The Happy Hereafter

The Happy Hereafter

Fair · Strategy · 2014

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Sep 22.

Cost per hourS
$0.81/hr
Reviews▼
78% of 437
Genre rank
Top 15% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
4.9h
To 100%
5.5h 1.1x the story

Price and sales

Sales
55 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.51 June 2017
Sale every
39d last August 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.51. That was June 2017. 55 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 15 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, Before We Leave ($4.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51).

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What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.81/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 136 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

What players say

Boring and Buggy Casual Game What this game is: It is a casual resources management game with a sort of Halloween theme. How does it work? You have to build your village, unblocking different zones on the map in order to get some resources. You get villagers, buildings with uses (houses, circus, trading post, mines, farms, etc.), and treasures that will provide money. You need different combinations of gold...
yukioroNot recommendedafter 6.7hJun 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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...
MadAlianNot recommendedafter 5.0hDec 2024Read on Steam
The Happy Hereafter has cute graphics and kind of fun for a while. I couldn't get totally get into it.
KrazedlionRecommendedafter 4.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 256 MB, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Happy Hereafter scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Sep 22. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306200/the-happy-hereafter
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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlawar
PublisherESDigital Games
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate