Please Be Happy

Please Be Happy

Worth it · Short indie · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.58.

Length
11.8h 19.8h to 100%
Value
$1.69/hr
Reviews
98% of 438 positive
It needs 22% off ($15.58) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.58 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement28% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.69/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 302 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any GPU that supports at least Vulkan, DirectX 10, or OpenGL 3.2, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 33 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $15.58. The record reaches that level 22 times.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Lake ($19.99, scores 51) and Life is Strange: True Colors ($17.99, scores 66), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Please Be Happy

Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 302 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026.

The drop-off

73% start to 28% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Love it. Especially the second most comonly seen ending (by global achievement count).
JessicaRecommendedafter 34h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
there's something missing in this one. so much of the characters' chemistry just feels. flat? idk. it didn't hold my attention
mousebiteNot recommendedafter 1.9h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Please Be Happy scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/844670/please-be-happy
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStudio Élan
PublisherStudio Élan
GenreShort indie
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements15