Afterparty is another good game from Night School Studios, While I liked the themes, art style, music, and story of the game I wasn't as interested with Afterparty as I was with Oxenfree. I think the overall story of Oxenfree was just better and the characters and gameplay were also more interesting. The story of Milo and Lola is good as two socially awkward friends graduate from university to find out they actually died 10 minutes before and now have to get approval from Satan's friends to compete in a drinking game to win being unalived is good and keeps the game moving forward and never backward. The mystery throughout the story of what other characters are up to is really neat and has a satisfying payoff depending on which route you decide to take is good.

The gameplay is like Oxenfree walking around a 2D-style world with conversations to fill in the time, The game mechanic in this game unlike Oxenfree (using a radio to find mysteries and speak with ghost) is going to a bar and drinking different cocktails from hell which will give you different conversation options which can make a few interesting decisions, But at the end I find it not as enjoyable as the radio from Oxenfree.

The art style is beautiful with a gorgeous neon rave club scene for hell is awesome and the score really doubles down on that and helps elevate that decision and it pays off very well.

Even though I did not enjoy Afterparty as much as Oxenfree I still had a good time with it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a quick cheap game. I believe I got this on a Steam sale for under $5AUD
well worth it

Reviewed on Sep 12, 2023


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