Happy Wars Hits Xbox One This Week

Japanese developer Toylogic on Tuesday announced that the Xbox One version of its free-to-play action game Happy Wars will be released this coming Friday, April 24. The game accidentally went live earlier this month, but was swiftly removed from the Xbox Store.


Happy Wars was originally released for Xbox 360 back in 2012 as the platform's first free-to-play game. It has since tallied nearly 10 million downloads, Toylogic announced today. This is up from 8 million in 2014.

New to Happy Wars? It's a large-scale online multiplayer game that offers six unique classes and loads of customization options. Check out our review for more on how it plays.

People who already played the Xbox 360 version of Happy Wars will see their progress data (items and rank) transfer over to the Xbox One edition. The new Xbox One version also comes with a split-screen feature that allows up to four people to play on a single console.

Of course, the new edition also comes with better visuals, along with improved lighting, special effects, and textures. In addition, Toylogic said it has updated the Xbox One version of Happy Wars with the 20+ patches that have been released for the Xbox 360 version to date. These updates have included things like more game modes, classes, stages, and items, and new Xbox One players will get all of that from day one.

Although Toylogic had originally planned to offer cross-platform play between the Xbox One and Xbox 360 editions of Happy Wars, this feature was dropped last year.

Happy Wars is also available on PC through Steam. Though Happy Wars is a free-to-play game, players can also spend real-world money to buy things like extra in-game currency and customization packs, among other things. You can watch a trailer for the Xbox One edition of Happy Wars below.

Don't know why I enjoy this mp game on the 360. Been waiting for this game to come onto Xboxone. Thanks for the update.

Nice post. Never played this. Is it good? Also, can you play it without spending cash?

Played this one briefly on the 360 just cant remember if I liked it or not though. I'll give it a chance though.

Yes you can play this game for free. With the amount of hours I have played, which is alot and not spent a single penny. I didn't even feel like I was underpowered by the players who have bought things through the game.

Colne Crusader wrote:Nice post. Never played this. Is it good? Also, can you play it without spending cash?

Only played it once on the 360 so cant really give an opinions, but if theres 20million users, it must be good, right?
As Stee mentioned though, money isn't really needed.

I played it on the 360 quite a bit its really addictive .I also did not spend any money and never felt underpowered at any time.Downloaded it this morning it synced my 360 characters and played 1 game got 21 achievements

Might have to download this later

Sweet. Thanks for the advice. Only just seen your posts. I'll download it later on!

Downloaded yesterday, but having no joy joining a quick game, keeps telling me I have left the session as cannot communicate with other players.........