What Comes After on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
What Comes After is a interactive fiction, cartoony and casual game
developed by Pikselnesia and Rolling Glory Jam
and published by Rolling Glory Jam.
Released on November 05th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Indonesian.
It has received 948 reviews of which 858 were positive and 90 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor: 2.4 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB display memory
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: Stereo
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.5
- Processor: 2.33 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB display memory
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Sound Card: Stereo
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The game would be unplayable if your SPACE bar is broken. Fortunately, my SPACE bar works. Yet in the past two hours, I had to keep hitting SPACE bar, for hundreds of times, in order to have all “Achievement Required” conversations with the 50-ish NPCs. 100% Achievement can be accomplished within 2 hours, and the game file is 2021 version - it stopped updates after the main game director, designer and writer Mohammad Fahmi (also the creator of game Coffee Talk) passed away in March 2022. The game is about listening to ghosts’ problems and helping them. In Buddhism and Hinduism, both believe in reincarnation, after life and spirits in animals and plants, so you got to talk to some subway passengers, a baby, an owl, a cat, a dog, a monkey, some mushrooms, a giraffe, and an elephant, all in the spirit world. Before you enter the spirit world, you can hear what people talking and thinking within the subway train, and topics mostly to be music, family, work, games, relationships, and of course daily chores. After you entered the spirit world, ghosts started to realize there will be no work, no money anxiety, and most importantly, nothing is unhealthy – felt like a nice place to be. Although one ghost was a bit special, and he was asking what the theological and metaphysical implications of this in the importance of humanity are. I thumb up this game because of one NPC, who mentioned that the living world is but an egg, which is an idea from one of my favourite short stories. If you haven’t heard of it before, here’s the story. The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me. And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?” “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words. “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…” “Yup,” I said. “I… I died?” “Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said. You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?” “More or less,” I said. “Are you god?” You asked. “Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.” “My kids… my wife,” you said. “What about them?” “Will they be all right?” “That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.” You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty. “Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.” “Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?” “Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.” “Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right,” “All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.” You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?” “Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.” “So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.” “Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.” I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had. “You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.” “How many times have I been reincarnated, then?” “Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.” “Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?” “Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.” “Where you come from?” You said. “Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.” “Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.” “Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.” “So what’s the point of it all?” “Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?” “Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted. I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.” “You mean mankind? You want us to mature?” “No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.” “Just me? What about everyone else?” “There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.” You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…” “All you. Different incarnations of you.” “Wait. I’m everyone!?” “Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back. “I’m every human being who ever lived?” “Or who will ever live, yes.” “I’m Abraham Lincoln?” “And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added. “I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled. “And you’re the millions he killed.” “I’m Jesus?” “And you’re everyone who followed him.” You fell silent. “Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.” You thought for a long time. “Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?” “Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.” “Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?” “No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.” “So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…” “An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.” And I sent you on your way.
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Ouufff, what an intense experience. In case you need a good reminder how amazing it is to be alive and how precious and short our time on this planet and with our loved ones is - play this short visual novel! Very thought provoking conversations with ghosts. Some conversations with ghosts are more than just sad or depressing...it's like someone holds a mirror infront of your face. Showing you the many ugly ways some humans waste their lifes or the ones from other living beings. The story from the dog who lost his human (a homeless person) broke my heart and ofc the Kitty who was looking for food for her Kittens...and the circus elephant... The cartoony art is very pleasant to watch and the music is calm, without disrupting the athmosperic experience to much. From a gameplay perspective, all you do is simply move through a train and talk with passengers - that's it. PS: Once you know HOW bad a "bad ending achievement" can be...it made me cry like a baby. T_T My rating 8/10
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I really imagine this game as an equivalent of reading a really good book. Forget about complex gameplay mechanics. Here everything is about visuals and story and it really make you think with each character you talk to. I am very happy I purchased this game, it is a beautiful experience.
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What a wonderful experience. Fahmi was truly a gift to the world and I'm glad he created these beautiful stories for us. For such a small, limited experience this has had such a lasting impact and I expect it to last ever longer.
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This side-scrolling visual novel is a short but sweet reminder that life is worth living - even when it doesn't seem to be. The conversations are clearly heartfelt, and it's obvious that the dev team has dealt with a number of difficult situations and managed to come out with a greater appreciation for life and the world around us. If you are going through a difficult time right now, or just need a reminder that life is a gift, please give this game a chance.
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Developer
Pikselnesia,
Rolling Glory Jam
Publisher
Rolling Glory Jam
Release
05 Nov 2020
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