Sometimes you learn a game synopsis and need to blink and remind your self it’s not a high-concept steel album, as a result of blimey. Two buds trapped in hell incomes their freedom by out-drinking the satan sounds just like the sorta factor that’d have some killer riffs. Ah, effectively. Afterparty nonetheless seems bloody unimaginable. With a launch date marked for the top of subsequent month, you don’t have to attend lengthy earlier than ingesting the lord of darkness beneath the desk.
Afterparty is Night School Studio’s raucous follow-up to Oxenfree, a beautiful little journey game about hip teenagers and spooky mysterious. The younger’uns are nonetheless at it – this time, dropping lifeless and discovering themselves dealing with an eternity of torment. Christ, and I believed my commencement was garbage.
Hell does look fairly hip, thoughts, stuffed with bars and bands and boisterous horned lads. Besides the standard journey affair of chatting-up demons, you can too swig a pint to present your self enhancements or social powers. Yup, that’s what I inform myself too after I’m at a celebration and don’t know anybody. No, actually, it’s simpler to get going as soon as I’m down a can or three, trustworthy.
Himself banished to the realm of no-longer-works-for-RPS, John had a bash at Afterparty earlier this yr and located a riotously humorous and intimidatingly large narrative to discover. You received’t catch all of it in a single go, both, with bizarre hellish occasions occurring the world over in real-time.
Afterparty slams on Windows and Mac by way of the Epic Games Store for £16/$20 on October 29th.
Me? I’m hitting the pub after work, satan or no.
