After Us Review (PC) - Gaming with Joy

After us is great looking action platformer set in a surrealistic and apocalyptic world and also made by the same developer that created Arise: A Simple Story, a game that I love and has a special place in my heart. So you can imagine I was really looking forward to this game, but is it as good or maybe even better than their previous game? I'm sad to say this one really disappointed me, I appreciate it when games convey a message in a subtle way, but After Us is so in your face that it really missed the mark in my opinion and I was so put off by this that I was barely emotionally invested by the narrative to be honest.

PLAY IT OR SKIP IT? Play it! After Us is a narrative-driven adventure game with beautiful visuals that explores a strange, abstract world of decay and death. If you’ve played Sky: Children of the Light, After Us will feel pretty familiar, but it offers a more surreal and abstract experience. TIME PLAYED I played After Us for four hours. I managed to get decently far, finding every dog constellation spirit in the first major area as well as the dog vessel itself. I got lost exploring a couple of times along the way, but I’m currently traversing across the world and making my way through the second area.