We Happy Few: How Much Happiness Can a Person Take?
Try to escape a lifetime of cheerful denial
From developer Compulsion Games (Contrast), We Happy Few is set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in 1960s England in which everyone is perpetually happy via a drug called Joy.
Throughout the city are video screens on which an omnipresent Big Brother type called Uncle Jack appears, telling everyone how important it is to be happy.
But you don’t want to be happy all the time, so you avoid taking the drug. You want to leave the city but you must first collect supplies without calling attention to yourself. This means acting happy when you’re not.
If you blow your cover, the townsfolk will become not-so-happy (but apparently still smiling) and come after you. At these times, it’s in your best interest to ingest some Joy (available in red phone booths!) in order to become less suspect and avert having your head bashed in. You can also choose to fight back or run away.
This is all Compulsion Games has shared thus far about We Happy Few. Development is at an early stage, so I’m sure more info will be released in the coming months.
The Happy Few will be released on PC at a date TBD.
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