Wellington Wells, the island city off the British coast, awaits you in We Happy Few. You meet friendly people, visit green parks and enjoy life as long as you take the pink pills.
Arthur Hastings
We Happy Few is a hard-hitting survival game. You play Arthur Hastings, who works as a censor for the city government. Ensures that the townspeople have no unwanted thoughts or influences. While reading the newspaper, a report tells you that Percy is a bit overpriced. You think back to the time when is gone.
The alternate 1964 in We Happy Few
We Happy Few is set in your time when the Germans won World War II. All children under the age of 13 are sent to Germany as emperors. Among them is the brother Percy.
What happened to Percy?
You ask yourself this question and you begin to wean the pink pills of joy. Unfortunately, a work colleague notices this. Soon you will be followed by the bobbys of the city and escape on different escape routes. Here's a look at what's really wrong with the city of Wellington Wells.
Pumped full of drugs
The populace knows nothing and ignores everything while swallowing the pills that are given to them. Those who cannot take "joy" pills must not return to society and participate in everyday life.
villages and ruins
As shipping abandoned, ruins crumble and cars stand around as wrecks. The people of the country are desperate. 2 other characters await you in the game as well. Sally Boyle is a chemist and Arthur's childhood crush. The second character is Ollie Starkey, who owns voice.
The game style
Depending on which character you play, you need different game services. Sally likes to sneak around while Olli blows up everything that comes along in the meantime. But first, zu helps Arthur escape.
The start of the game
You start in a shelter on the island. These rooms are connected to the entire island via tunnel networks. This allows you to travel quickly. Here you can sleep, assemble objects on workbenches and store materials. You need healing potions, tools and weapons to survive. First aid kits are also useful. For this you need different clothes to be able to reprimand yourself. Depending on where you move, the local residents can be quick to sad. In addition, you unlock skills that you reduce in combat.
The Joy Pills
If you take a joy pill from time to time, the residents will become less suspicious and you will be able to move freely in some places. In addition, needs for sleep, hunger and thirst rushed. This can sometimes affect your stamina or what you can build if you haven't had enough sleep.
story and tasks
You mainly follow the story and smaller life tasks. There's a lot of wacky humor built into it. The game itself is built on the human psyche, thematizing the surveillance state and wall of silence built around local events.
Conclusion on We Happy Few
Compulsion Games created a really interesting survival game. The story certainly travels, the survival mechanics are important to progress, and the setting is co-designed in detail. It puts you back in the sixties or Spreeblick a lot of excitement with security is not that easy. Definitely a recommendation for survival games.
The developer of the game is Compulsion Games.
Gearbox Publishing acts as publisher.
Here you come to the official We Happy Few website