Afterlife
- Afterlife presents the last word in sims – literally.
- In this hilarious and challenging world-building approach game, players build the heaven and hell of an alien world and help wayward “souls” to their final resting places.
- s souls start to migrate, players manage the souls’ arrival by zoning and developing areas for the seven deadly sins and their respective virtues.
- More than 250 richly detailed tiles and structures. Grandest scope of any simulation game, tracking literally billions of characters.
Product Description
Welcome to Afterlife, the world-building simulation that lets you make the hereafter in the here and now. Possessed of an unearthly sense of humor, it all starts in a god-knows-where galaxy. As a regional spiritual director your task, given to you by the Powers That Be, is to develop two prime planes of “unreal estate” – heaven and hell – simultaneously. Keep billions of souls pleased by giving them the rewards and punishments they deserve.
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LucasArts is well known for being a gaming pioneer and with this game they explored a very rarely tread path. Afterlife is one of the most well engineered “god sims” ever crafted (pun intended)! There is not one flaw to this game: brilliant music, splendid sound effects, user friendly interface, cartoonish yet gorgeous graphics and a extremely humorous plot all combine to make this game a must have for sim fans!
The thought is unadorned: the “Powers That Be” have positioned you, the “DemiUrge”, in charge of a distant planet’s newly minted Afterlife. You start out at “Zero Year” which is when your planet’s people (called “EMBOs”) have just achieved sentience and with it “SOULs” worthy of being collected. When its time, these SOULs will seek out the Afterlife at which point you must grant them with the appropriate “just desserts” they so very need! You have a lot of leeway in how to handle this. The most vital factor to be taken into account is a mortal’s beliefs which, of course, can be influenced by you but only indirectly by “inspiring” an EMBO planetside to spread the word of no matter what way of life you prepare. Want them to believe in Heaven but not Hell? No conundrum. Say you want them to believe in reincarnation? Go ahead. Got an urge to turn them all into beatnik hippies who fall victim to the Sin Of Lust but are followers of the Virtue Of Peace. Go nuts.
The mortals start out as a release tribe who will go forth and multiply all the while becoming ever more civilized. They develop technology over time which will increase their lifespan and population density but will also enable them to kill each other more effectively. At first this is no conundrum but eventually, with the development of Nuclear Weapons and Gravity Manipulation, the threat of Judgment Day becomes very possible.
Why is that a conundrum? Well, you are payed by The Powers That Be for every SOUL collected and the amount earned is affected by how effciently that SOUL is handled (how excellent your Afterlife is being managed). In order to “not tempt the gods”, your venture as the DemiUrge must be profitable. If the mortals nuke each other into your realm then that means there will be no future SOULs which means you have no new income and that will mean you get a firing by The Powers That Be on a “cosmic” scale!
The game’s ever present religious nature is VERY generic! No specific group is EVER refered to and various items have been borrowed from all the major religions as well as pop culture. The game has been sanitized for most appeal with minimum offense and while some might take issue with that, the entire tongue in cheek aspect of everything renders this a moot point. Some origins of various materials are simple enough to spot but everything has been designed to work together and not stand out.
No matter what your beliefs, the game is worth buying! Why LucasArts hasn’t re-released it or made a sequel is beyond my mortal understanding. Indeed, your advisors, the Angel Aria Goodhalo and the Demon Jasper Wormwood, are a excellent enough comdey dou to be on TV! For you otaku out there, I’d say they’re a exact Manzai Team!
Rating: 5 / 5