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This action-adventure game launched in 2018, featuring gameplay in the action genre. It has garnered 11,124 reviews on Steam, indicating significant player engagement.
Overview
We Happy Few is a 2018 Action game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 13,699 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Compulsion Games with publisher Gearbox Publishing is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 658,000 to 1.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, We Happy Few can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,699
Positive
77%
Steam appid
320240
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0658K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $22.5M to $52.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for We Happy Few at roughly 658,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 13,699 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $37.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $30.17Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $30.17 to $59.99, averaging $54.42 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $30.17 on 2026-04-27.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
AdventureOpen WorldActionSurvivalDystopian First-PersonIndiePsychological HorrorHorrorSingleplayerAtmosphericStealthExplorationDarkCraftingSurvival HorrorMatureProcedural GenerationStory RichEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has We Happy Few sold?
- indielist estimates We Happy Few has sold between 657,552 and 1,534,288 units (median 1,095,920), derived from its 13,699 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed We Happy Few?
- We Happy Few was developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
- When was We Happy Few released?
- We Happy Few was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does We Happy Few have on Steam?
- We Happy Few has 13,699 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has We Happy Few sold?
- indielist estimates We Happy Few has sold between 657,552 and 1,534,288 units (median 1,095,920), derived from its 13,699 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed We Happy Few?
- We Happy Few was developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
- When was We Happy Few released?
- We Happy Few was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does We Happy Few have on Steam?
- We Happy Few has 13,699 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions We Happy Few within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Compulsion Games's other releases and Gearbox Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where We Happy Few sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same We Happy Few page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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