We Happy Few
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 13,797
- Critics
- 62 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 31% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 21.1h
- To 100%
- 66.8h 3.2x the story
- Achievements
- 70
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 October 2021
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 75 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 70% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
54 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. The Beast Inside ($24.99, scores 48) outscores it, and so does Slender: The Arrival ($19.99, scores 52). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about We Happy Few
62 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,052 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 21.1 hours. Doing everything runs 67, 3.2 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It is a very fun game. It is difficult but it is fun with amazing graphics and animations
2 more reviews
This game is one of my favorites. I first played it through and 100% completed the DLC's on xbox around 2021. The graphics are okay for 2026 standards. Despite this game being released in 2018, it is still riddled with bugs and MANY, MANY visual glitches. NPC's constantly go through walls, jump out of the floor, fall from the sky, etc. If you're looking at this game for achievement hunting purposes, this game takes...
This game had a great story. Talk about a massive game, too, between the three characters and all the quests and different ways to play. Worth the effort to play, was so fun!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
We Happy Few scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/320240/we-happy-fewReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.