Afterparty is a hilarious exploration of the afterlife and binge drinking

Throughout Afterparty, there’s an ongoing mystery around the game’s pair of leads. They’ve died, but why have they gone to Hell? Surrounded by serial killers, bigoted robbers, and people who insisted on using only the express checkout lanes in grocery stores, the answer could be anything. Or perhaps, as Satan suggests, it’s far simpler: What did you do to deserve anything else?

Moral fiber and the overarching question of “how good is good enough?” are having a moment in pop culture. While a show like The Good Place is not the first to examine the afterlife, it does so with a thoroughly modern tone that acts as a mirror for being a good person in our complicated times. Afterparty, developer Night School Studio’s latest game, exists in...

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