Developer Compulsion Games has announced its post-launch content plans for drug-fuelled dystopian nightmare We Happy Few, including three new story episodes for season pass owners and a free sandbox survival mode.
Sandbox Mode is set to arrive as a free update following We Happy Few’s release this Friday, August 10th, and is described as a highly customisable “infinite mode”. You’ll be able to tweak a whole range of parameters prior to embarking on a bout of survival adventuring, adjusting the size of the world, how deadly it is, the amount of food available, and more. It’s even possible to play as one of the game’s policeman-like Wellies.
In other words, Sandbox Mode sounds very much like the open-ended, procedurally generated survival experience that We Happy Few was originally envisaged as at the start of its development, and the game that originally released on Steam early access in 2016. Since then, of course, Compulsion has changed tack, and the final release will offer a much more structured, narrative-heavy experience, similar to that implied by the original announcement trailer.
Source: Eurogamer We Happy Few is getting season pass story episodes, free post-launch sandbox mode