We Happy Few est un FPS où le joueur incarne un employé lambda, dont la vie va basculer le jour où il va arrêter de prendre ses comprimés de 'Joy', la drogue qui rend heureux. Lâché au cœur d'une ville rétrofuturiste dans une Angleterre alternative des années 60, il va falloir se fondre parmi d’autres habitants qui se montrent bien peu aimables envers ceux qui ne se plient pas à leurs étranges règles.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.