Explore Happy Wheels, a game where you control wheelchair characters navigating level designs and reaching the finish line while enduring exaggerated damage from hazards.
Happy Wheels is a ragdoll physics-based platform browser game developed and published by Fancy Force. It was created by Jim Bonacci in 2010 and has since gained massive popularity on YouTube and other streaming platforms.
In Happy Wheels, players control various characters in wheelchairs, bikes, or other vehicles as they attempt to navigate imaginative user-generated levels of increasing difficulty. The goal is to reach the level's finish line without dying or becoming incapacitated. However, each level features numerous hazards, booby traps, and dangerous terrain specifically designed to damage the player's character. When damage occurs, the ragdoll physics exaggerate and exaggerate the effects, often resulting in comically extreme mutilation or death.
Due to the intentionally unforgiving gameplay, characters suffer frequent and brutal injuries like having limbs twisted or ripped off or being crushed, impaled, or liquefied. This over-the-top violence and dark comedy are a big part of the game's appeal. The characters also have funny vocal reactions when injured or upon completing a level. Players will often have to restart many times in order to learn a level's layout and the proper path or techniques for passing all its hazards. The game's huge popularity has inspired thousands of user-generated levels of widely varying designs, themes, and difficulty.
While Happy Wheels originated as a browser game, mobile app versions have also been created for iOS and Android devices. The game remains free-to-play and supported by ads, with no paid upgrades or in-app purchases available. This simplicity combined with its addictive challenge, ragdoll physics, irreverent humor, and growing user-created content library has earned Happy Wheels a cult-like following.