026-06-01 — 255 pageviews2026-06-04 — 198 pageviews2026-06-07 — 691 pageviews2026-06-10 — 304 pageviews2026-06-13 — 727 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3,371 pageviews2026-06-19 — 462 pageviews2026-06-22 — 403 pageviews2026-06-25 — 555 pageviews2026-06-28 — 264 pageviews2026-07-01 — 418 pageviews2026-07-04 — 281 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1,302 pageviews2026-07-10 — 327 pageviews2026-07-13 — 295 pageviews2026-07-16 — 273 pageviews2026-07-19 — 216 pageviews2026-07-22 — 194 pageviews2026-07-25 — 205 pageviews2026-07-28 — 265 pageviews2026-07-31 — 244 pageviews2026-08-03 — 211 pageviews2026-08-06 — 246 pageviews2026-08-09 — 203 pageviews2026-08-12 — 200 pageviews2026-08-15 — 212 pageviews2026-08-18 — 213 pageviews2026-08-21 — 629 pageviews2026-08-24 — 483 pageviews2026-08-25 — 493 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-26 19:15 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

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

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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