How many copies has We Happy Few sold?

indielist estimates We Happy Few has sold between 536,448 and 1,251,712 units (median 894,080), derived from its 11,176 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published We Happy Few?

We Happy Few was published by Gearbox Publishing, developed by Compulsion Games. See Gearbox Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 11,176 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.

Is We Happy Few worth playing?

Steam players rate We Happy Few 77% positive across 11,176 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

We Happy Few

Aug 10, 2018 Action $59.99

Developer Compulsion Games Publisher Gearbox Publishing

Profile updated May 2026

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.

We Happy Few is a 2018 Action game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 11,176 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 536,000 to 1.3 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

11,176

Positive

77%

Steam appid

320240

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 17:01 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

536K to 1.3M

units (median: 894K)

≈ $18.4M to $42.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

536K median 1.3M

+ How is this calculated?

11,176 reviews × NB(80) = 894,080 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$60	+15
positive_77%	0
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for We Happy Few at roughly 536,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 894,000, derived from its 11,176 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.6M 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

54 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $59.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-06.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has We Happy Few sold?: indielist estimates We Happy Few has sold between 536,448 and 1,251,712 units (median 894,080), derived from its 11,176 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published We Happy Few?: We Happy Few was published by Gearbox Publishing, developed by Compulsion Games. See Gearbox Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 11,176 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
Is We Happy Few worth playing?: Steam players rate We Happy Few 77% positive across 11,176 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like We Happy Few can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as The Forest, Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, The Beast Inside, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.