https://www.polygon.com/e3/2018/6/10/17446892/we-happy-few-release-date-xbox-one > A new trailer for We Happy Few, the surrealist adventure game from Compulsion games and publisher Gearbox, ended with a launch date: Aug. 10. > We Happy Few takes place in a psychedelic, fictional version of England, where players must survive as society disintegrates around them. It’s a dystopian future that tells an alternate, darker version of World War II — one where the ramifications of the war are still felt all the way in the 1960s.