Developer: Night School Games
Steam Deck Compatibility?: Verified
Rrp: £15.49 (Gog.com and Steam) £15.99 (Epic)
Every so often you find a game that is a bit different. Maybe it’s the subject matter, or the setting the game occurs in, perhaps the control system does something unique, sometimes its simply a set of game genres that blend together in a strange yet compelling way. In Afterparty’s case it’s the first two, sure there are several games that are set in hell or at least have a hell analogue but I can guarantee that this version of hell is utterly unique to this game. As for the subject matter… I don’t want to spoil it but it probably isn’t what you think it would be.
You play as Milo and Lola a pair of friends who recently graduated college and then both died and somehow ended up in hell. Nether of them knows how they died or why they ended up in hell but they intend to get out. Well, as fate would have it, it turns out that the demons of hell down tools at the end of the day like we humans, and it just happens that Lola and Milo turned up just as it became time to clock out for the day. And what does a demon do once they finish work? Drink of course! Turns out all of hell enjoy a good drinking session, even Satan himself. In fact, it seems that if you can beat Satan at a drinking game you can be set free from hell and return to Earth.
Each drink in the game has a different affect, adding extra options in dialogue (though not all dialogue). Some of the drinks make you more confident, others flirty and some cause you to speak like a vaudevillian performer or a pirate.
This game was fun, and a lot more heavy than I was expecting. I thought it would be a silly game about drinking in hell and it turns out I was given a lesson in morality, mortality and self determinism. Oh, and drinking.
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