What Comes After

What Comes After

Fair · Narrative · 2020

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.1h
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
90% positive
It needs 4% off ($4.80) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,041 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB display memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement61% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 399 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in January 2022. It has been discounted 38 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Donut County ($12.99, scores 64).

Steam's global achievement data puts 61 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 734 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 78 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

88% start to 61% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

A short, cozy interactive fiction story about Vivi, a young woman who falls asleep on a train and finds herself among the dead on their way to the afterlife. There isn't much gameplay beyond walking and talking, but that's really all it needs. The conversations with dead people, animals, plants, and other beings create a gentle meditation on mortality, regret, memory, and the value of continuing to live. It's...
bikemanmikeRecommendedafter 1.1hJun 2026Read on Steam
Apakah lu akan datang di hari pemakamanku nanti? Ha, tentu saja tidak, kau sudah mengatakannya waktu itu
KareelMaxRecommendedafter 1.8hJun 2026Read on Steam
⭐ Steam Review for: What Comes After ⭐ ⏱️ Playtime: 109 minutes This game felt less like playing a game and more like taking a quiet journey that gave me a lot to think about. 💭 What really carries this experience is the story, the conversations, and the messages behind them. As you travel through the train, you meet all kinds of different characters, and each one has something meaningful to say. Some conversations...
YamochiichanRecommendedafter 1.8hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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What Comes After scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1421760/what-comes-after
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPikselnesia
PublisherRolling Glory Jam
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Achievements11