The Happy Hereafter
Fair · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 256 MB, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.51. That was June 2017. 55 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, shapez 2 - Factory ($29.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats The Howler (free, scores 47).
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The Magic Alter is almost always bugged. I have made 5 games, still bugged and can't get past it. Edit: After around 10 restarts, finally got past it. It is one of the intro quests, and incredibly bugged. Entire runs can just be stops because the alter doesn't activate. Borderline non existent story, character glitching across the world, no map, and horrid key mapping. Little to no replay ability, no actual resource...
It could have been a nice cosy game, but instead it is a slow game where you have to wait for the next quest before you can move forward, because if you do move forward independently, when you eventually get a quest for something you have already researched, you won't be able to finish the quest and therefore will be stuck and will have to restart the game.
The Happy Hereafter has cute graphics and kind of fun for a while. I couldn't get totally get into it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Happy Hereafter scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306200/the-happy-hereafterThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 22.
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