History VideoGame / WeHappyFew

** The Life In Technicolor update overhauls the inventory system, replacing the GridInventory's InventoryManagementPuzzle with a weight-based inventory that you can scroll through. Additionally, you now have four quickslots that autopopulate with similar items when you run out of an item (ex. running out of healing balms is replaced with another healing item). The game also now pauses while in the menu now, as it originally did not to build up paranoia.

* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: Once you reach the final mission of each story, you will be prompted on whether or not you want to continue, as this will lock you out of any side quests you haven't finished yet. In Sally's story, it also adds that you must play her final mission at in-game night and [[spoiler:you will be unable to attack or hold items, as Sally needs to carry the bag holding Gwen]].

* BeeBeeGun: Given to Ollie by Roger and James. It's made for pollinating plants, but you can just as easily use it as a weapon. People will panic and run if you shoot a swarm of bees at them, but you do have to load the gun (ie. suck up the bees) yourself.

*** A quest involving World War II soldiers is called "Band of Brothers," which also comes from ''Henry V'', specifically the line, "We few, '''we happy few''', we band of brothers."

** There is also one side-effect that no one, not even ''Downers'', dare talk about, which is most likely [[spoiler: infertility. That, or flying into a homicidal rage at the sight of children and pregnant people]].

** Ollie Starkey [[spoiler: hallucinates Margret Worthing as his companion]] throughout the entirety of his act; he also seems incapable of recognising Arthur when they first meet in game as well believing him to be another wastrel (no matter what your wearing)

* PsychopathicManchild: Whether it's because of the Joy, the "Very Bad Thing", or some other kerfuffle, the people of Wellington Wells act like wild caricatures of adulthood rather than proper adults. There are also playgrounds scattered around town, they can't resist splashing around in puddles, and Uncle Jack entertains the masses with bedtime stories and games of Simon Says.

* RaygunGothic: This an British variant that takes place in an alternate 1964, where mostly of its technology, style and aesthetics are from. There are also some elements of Steampunk.

** The final ending of the game in the ''We All Fall Down'' DLC, is also this, though it leans more bitter than sweet; Victoria destroys the lab producing Joy, ending its hold over Wellington Wells once and for all. However, as predicted, the town immediately falls into chaos. When the smoke clears, almost everyone in town is dead, and what few survivors resent Victoria for her part in causing the town's destruction. The ending leaves it ambiguous as to what will happen next, but, at the very least, there is the chance for recovery now that those who survived no longer depend on Joy to rule their lives, meaning there is at least the ''chance'' for healing.

* HeelRealization: The DLC starts where we last saw Victoria Byng after she escaped from Ollie Starkey. [[spoiler:While looking for a Mood Booth to replenish her Joy fix, she saw just how messed up the town was. By the time she found a booth, she see’s an old woman dancing on the blood of dead Wells, that’s when she realized that she needed a clear head to find a solution.]]

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The Plague wastrels, the late stage of their infection drives them rabid, making them maul any uninfected persons on sight. Not only that, but strangely, the infection made them forget English, instead, they speak and ramble in Irish Gaelic.

"We All Fall Down" is the final DLC, taking place in the last days of Wellington Wells. With its population too addled by Joy to undertake the basic necessities of growing food or repairing damaged infrastructure, and all contact cut off with the outside world, Wellington Wells is on its last legs. Starvation and plague run rampant, and the Wellies still cling to their Joy even as they die. The last sane survivor in the entire city, [[spoiler:Victoria Byng]], decides that enough is enough and it's time to get out whilst there's still time.

*** The House of the Future exhibit is [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture what Wellies think the life will be like in twenty years]]... and twenty years from 1964 just so happens to be 1984. The developers shrug over whether or not this was intentional.

** WWII ended up taking such a dramatic turn because Franklin Roosevelt was assassinated (WordOfGod implies the 1933 assassination attempt on him succeeded) and got replaced by someone less competent, whereas Adolf Hitler was deposed and replaced by someone ''more'' competent — Erwin Rommel.

* AllJustADream: General Byng appears to Victoria after she escapes from prison, but the circumstances (since Sally has likely already killed him by this point in the timeline) and him disappearing right afterwards indicate that he's just a hallucination.

''We Happy Few'', developed by Creator/CompulsionGames, was released on July 26, 2016 as an early access title for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]], [[UsefulNotes/Playstation4 Playstation 4]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac]], [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GOGDotCom, and the [[UsefulNotes/HumbleBundle Humble Store]], and an Xbox Game Preview title on UsefulNotes/XboxOne. The full release was planned for April 14, 2018, though this was later pushed back to mid-summer. The game was partly crowdfunded through a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign, which [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy reached its goal]] on June 28, 2015; the campaign ended on July 4. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JoxSLTV-E It was announced on August 16, 2017 that Gearbox Software would become the game's publisher]].

** Ollie finds a soldier named Baden-Powell being attacked by Plagies in the military camp and remembers that he was a "kiss ass" when they worked together in India. Baden-Powell was the name of the founder of the Boy Scouts.

* HeelRealization: The DLC starts where we last saw Victoria Byng after she escaped from Ollie Starkey. [[spoiler:While looking for a Mood Booth to replenish her Joy fix, she saw just how messed up the town was. By the time she found a booth, she realized that she needed a clear head to find a solution.]]

** Various achievements/trophies include: "[[VideoGame/BioShock Shocking Biology]]", "[[Film/ApocalypseNow I Love the Smell of Chloroform in the Morning]]", "[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Not In Kansas Any More]]", "[[Music/TheBeatles Baby You're a Rich Man]]", "[[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Gotta Catch Them All!]]", "[[Series/BreakingBad Breaking Blackberry]]", "[[Franchise/StarTrek Resistance is Futile]]", "[[VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack You Do Know Jack]]", "[[UsefulNotes/GuyFawkes Remember, Remember]]", "[[Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe The Slaughterer's Apprentice]]", and "The Discworld/WyrdSisters".

* NoOSHACompliance: Wellington Wells has this in spades. The factories and laboratories have poor to no safety standards with electrified floors, chemical leaks all over the place. Even the town has segments where the motiline pipes are about to burst and create chemical fumes. This is a justified case as Wellington Wells is an isolated society, and the English version of OSHA probably can't get in.

* LighterAndSofter: It's a lot less heavy than the main game, or even the other DLCs, that's for sure.