Happy Wheels Lands On Steam On September 21
A Flash-era browser hit that spread through Let's Play videos gets a paid storefront release with an ad-free build, which is how a generation of free web games is being moved onto Steam.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Fancy Force will release the Steam version of Happy Wheels on September 21. The side-scrolling action game puts players on vehicles such as wheelchairs, motorized shopping carts, and subway cars, and mistakes can tear off limbs or crush the character. More than 5 million user-created stages are available, and players can publish their own. The game began as a 2010 browser title, later got a JavaScript version, and has iOS and Android versions.
The Steam page has been up since early September, and Fancy Force has now put a date on it. The store listing describes the release as an ad-free version, which separates it from the browser build that carried the game through its Flash years.
The game itself has not changed shape: riders on wheelchairs, motorized shopping carts, and subway cars run gimmick courses where a bad jump can tear off a limb or crush the body. It also carries the level base it built up over the browser years, more than 5 million user-created stages, plus publishing tools for new ones.
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