We Happy Few

 PlayStation 4
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5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 126 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 126
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 126
  3. Negative: 44 out of 126
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  1. Dodringo64
    Aug 17, 2018
    4
    We Happy Few is not an awful game. It has an interesting narrative spanning three separate characters with some enjoyable survival gameplay aspects. However, this game should not be sold at a full price point of £50. Nothing has justified this to me and it would be just fine at around £20-£30. The game also feels very slow making We Happy Few feel so empty. Unless this game gets some kindWe Happy Few is not an awful game. It has an interesting narrative spanning three separate characters with some enjoyable survival gameplay aspects. However, this game should not be sold at a full price point of £50. Nothing has justified this to me and it would be just fine at around £20-£30. The game also feels very slow making We Happy Few feel so empty. Unless this game gets some kind of patch, this is not worth your money or your time.… Expand
  2. MidnightFowl
    Aug 11, 2018
    4
    The only thing this game has going for it is the art direction and world. The gameplay is clunky and broken way too often, not too mention the game runs around 20fps on my ps4 slim. I'm finding it difficult to be engaged in the story when my means to interacting with said story is being hindered by mundane broken gameplay and poor performance. This is the last time I play another GearboxThe only thing this game has going for it is the art direction and world. The gameplay is clunky and broken way too often, not too mention the game runs around 20fps on my ps4 slim. I'm finding it difficult to be engaged in the story when my means to interacting with said story is being hindered by mundane broken gameplay and poor performance. This is the last time I play another Gearbox title, it is the same typical experience from them every time.… Expand
  3. DtheCorgi
    Aug 12, 2018
    3
    I haven't been this disappointed since ps4's servers last went down. We Happy Few's name must be referring to the publishers and devs fleecing all of the intrigued masses for money. What was a promising idea and admittedly pretty environment gave way to lackluster "go here with a shopping list" quests, and samey areas. At least the two styles I could get to.

    The slog was made even worse    I haven't been this disappointed since ps4's servers last went down. We Happy Few's name must be referring to the publishers and devs fleecing all of the intrigued masses for money. What was a promising idea and admittedly pretty environment gave way to lackluster "go here with a shopping list" quests, and samey areas. At least the two styles I could get to.

    The slog was made even worse by no less than 20 crashes, 3 completely unplayable bugged side quests, 20 fps on a ps4 pro, and a culmination to the bug filled straw that broke the camels back making the game unfinishable early in the story. The game boasts having two other characters; I'm left unconvinced. The only thing good about the bugged story quest is I could finally stop playing this misery simulator. Ironic, given the game is based around false happiness pills which leaves you feeling like rubbish after.

    If I were Gearbox, I would be utterly ashamed my name was on this. If I were Compulsion, I'd install showers in the office and not have anyone leave until it were fixed. And if I were myself on the day I bought it, I'd mug myself. Would still have experienced the misery and suffering of trying to get this to work and I'd still have my $60.

    Score: 1 point out of ten for the idea, one for the visuals, and one for the laughs it gave when it did work, followed shortly by a crash. Toodles!    … Expand
  4. shiftyman
    Aug 18, 2018
    0
    Just your typical, not ready for release, trash. Bug filled empty chore world, with some of the worse ai, to go along with constant frame rate drops, yet more greedy b grade devs want full price for this trash. I’m one of the happy few, because thankfully I didn’t have to pay to play this pile of crud.
  5. RyanJamesSez
    Aug 16, 2018
    2
    Buried in this game is a nifty concept, but it gets bogged down by a slew of bugs and crashes. The developers have had three years to work on this game, and for it to release in a broken state is inexcusable. The only reason it's not a zero is the neat art direction and concept, but if your game doesn't work, your game sucks. I will not "wait for a patch" because you've already had yearsBuried in this game is a nifty concept, but it gets bogged down by a slew of bugs and crashes. The developers have had three years to work on this game, and for it to release in a broken state is inexcusable. The only reason it's not a zero is the neat art direction and concept, but if your game doesn't work, your game sucks. I will not "wait for a patch" because you've already had years to fix everything.… Expand
  6. Drewbeast
    Aug 17, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only reason this is even a 2 is that the voice acting and concept are so good. This game is truly awful. I'm not the type to get bogged down by little glitches, random animations, textures popping in and out, that kind of thing does not bother me at all. This has CONSTANT crashes and game breaking glitches, freezes and crashes that cannot in any way lead to a good experience with this game.

    During my first try I braved all the massive crashes and glitches to get all the way to the beginning of Act 2, where it promptly glitched, went insane (characters popping out of thin air inside my house, my inventory disappearing right before my eyes, not being able to interact with anything, it just went nuts) and crashed. Upon rebooting, I got a lovely black screen saying the data was corrupted, then it erased my entire playthrough. When I tried to delete it from my system it actually crashed the system software! So I did everything I could, updated everything, re downloaded, ran a barebones game with NO manual saves (as this game can crash even when idling in the background.) no subtitles, actually stopping right where standing when it auto saves, then quitting to main menu and closing the whole application when finishing a session.

    I FINALLY got back to Act 2. Which is awful. Love that the only female character is literally the worst stereotype possible. Petite, weak (can't even use a frying pan as a weapon because it's too heavy. Wtf?) has to seduce every man to get what she wants and cooks and cleans to take care of the byproduct of her many affairs, I found I hated her character and lost all interest in even the story. Which is good, because all the things you need to progress in her tale randomly disappear from her inventory, whether kept on you, dropped, or put in storage, never to be found on the map. I don't know how this game got ANY good reviews. It's trash and I'm currently seeking a refund. Wish I could get back the time wasted.    … Expand
  7. Steyraus
    May 24, 2021
    2
    The only thing I liked was the look of the outside world. Hated the characters, story, tone, visuals.. Just trash to the core..
  8. DrummBumm
    Sep 13, 2018
    3
    I feel like this game tried to be an alternate version of 'BioShock', but failed. The story was OK and somewhat original considering now-a-day creativity., the graphics were cartoony and to be honest subpar. The gameplay was meh, nothing new or special with FPS', and the skill web and special attributes options were average at best. By far the worst part of this game is the loading times.I feel like this game tried to be an alternate version of 'BioShock', but failed. The story was OK and somewhat original considering now-a-day creativity., the graphics were cartoony and to be honest subpar. The gameplay was meh, nothing new or special with FPS', and the skill web and special attributes options were average at best. By far the worst part of this game is the loading times. I think one time it was literally 3 minutes before the game loaded initially. Kind of unnaceptable considering this game doesn't merit lonnnng loading times with unspectacular gameplay. The game looks cool, but its really not!… Expand
  9. TheSilentRose
    Sep 7, 2018
    2
    At first the game was definitely intruiging but as the game progressed, frame rates dropped so hard it could have cause a seizure. The game continued to crash every 30 minutes and was just no fun to redo over and over and over again. Do not pay fuil value for this game. I was lucky enough to trade it back in within a week and got my money/value back out of it. I wouldn't pay more than 25$At first the game was definitely intruiging but as the game progressed, frame rates dropped so hard it could have cause a seizure. The game continued to crash every 30 minutes and was just no fun to redo over and over and over again. Do not pay fuil value for this game. I was lucky enough to trade it back in within a week and got my money/value back out of it. I wouldn't pay more than 25$ canadian for this game.… Expand
  10. Zakis1991
    Jul 8, 2022
    0
    Ну ребят, не стоит покупать даже на акции. Игра линейна, и сырая все еще. Не знаю, плохо, однообразные противники, геймплей такой же. Короче все с игрой плохо.
  11. Carennas87
    Dec 1, 2019
    2
    Game was fun for a little bit, albeit NPC's and buildings are copy and pasted all over the place with a heavy lack of diversity, annoyingly tedious at times with quests and objectives not being streamlined (I try to follow the main quest when I don't want to do side quests but it doesn't tell me which quests/side quests have to be completed first since they aren't even in order in theGame was fun for a little bit, albeit NPC's and buildings are copy and pasted all over the place with a heavy lack of diversity, annoyingly tedious at times with quests and objectives not being streamlined (I try to follow the main quest when I don't want to do side quests but it doesn't tell me which quests/side quests have to be completed first since they aren't even in order in the Quests menu page, resulting in online searches with scarce results to choose from and tons of backtracking/extra marathon runs around the map,) map is not very user friendly (can't tell if joy booths/workbenches are easy to get to or concealed in a building/hatch, certain icons like a workbench inside a hatch leads you to exactly where it would be on the outside map but doesn't lead you to its hatch first in order to get to the bench, etc..,) not being able to save for no reason (sometimes if you wait in the paused menu long enough, the greyed out Save Game will turn black even though it wasn't in the process of autosaving,) and of course the crashes upon crashes as Sally, most prominently in St. George's Holm, and the fewer crashes as Arthur and Ollie, but you get the idea. It's kind of like, "Look at this cool game! I threw the instructions out but included some somewhat useful and some not-so-useful tips throughout the load screens. Thanks for your money and try not to mind the crashes and bugs!"

    This game is not close to being worth the $79.99 I paid. At that price, this game should be on par with Game of the Year games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Fallout 3 and 4. I'm so disappointed that I didn't get the same great experience that left me longing for the next game to come out like those ones do, and I love post-apocalyptic/dystopian games and movies. My biggest disappointment is that I didn't buy the hard copy game (bought it through the PS4 store,) so I can't even sell it to get at least some money back.

    If they get around to making a second installment, I hope they take notes from award-winning games of similar genres and ditch the current infrastructure they used for this one. It had a chance for greatness but I get the feeling they wanted to differentiate themselves and make it their own too much which came at the cost of quality.

    Final words: save your money for something better.    … Expand
  12. JasonGold
    Oct 10, 2020
    0
    One of the only games I have ever played that I could not finish due to technical bugs. The game is riddled with bugs, but for the most part was still playable. It was frustrating having to reload after a crash (5-6 times) and the slow downs and pauses in game play for various reasons but I got through all that and kept going. I kept playing because the story was good and the somewhatOne of the only games I have ever played that I could not finish due to technical bugs. The game is riddled with bugs, but for the most part was still playable. It was frustrating having to reload after a crash (5-6 times) and the slow downs and pauses in game play for various reasons but I got through all that and kept going. I kept playing because the story was good and the somewhat repetitive gameplay was still good. I would have gone to the end except for the one mission that was broken and could not be completed. The Ex Cathedra mission in Sally’s play through was broken. The key you need to exit the mission was not where it should have been and I was apparently screwed. I went back to all previous saves, even before beginning that mission, but it still happened. This is a known bug fixed years ago and yet it happened to me in 9/2020 and ruined the mostly broken game. You can read about the many many many flaws in this game and how broken it is, memory leaks, repetitive play, few character sounds and animations, but to not be able to finish… unbelievable.… Expand
  13. borla
    Nov 7, 2021
    3
    The idea is really fantastic, but it is bad constructed. A lot of bugs on ps4 game and sometimes the pill thing it's really boring
  14. Cdinnes11
    Jul 10, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is by far the worst game I have ever played. It's sad because the story is unique and I loved the story. But the gameplay mechanics are extremely unfair, stupid hard, and ridiculously annoying. Jesus christ I have never hated a game this much.… Expand
  15. vicwolk
    Aug 24, 2022
    4
    Crashes really drain the **** out of the "joy" of playing this game. Background story is cool, game is interesting. Mechanics are ok, too, but it seems to be poorly ported (yes, I'm talking about the clumsy L1 mechanics -- ever heard of ability/item wheels? Well, they didn't). Music is week or nearly non existent.

    Overall, I will stop playing after the third crash in the same part of the    Crashes really drain the **** out of the "joy" of playing this game. Background story is cool, game is interesting. Mechanics are ok, too, but it seems to be poorly ported (yes, I'm talking about the clumsy L1 mechanics -- ever heard of ability/item wheels? Well, they didn't). Music is week or nearly non existent.


    Overall, I will stop playing after the third crash in the same part of the village. Maybe played it for 15-20h, but I can hear my PS4 not being able to handle the poor optimization of this game before every crash. Yes, these PS3 graphics are not running smoothly on PS4, as one would think they should.    … Expand
  16. Earthian
    Oct 28, 2022
    1
    Loading here, loading their, loading everywhere and then sometimes it crash and you need to open the game again and then wait all the loadings. Open the game, loading... at the game menu screen, loading... "Press x to start", lag... "resume game" lag... and the long loading. when in the game if you run fast sometimes it crash and automatically exit you. I thought this ge is nice. but itsLoading here, loading their, loading everywhere and then sometimes it crash and you need to open the game again and then wait all the loadings. Open the game, loading... at the game menu screen, loading... "Press x to start", lag... "resume game" lag... and the long loading. when in the game if you run fast sometimes it crash and automatically exit you. I thought this ge is nice. but its boring. You always run here run their . this is my first time rrating a videogame. and disappointed. when i first s… Expand
  17. lxsthighway
    Apr 15, 2023
    0
    completely unplayable for me on ps4. I tried deleting it and starting over and same gamebreakinig bug at about 8 hours in

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Metascore
67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. GameCritics
    Oct 2, 2018
    50
    Overall, there are some incredible ideas in We Happy Few‘s dystopian world, but the tedious gameplay gave me the feeling that a project like this has more potential as a story-driven adventure in a more compact world. With greater focus on its excellent narrative, sound and visuals, and an addition of moral choices, it would rise above the unsatisfying mixed-genre affair that it currently is.
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  2. Gaming Nexus
    Sep 17, 2018
    65
    The ideas of power, giving in to hegemonic cycles just to feel safe, and other gameplay systems are unfortunately overshadowed by the technical hiccups found in the game's software. It's a shame, because this game could have been good.
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  3. Video Chums
    Sep 7, 2018
    58
    We Happy Few is an ambitious title with an interesting premise but it fails to deliver on the things that make a video game fun to play.
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