
Next month will be the one year anniversary. There’s no final release date yet, but it was meant to be in Early Access for somewhere between six months and a year. The Birdwatcher playstyle, for instance, lets you explore and quest without worrying about getting thirsty or starving to death.
We happy few release date 2017 update#
The last big update was back in March and introduced a new island, along with more playstyle choices. To find your way out of Wellington Wells and reconstruct the past, you’ll have to blend in with its citizens, who don’t take kindly to those who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.

Alec had a similar reaction to the game last year, though updates since then do seem to have improved things like AI behaviour, navigation and quests. Set in an dystopian 1960’s English city, We Happy Few is the tale of a group of slightly terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial. It’s been a long time since I took a trip through Wellington Wells, but I recall loving the setting and being less than enthused by what I had to do there. By moving to only one final major update, we can merge the Early Access and the story builds earlier, so that we can concentrate all of our efforts on making the story the best it can be. The Parade District, in particular, is intertwined so heavily with the story that we don’t think we can deliver a good “Early Access” version, unlike the other biomes. So far, the content has been able to coexist side by side, but as we add polish and really lace everything together, but this is changing.
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The Early Access build is currently separate to the story build they share a code base, but the content is slightly different. Compulsion Games explained their decision in a post on Steam.Įarly Access is amazing, but it’s becoming very complicated to maintain both a regular update schedule and lock down the story. We Happy Few’s Joy update will launch at the slightly later date of mid-August, but the Parade District will be held back until the final release.

But as anyone who has had to flee from the overzealous police officers of Wellington Wells knows, plans sometimes need to change. The original plan included two future updates: the Joy update, and then a later one that would introduce the new Parade District. Now there’s only going to be one more before launch.

As We Happy Few marches towards release, Compulsion Games have decided to reconsider the future of the dystopian survival game’s Early Access updates.
