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We All Fall Down is the third and final DLC for We Happy Few. Playing as Victoria Byng, it focuses on the city of Wellington Wells itself, its society, its history and why the Executive Committee decided to build the city into what it is in 1964.[1]

It was released on November 19, 2019[2] and is also part of the We Happy Few Season Pass.

Victoria Byng is the playable protagonist of We All Fall Down. The DLC takes place after she manages to escape from Ollie Starkey in Act III.

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The environment is fixed, meaning the layout will be the same on every playthrough.

Victoria gets two weapons, her horse whip and a dart gun. The whip not only functions as a weapon, but also as a platforming mechanic, as Victoria can swing to other platforms.

Victoria braces herself on every fall, meaning that every time the player falls, Victoria doesn't take as much time recovering from the fall like any of the other playable characters.

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The Realization[]

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October 23rd, 1964. Right after Ollie Starkey withdraws Victoria off her Joy during Act III, she knocks him out and escapes her home.

As she wanders through Dunkerton District in search of a Mood Booth, she discovers that Wellies have been eating charcoal due to starvation, a plague outbreak in the Village, and dead bodies lying around on the streets.

After finally making it to the booth, she stops herself as the realization of what she's just seen sinks in. A Bobby nearby notices her hesitation, calls her out as a Downer, and attacks her.

After escaping the Bobbies, she hides out in a ransacked building, where she starts to hallucinate her mother talking to her, but shuts her out for the time being. After searching the crumbling house, she finds that a group of people had committed suicide via arsenic during a party, further showing her how the situation in Wellington Wells is worsening.

She escapes to the sewers and is confronted by the Wastrels who live there, scorning her. Once again, she's met with the hallucination of her mother, and is given the idea to visit her father about the situation going on in the city.

After using the Underground tracks to get to the Victory Memorial Camp, she confronts her father, Robert Byng, who is ultimately dismissive about the city collapsing, saying "[...] if our people realize they're running out of food, they'll kill each other for the last box of V-meat!" He then urges her to distract the people by planning a game of Simon Says and tells her to go back on her Joy. Victoria leaves to see Dr. Verloc, who supposedly has a solution to all of this.

Ignorance is Strength[]

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After crossing the dilapidated bridge, fighting off plague-riddled townsfolk, and passing through the ruined streets, she makes it to Waterloo District. After disabling the Downer Detectors, she enters Haworth Labs. The laborers in the labs have staged a strike, demanding that Sally Boyle be returned to lead the facility instead of Verloc; the Bobbies excuse the revolt as “beautification,” the same term they used to describe towns that were under quarantine from the plague.

Victoria takes down the strikers and meets with Verloc, who is no better at finding a solution than her father is. He's also openly dismissive of the lives being lost in the city, saying that they can sustain whoever is left alive.

Victoria leaves, but not before another hallucination of her mother appears, advising her that people of the city need to get off their Joy, otherwise they will kill themselves from starvation without even realizing it.

Victoria soon gets the idea to cut off Wellington Wells’ Joy supply by destroying the Joy Allocator Hub, thus cutting off the distributuon of Joy to the Mood Booths. She hopes that when the drug wears off and people come to their senses, her father will finally be able to do something; this is easier said than done, as Verloc is now aware that Victoria is off her Joy, and has sent his Joy Doctors after her.

While Victoria succeeds in destroying the Allocator Hub, she soon realized that the Wellies are still able to get their Joy from the water supply. This prompts Victoria to cut off the water to the city; however, Verloc is aware of what she's planning and tries to stop her again. Bobbies and Joy Doctors swarm her, but Victoria successfully destroys the facility, flooding it, and escapes once again.

To Victoria’s dismay, her actions seem to have only made things worse. Wellies are panicking from the lack of Joy in the Mood Booths and the water, causing them to experience withdrawal and become Downers. The combination of their worst memories coming back, remembering that they sent their children away, and the current state of the city has caused rioting in the streets.

Victoria doesn't get far, through, before she's ambushed by a couple of Bobbies and is sent to jail.

Changing Enemy[]

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Victoria sleeps in her cell and recalls a memory of her mother being sent to jail in India. Upon waking up, she is remorseful for the way she treated her mother. Victoria plans to escape her cell, only to find that her cell door is for some reason already unlocked.

Victoria explores the prison; the inmates are all Wellies who were imprisoned as a result of Victoria destroying the town’s Joy and turning everyone into Downers. One of these prisoners she encounters is Johnny Bolton. Johnny tells her that there is no way to truly fix things as long as Verloc and Haworth Labs are still standing, as they're the ones who are ruining the city with their attempts to keep people on Joy. He convinces her to blow up the facility building with explosives that he had already rigged in her house, along with blueprints that he hid in his Hideout in the Square.

Victoria regains her whip from the station and uses it to finally escape the prison. While she's out, she runs into her father, who reveals that he was the one who arranged to have her cell door left open.

It's here that he shows his true side to his daughter; he has no concern for the pain and loss of life in Wellington Wells, revealing that they can escape to his secret bunker that contains over a year’s worth of stockpiled food and supplies. This angers Victoria, who reprimands her father for his greed and hoarding while the people of Wellington Wells starve to death. She shoves her father to the ground and calls him a coward.

Victoria heads back to her house, which is occupied by Bobbies who are looking for her. She manages to get the bombs and the plans from Johnny's hideout, then storms Haworth Labs.

She's confronted by Bobbies, Doctors, and Security Systems, all while Verloc taunts her over the intercom. Despite this, she manages to defeat and escape them all as she sets up the bombs and activates them, prompting her to escape via the roof.

She escapes... right as Ollie Starkey broadcasts Uncle Jack's last tape.

Death, Destroyer of Worlds[]

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When Victoria comes to her senses after the trauma of the explosions, she awakens to a city in complete disarray. The streets and buildings are ruined with dead and murdered Bobbies, Doctors, and Wellies, as well as fire and rubble all over. She passes a Bobby hanging from a noose and a Joy Doctor impaled through the chest with the flag of the United Kingdom, and as she walks through the rubble a woman falls from a roof and lands dead on the pavement in front of her.

Now that there is no more Joy, Jack's last tape has been broadcast, and the town’s memories of their terrible history have risen to the surface, the Wellies and even the Bobbies are starting to wake up from their drug induced apathy, filling them with misery. They even discard their Happy Face Masks, which litter the ground as Victoria makes her way through the ruins.

Victoria comes across a group of survivors, who lash out at her for what she's done. They discuss leaving the city, as there is nothing left for them here. One of the survivors tells Victoria that they do not care what she does or where she goes, as long as it isn’t with them.

Victoria's mother returns to her daughter in one last vision, saying that she did what needed to be done, even if the survivors don't see it that way. Victoria hopes that she did the right thing, and that her mother is hopefully proud of her. Unsure of her future, she considers returning to India to find her mother, who she thinks is “probably still alive”. The credits roll and Victoria’s future is left open to the player’s interpretation.

Buff Conformist Trivia[]

  • The DLC's title is referencing the final lines to "Ring Around o' Rosie", a popular children's rhyme.
    • It could be also slight referenced to the Pre-Release game trailers, which plays a different children's rhyme named "London Bridge Is Falling Down", although altered to fit We Happy Few's narrative.[3]
  • It's possible We All Fall Down was initially supposed to have survival elements just like the base game, with Victoria being able to catch the plague, get thirsty and tired, get infected, and so on. This is supported by a couple of unused voice lines from Victoria found in the game files.
    • In addition to this, Victoria had lines for choking people out, and for getting tired of running for too long, just like Arthur. Why they're not used in the game is unknown.

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