ABSTRACT
We Happy Few is a survival adventure game set in a 1964 England that lost World War II and was occupied for four years by the Germans. Now, everyone is taking happy pills—Joy—to forget the terrible things they did back then. You, the player, are not. So you have to flee. The world of We Happy Few is a small archipelago, of which the biggest islands are procedurally generated (Figure 18.1). In the playthrough of the first player character, Arthur, the ruined Garden District is two islands, and Hamlyn Village, where happiness is obligatory, is two more islands. (These numbers vary in the other playthroughs; it’s a conceit of the game that big things change between playthroughs because the characters remember things differently.)
