Surprise! We Happy Few Gets PSVR Experience and It’s Free

We’re just a couple days from the anticipated release of We Happy Few, and today developer Compulsion Games released a PlayStation VR component of the game called We Happy Few: Uncle Jack Live VR. And the best part? It’s completely free.

Like the main game, Uncle Jack Live VR is also set in the fictional city of Wellington Wells. This PSVR experience puts you alongside one of the city’s most recognizable celebrities, the titular figure Uncle Jack. According to the official description in the PlayStation Store, players will have to “help Uncle Jack produce an exception show by delivering only the happiest of news and ensuring Wellington Wellies everywhere remember to take their Joy.

Joy, for the uninitiated, is the pill that every citizen of Welling Wells must take to keep them in a perpetual state of happiness. In the main events of We Happy Few, this proves dangerous because anyone who doesn’t take it, is seen as a threat. What follows is a trippy, drug-induced city that wants to make the player just like them.

In Uncle Jack Live VR, players will not only have to contest with Uncle Jack, but also a Downer Outbreak that has found a way inside the studio where he broadcasts. You’ll have to use your own wits to survive the outbreak and, hopefully, put an end to it.

Sweet bonuses are available, too. Compulsion Games invites you to listen to the We Happy Few soundtrack, watch trailers, and relax and sift through the media archives of Uncle Jack episodes.

The download size for the PSVR experience comes at just over 5gb, with a 6gb minimum save file. The full game of We Happy Few will be released this Friday, August 10th for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One. You can check out the announcement trailer for the game below.