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. Set in a
drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England,
you’ll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who don’t take
kindly to people who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.
1960s Dystopian England
Set in a retrofuturistic
1960s, 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 beautiful world on the brink of
collapse. You will discover the history of this world, and how it came
to be just so beguilingly happy.
Suspicion and Joy
We Happy Few is about
surviving in and escaping from a procedurally generated world, where you
must learn to hide in plain sight. If you act out of turn, or you’re
not on Joy (the local happy pills), the locals will become suspicious
and will rapidly turn your frown upside down! Forcefully. You will need
to practice conformity, stealth and combat if you want to survive long
enough to escape.
A Mature Story
We Happy Few’s characters are not
typical video game heroes. They are flawed and not particularly heroic,
warped by the trauma their world has been through. Each character has
their own storyline that reacts to the events of the world around them,
and their place within it. Our stories are definitely not appropriate
for children, but are laced with dark humour, hope, and even a spot of
redemption.