Afterlife Empire
Hey, you just died. But don’t worry! All the major religions were wrong! Instead of ascending to a new plane of existence, you are now self-employed in the Afterlife with your own haunted house to run. Keep people just scared enough to keep believing in you, but not enough to alert the local authorities and you’ll be able to live forever and maybe get your own reality show.
Afterlife Empire was designed and written by Danielle Maiorino, created by Autobotika, published by The Fine Young Capitalists and funded by the gaming community. Enjoy a game with a diverse cast of all different races, religion and creeds funded by Gamergate and /v/
Profits from the game will be given to charity to prevent colon cancer, provide scholarship and awards to up and coming game developers and other projects that show how amazing the gaming community can be.
So stay awhile and create your own Afterlife Empire and see how amazing Gamers and the gaming community can be.
This game was developed with the help of Jeff Preyra and his company Game Nation Inc.
Game Discussion
Steam User 172
Fun little sandbox to play in. It has a bit of a mobile feel to it, but seems to work very well with no notable bugs. Didn't notice any graphical issues, and the display scales well just by dragging the window to be larger.
Amusing humor in the tutorial writing/explanations of new scares earned as you go. From what I have played so far, it feels easy to make mistakes and get way too ahead of yourself/overwhelmed, but that's what learning is for.
Only real complaint is a lack of tooltips explaining exactly what effect different "awareness" props have.
Steam User 235
More Simcity Social than Theme Hospital, it's a good paced haunted house puzzle game. Playing without any technical failures on a mid-to-low level PC with outdated graphics card.
Steam User 49
Not bad.
The drama surrounding its development aside, five bucks is a great price for what you get.
It looks pretty good, a few technical hiccups, but nothing major so far.
-sometimes traps trigger through walls
-the screen scrolls when mousing over buttons on the right. A bit annoying.
-lack of info on what all the icons mean/what they do
? can you rotate items?
+nice art
+fast paced
+funny text
+large amount of characters
+/? mod support seems interesting if people are willing.
All in all, an innocent, simple game that somehow set the internet on fire.
I haven't seen Vivian yet, but I'm sure she's great.
Steam User 120
It has a lot of potential, but definitely could use some tweaking.
Tweaks I'd like to see:
Reduced cooldown time between scare.
Reducing scare meter take away.
Increase scare items pay out.
Reduce scare cost.
I got into the cycle of only being able to scare someone and it would just get give me back what I just lost.
Steam User 17
I enjoy Afterlife Empire. It's a cute management-style game with the unique idea of managing your own haunted house. It took me around half an hour to fully understand the controls, status bars, and how to properly keep my house running, but once I understood it all it was a blast! There are a few minor bugs that still need to be ironed out, but for $5, I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a neat little game to pass the time with. The profits go to charity too!
Steam User 33
I have played about 3 hours on the beta for Afterlife Empire, and just over an hour on the steam release now. I really want to say that this is a solid game. While it does have it's flaws, it offers fun gameplay and hours of enjoyment at a very reasonable price.
Pros: A solid sim/strat game that offers good replayability. The audio is decent but not amazing. The graphics are the same. The graphics feel more like they were made for a tablet/mobile phone game than a straight out PC release. But the game runs very smoothly. The only bugs I encountered were during the tutorial. The gameplay is more casual than most of the Theme games, or Sim games, but that actually helps to work in it's favor imo. I could play for 20-30 minutes and feel I accomplished something, or I could play for an hour or more. This is a game that I will recommend to my friends who like sim/strat type games or who like mobile/casual games. For the price it is a serious buy.
Cons: The few bugs I did see were during the tutorial. I could not click on objectives, and had to escape out of the tutorial during the beta (so these bugs MAY be fixed now). This made it harder to get into the game at first. The graphics, for a PC game, could be better. For my taste I would enjoy more RPG elements, i.e. levelups, or stats... but that is my own personal taste.
Warning!: There is some controversy surrounding this game because of the #GamerGate situation. I say forget that crap and give the game a try yourself. For the $5 pricetag you get a lot more out of it then most games that are 15-20 bucks on release. I have enjoyed my time playing this game and I hope you will as well.
Steam User 22
Very decent game in the vein of RollercoasterTycoon/RestaurantCity. If you enjoy casual games that get harder as it progresses then you'll like this game. It has it's bugs but nothing game breaking. Afterlife Empire captures everything that is addictive about facebook games back in the day without the waiting and microtransactions. Looking foward for some updates.
You kill one person and everyone loses the minds and sends the bulldozers.