This is NOT a Happy Game || Happy Game (Playthrough ENDING) 

I just love that at the beginning a boy doesn't comprehend of what nightmare he lives in. When he's chasing a ball through place where other kids are studded with spikes he only sees his ball.

I don’t think the kid is dead. He’s definitely dreaming. The game is meant to be psychedelic, so I think it has something to do with taking those types of drugs, or having those sorts of hallucinogenic dreams.

This seems to play a part with depression, cause he's trying to constantly put on a smile even with all his traumatic memories and won't let anyone see what's really happening. He just ignores the problems and focuses on the positives.

I myself struggled with childhood depression, and this game is a disturbingly accurate depiction of how it feels, especially the mechanich of having to pull the main character along to move. Obviously my personal experience was not the exact same but there are several elements that are relatable. I have yet to watch the rest of the gameplay but so far I can recognize the feelings around it

To me, I feel like this game is his final moment. In the death scene, his body is an adult. His brain picked up what is dear to him and created the happiest moment in his life when he died. All the horrors are the reasons he lost them or what traumatized him.

If I be honest, and this isn't really related to the video. But whenever you make commentaries or story explain videos about something, anything... it honestly just brightens up my day, my week. Even when I'm at my worst, and even if these horror games are suppose to hell bounds of blood and tears. I dunno man, you. these videos. just make me feel. happier. been here around 90-100k, and I just wanna say thank you. thank you for helping get through some darkest times. :)

I feel like this game is going to have more lore than fnaf

The game to me personally seems like the type of thing where it's a child that's experienced many many horrible things in his youth and his brain is trying to make sense of it all through a filter, he's too young to understand and has had his innocence and outlook twisted as result.

The moment with those three toys going crazy and getting louder and louder cut out by that high pitched sound hit a little too close to home...

I just finished watching someone else play this game and holy hell this game is definitely "not" a kid getting pstd from nightmares.

Finally, your playing a happy game.

Me: **just realized the video was 1 hour long** Also me: *I thought it was 30 minutes*

34:41 that one explicit laugh haunts me for some reason

He's old to death at the end and those 3 memories was things that he lost when he's a kid and it became his trauma. Lost of his Ball to the bully, his Rabbit Doll to the pond and his Dog (I think its name is Goodie) to the wood : all of them precious, yet, forever lost.

You know i think the smily face sequence might have something to do with abusive parents. After all, what kind of parent would leave their kid alone on a pier where they can lose their rabbit toy?

the part where his going back and forth to a wall shows a story one of which is where a ball hits a kids face now the kids smalling unwillingly

30:59 *Super horror gamer bro’s scared voice “Oh! Go quick! 😨😥😰”

1:02:00 These are cat tails They're just fairly common water reeds And they're not edible But don't you think they oughta be? They've got stalks and these groupings Of highly compressed seedlings That expand rapidly on impact So they're not that good for eating But even so... Me want bite Me want plant corndog delight Me want deep fried Me think water twinkie nice

Personally, I think the rabbits may symbolize innocence. And his truma and depression are corrupting his childhood innocence.

Things that make the boy happy dispel the darkness he feels

I was waiting for you to play it :)

I like you more because of your fast curiosity, like you do things very fast and not slow and stupidly like other youtuber.

if you like the silly puzzle content in this game, they devs made another game called chuchel

20:56 its probably onw of my favorite bits

If you notice, his eyes get more and more black. Could that be the darkness taking over him?

Why does it feel like murder is hiding in the shadows and tormenting this little boy?

MIKE!!! In poppy playtime in the video clio at the start theres a hidden message reverse the clip at the begging

The art sytle of this game is amazing

Im seriously gonna regret watching this at night

This feels like a lucid dream or drug trip honestly.. I can't see reality watching this...

The part where it's a circle earth and the creepy part looks like the buried forest dinsindualy insulated (bfdi) from bfb 14

hiding under a face of happiness………..BUT I AIN`T!

3:38 not a mic i'm sure that's the thing humans draw on ground and jump on 1 leg in the "roxies" i don't know what it's called in english.

I'm very intrigued and interested. Its like a Salavador Dali painting mixed with Alice in wonderland....one long disturbing psychedelic trip.

This game is really creative and stylistic! I wonder what the true meaning is tho

The things that the boy sees is very disturbing in a sense... :/ I find it disturbing tbh 😭

he took like ten minutes to see the wall’s story

Maybe he's seeing the future in his dream.

I say that this game is very Chuchel until I realize it's from the same developper.

this reminds me of limbo and chuchel(chuchel is this game about a little guy trying to get a cherry)

Even between the darkest things there is happyness! 👿😃⚽️🐰🐕

Im a big fan i love this👍👍👍👍👍👍

This is a happy game for happy people

Hold on The guy in the game sounds like the pink thing from chuchel doesn’t he? 1:37

You play the happy game and now you are going to explain its meaning

If you have things you have to run!!!

just good luck trying to figure out what this game lore is

This game is more sad than scary.

It was happy at the start then sad at the end, he wasn't able to fulfill his childhood dreams thus clinging to the past :(

Just a little hint for your theory, the version of him splatted on the floor at the end is his adult self :)

I hope we get a explained video for this because it’s hard to understand what’s happening

this game seems to be an accurate depiction of what ddepression is like. Where everyone around you just tells you to "be happy" but the things that used to make you happy have all been tainted and distorted and corrupted so that no matter how much you chase after it, happiness never comes.

Every single time there's a scary thing happened, the poor kid got scared but the moment he sees the ball, he smiled and chased it, completely ignoring the scary thing earlier. "Happy Game" indeed....for a moment at least

The game about a child who never grow from a traumatic events and he turned to the drugs to make himself happy but in the end he still haunted by traumatic memories

Damn, forgot about this creepy thing for a while, now to finally see wtf is going on in this game

I really feel like the main theme of the game is hiding your real emotions because of the smiley faces all over. I also believe that each world fits into this nicely like the first world is the kid dissecting his emotions/experiences to try and better understand himself shown as putting toy pieces together. The second is about how you can't be happy all the time like the hearts literary popping themselves once their joy comes to an end and the no smiley face guy represents how you can't react to life with one emotion and how you need to match your feelings to what is happening ex. Being happy when your eyes are being pulled out of your head. The third might be I'm really guessing right now about boundaries given the black and white setting. I think the boy had some friends that he would play with in the woods but they weren't nice friends to him and one day they killed the boy's beloved dog. The boy knew that he shouldn't play with them but because he tries to keep positive about things he was to late to save his dog. The ending I think really is the nail in the coffin for me with him drawing a smiley face over his face.

I have a theory about this game. The adult you see at the end of the game is the little boy you play as. Basically the whole game is the guy tripping hard. He had a bad childhood and he wants "to be a child again" (he probably just wants the safety and innocence that comes with being a child) So that's why everything is cute at first appearance but turns gross and scary (probably the drugs that makes his bad experiences a 1000 times worse) also he imagines getting the ball, rabbit and dog back cause that's the only closure he wants but can never get

I feel bad for the little boy he's been through three traumatic events that led to him to grow up alone and order to find happiness through drugs

Hey SHB, Hope your doing good and that you had a scary & fun Halloween. Just wanted to say that I enjoy your content whenever you upload on your channel. Have a great week. Fr, fr, this game isn't "happy" at all with the gory stuff. 😨

Yay! A game from my country czech republic and studio Amanita Design! Such a good feeling to see someone with 1M subs from another country play it!

SHB, innocently after watching a massive rabbit almost eat his character : "Obviously he'll just trip over those other rabbits! Nothing else! Just trip!"

This is such a cheerful game 🙂

Chuchel has changed a lot since the last time I played.

This is really entertaining I absolutely love all of your content SuperHorrorBro,thanks for being one of many inspirations for me and everyone else,hope you and everyone else is having a fantastic day

As someone who experiences nightmares every other night on a frequent basis, and dealing with severe trauma from childhood - a lot of this game struck such a strong cord with me. Especially as the young child hums to them self when seemingly scared or disturbed. I do that even as a year away from a legal adult

Was hoping to see you play this, I’m looking forward to a theory video about this. I feel like it’s got a lot of potential symbolism and secret stuff to uncover, and I feel like you’re the perfect guy to cover it

Idk why but your playthroughs are somewhat comforting and wholesome (although the games are scary). I’ve been through a lot of very stressful situations for the past month (and months to come) and you’re videos helps me get through it, thank you so much for posting i love your videos!

Nice SHB! Judging by the title, it’s gonna be a dark one! Hoping to play this one too

5:36 Did he just call hopscotch squares a "Microphone taped to the wall"?

5:34 I think that’s hop scotch. A kids game where you hop in these numbered squares on the floor in order from 1 to 10.

Man it's so cool seeing you play this game! It's so weird and unsettling in a more surreal sense, especially compared to some of the previous works done by these devs Wondering if you'll do an analysis on this game or not, there's certainly a lot to work with in it!

I don't think the boy is dead. The ending shows us that he's still alive, but he's a bit older. I think he might've had a psychotic breakdown when he was a kid (from the barbaric abuse of the bullies to losing his toys, and the (possible) death of his beloved dog) that lead to him being committed to a psych ward. Him going to sleep makes him relive the trauma that he experienced in his childhood, and judging by the ending, is something that he can't escape from because human beings need sleep to function. But to him, sleep locks him in this parvoviral hell loop. Kinda sad.

22:35 ‘have I completed the game?’ 1 hour later:beats game

The art style really reminded me of Chuchel. Amanita Design has a really fun and unique art style, I'm glad they branched into horror games now!

"This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen" *Takes a screenshot*

Early

It’s like little nightmares but a lot more nightmare fuel.

Child : sees 1000,00000 creepy things * Child : scared * Child : sees ball * Child : forget everything I saw! , it’s just a nightmare! Brain : Hey look it’s the ball. Child : ok let’s get the ball :]

Theory : This guy is an adult tripping balls about his childhood trauma, and the drugs make him see it as if in the end everything was okay and just a bad dream-

"Now we've got lots of balls!" How you managed to say that without so much as a nose heave I will never know

Would love to see a theory video from you on this game. Your interpretation is close but not quite their, you see this game is all about the boy using drugs to cope with his trauma. When it glitches to reality and his head is melting, his head isn’t actually melting but it’s symbolism on how drugs destroy your brain. The ending with the little kid trapped in his own mind symbolizes how drugs traps your true self while your forced to always wear a smile. The smiley face entity could also be seen as a the influence of drugs personified, the forced smile and how he laughs at the boy in each memory and the entity is the one that keeps this hallucination real to him.

This is exactly like another game I know called bulb-boy. It's another clicker where you play as a cute little boy with a lightbulb for a head and monsters take over his mansion. You have to save his grandpa lightbulb and his flying dog and some of the monsters are HORRIFYING. It's extremely underated

Here is a theory that explains the ending: I guess the ending means that the kid is actually an adult that has consumed drugs that make him live in a fantasy world where he thinks he is happy while in reality he is making damage to himself. That’s why there are happy elements like toys that transform into monsters. He drugs himself because of the traumas that he had as a child, specially the loss of his dog, and the ending is him in reality and his true him being trapped behind a fake smiley face, representing how drugs work. I think this is the most popular or credible theory of the game, I think it’s a cool message.

This game really interests me, Im glad you’re playing it! I’d definitely like a theory video on this game, when you have the time.

You just made my whole day been stressed out lately thanks for being you

this game is an acid trip

51:36 I think this may represent one if the kid's foster parents: the kid was bullied by foster siblings who had an abusive father who ended up burned alive during a campfire.

Who here is kinda expecting a theory video sometime later?

5:39 Isn't that hopscotch? I know it's a tiny thing. But tiny things +bug me.+ 7:19 Aww, it's not horrible, he's *h a p p y!*

I'm certain that his parents wanted him to have good dreams, so they made a dream catcher and placed it above him near the light. The dream catcher did grant him happiness in some cases but the dream catcher caught nightmarish portions of dreams and made a sort of hybrid. Throughout the game we see 3 items. A ball, bunny, and his dog. He dreams about them because it is the things that brings him the most joy but as I previously said his dreams were twisted and we were forced to find them. I am guessing the kid goes through these dreams daily and is terrified of them which is why at the end he begs for help but reassures himself by having fun with the mirror. Thats my theory. Edit: analyzed some scenes. I also believe that he still has these nightmares even as an adult and to cope he uses drugs to dull it. He ends up ODing and dying.

I think I'm getting delusional Was there a quick gameplay like a few months ago/a year ago? Cuz I swear I saw someone played this game before

“maybe he trips over them because theyre chonky?” *actually eats them* “well thats ⏃ bit more morbid than ⟟ expected. well anyway”

Is this game done by the Chuchel devs? It looks like a much darker version. I believe they left the end ambiguous on purpose. First, you wake up, implying it was a dream. 2nd you see yourself dead. 3rd your breaking the fourth wall by breathing on the computer screen and drawing on it implying that it's all just a game. Which one? You choose. Also, the open nature of the game leads to multiple interpretations depending on your experiences. You see it as a cautionary tale against bullying if you were bullied. You think it's about depression or anxiety if you have suffered from either. You thinks it's about Purgatory or the afterlife if you lean or have been taught religiously. This is one of the reasons I liked this game so much. Well done! and thanks SHB for playing it.

Mike after finishing game: *intensively writes script*

I noticed in chapter 2 that every time we solved the puzzle, the bell turned from sad to happy

I love @ 49:48 "Probably weirdest things I've seen..." (screenshot sound)

51:22 actually, it's more of a shashlik. It would be a kebab if the gremlins were ripped up to pieces and sticked up into a cylindrical shape.

I can't remember where but Mike took a random screenshot at one point. Also once again asking him to check out "I'm on Observation Duty."

Ngl after finishing, It feels like he went through either the FINAL RECOLLECTION, you know the final surge of clarity and comprehension before death or the final terror, it's hard to say. If he went through the Final Terror it's that last nightmare you have before you go numb, grow out of, or basically use prescriptions or recreational drugs to deal with. When those "hoodlums" were frolicking in the fields with ease like if it's their stomping grounds it feels like he was a outsider to the bully culture before partaking in it shown with the kid who got eaten alive which is a metaphor for a novice/new kid, which could be newer than him or in the same recent addition like him, being absolutely humiliated and discarded. He took some part it in showing he was in the crowd as they ruined the poor fellow and probably half assing bullying too in a attempt not to look weak. The last bully who got startled probably meant he was found out as not truly being with the mean kids shunning him. The dog is concerning, it could be a stray/wild he loved like his own. They both were absolute pals with fantastic chemistry, but the bullies in a attempt to figure out if he's part of the in-group probably jumped it to see his loyalty and shown he was more loyal to the dog and not them, so they attacked him to until he went with them before the new kid incident. The treeline is weird, to me it speaks with the passing of time, I felt like he searched for the dog in either a desperate attempt to reconcile, or him depressingly lying to himself the dog is still out there just one step ahead of him about to be found. For the Final Terror it's him in a bender of a alcohol or drug variety, having one last twisted memory in his haze coming to a realization he's too numb or grown over to care about. For the Final Memory it's him on his "death bed", he's currently ODing remembering happier times before the sweet goodnight.

Iam so glad that you played this, Happy Game is from a Czech developer studio and when you play it, more people can see the work of a small indie studio. Iam kinda proud whenever they make a new game.