Compulsion Games

Happiness. People want the key to it; they base love on it, and they say that money can’t buy it.  Imagine if it were as easy as taking a pill …
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Just two new games launch today on the Xbox One store. First up is TerraTech from Payload Studios, an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own …
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It’s hard to believe it was two years ago when We Happy Few made its splash at Microsoft’s E3 conference, showcasing their antidepressant-fueled dystopia via gameplay of the game’s unsettling opening. …
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The elephant in the room heading into E3 2018 didn’t need to be mentioned. It loomed omnipresent over Microsoft. I could comment on the cancelation of Scalebound or the delay …
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We Happy Few is the latest videogame to get it’s own movie. The game, which is currently available through the Xbox One Game Preview Program, caught the eye of transmedia …
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Compulsion Games have revealed the inspiration behind their intriguing We Happy Few which arrived on the Xbox One Game Preview Program earlier this week. Set in an dystopian 1960s English …
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Microsoft revealed at their E3 press briefing that We Happy Few from Compulsion Games will hit the Xbox One via the Game Preview program on July 26. Set in an …
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Have you ever had a very realistic dream that you couldn’t wake up from? One where everything seemed normal, but you just couldn’t shake the shivering feeling that something was …
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Earlier this week, ID@Xbox Director Chris Charla wrote a post on Xbox Wire updating everyone on the state of ID@Xbox. He outlined a lot of new things on the horizon, including a transition towards cross-network …
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The bright white face masks of We Happy Few turned heads on the PAX East show floor this year with their sinister gaze and art style. If you played Contrast, you will immediately recognize Compulsion Games’ handiwork. We Happy Few‘s characters wear a look that says, “Be happy, or else.” And that’s what the game is about.

Creative Director Guillaume Provost explained that We Happy Few explores a dystopian alternate history that takes place 20 years after the Nazis won World War II. How might have Hitler’s ideological fantasies manifested themselves over time? What would daily life be like? What would happen if you tried to resist?

It’s these open questions that the team at Compulsion Games put a lot of thought into. They came up with a world in which the government engineered a utopia where every single person is required to be blissfully happy — no exceptions. To accomplish this, the government keeps everybody drugged so that they will never need to worry about anything at all, not even worry itself. Everybody must be happy, and everybody must conform.

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