Overview
Happy Wars is a free-to-play tactical role-playing video game developed and published by Toylogic. It was originally released for the Xbox 360 on October 12, 2012 on the Xbox Live Arcade as its first free-to-play title, and additionally for Microsoft Windows on May 28, 2014, but availability on the online marketplaces of these platforms and service to these platforms has since been discontinued as of December 17, 2018. The Xbox One version was released on April 24, 2015.
Happy Wars is a multiplayer online game, defined as a role-playing strategy game, although it also has a single player skirmish mode and a short story-driven single player campaign mode. In the main multiplayer mode, players are separated into two teams: the Light Kingdom and the Dark Kingdom. Each team consists of 4-15 players. There are 12 maps to play on, each map having a different number of towers and match time limit. Towers are used as respawn points for when a player is killed, and they can choose to respawn at any tower belonging to their team.
As of September 3, 2014, an Xbox Live Gold account was required to play the game online; due to recent updates, the game now accepts regular Xbox Live members as well.
The Xbox 360 version of Happy Wars received "mixed" reviews as reported by the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN cited lack of players as a concern with the Xbox 360 version and that "Happy Wars went too far in the direction of accessibility with its few classes, lack of distinctive weaponry, and simple game modes." Official Xbox Magazine UK compared said console version to Awesomenauts, but noted that players who pay for additional content appear to have an advantage over other players.
Official trailer
Trailer. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Tactical
- Developer
- Toylogic
- Publisher
- Microsoft Studios
- Series
- Happy Wars
- Platforms
- Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Age rating
- ESRB T
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Local multiplayer
- No
- Online multiplayer
- Yes
- Co op
- Yes
- Age ratings
- ACB
- G
- USK
- 6
- PEGI
- 7
- CERO
- B
- GRAC
- 12+
- CLASS IND
- 10
- ESRB
- T
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Worldwide | 2012-10-12 |
| Xbox 360 | Worldwide | 2018-12-16 |
Playable today
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Has online features | Yes |
Credits
- Region
- US
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