Explore the mean streets of Hell as two dead best friends
It’s been three years since Night School Studio released its bewitching coming of-age debut Oxenfree. Its next game, Afterparty, looks even stranger and more surreal. We meet Lola and Milo, two recently deceased best friends who wind up in Hell. Their only chance of escape? Beating the Devil and his horde of demons in a drinking contest.
Yes, you read that right. Satan has a taste for booze, and demons like to party just as much as teenagers do. It sounds like Disneyland for burnouts, where lurid cocktails replace rainbows and monsters prowl the streets instead of cute animals. Fitting considering the inspiration that had been brewing for a number of months before development began.
“The core concept came from a series of conversations that Adam [Afterparty and Oxenfree writer] and I had while walking around a massive cemetery across the street from our office,” says Sean Krankel, co-founder of Night School Studio. “It’s where Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, Carrie Fisher, and Lucille Ball are buried, and we used to wander around the grounds to get our creative gears going. Weird, I know.”
This story is from the June 2019 edition of PC Gamer US Edition.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the June 2019 edition of PC Gamer US Edition.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
PHANTOM PAIN
The unseen side of the occult in PHASMOPHOBIA
ALMA MATER
Horror is a family affair in FEAR
OFF PUTTING
Lee Carvallo's PUTTING CHALLENGE 2: another great Simpsons fan game
BEST BEHAVIOR
Donkey Crew's lead gameplay developer, SERGII GREBEN, on programming AI for NPCs
THE GOD FACTORY
A group of players built a record-breaking plant
GRIM FANDANGO
Death is a slave to the city in LucasArts' last great adventure.
GET STARTED IN HELLDIVERS 2
Take to the stars and fight for managed democracy.
OLD WORLD BLUES
The beautiful HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION struggles to move on
LEVEL ZERO: EXTRACTION
Tarkov meets Alien in this terrifying extraction shooter
EIYUDEN CHRONICLE: HUNDRED HEROES
Spiritual successor to Suikoden promises an grand adventure