After School Afterlife

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• Announcements·20 Feb 2026Official

  Artbook & OST now available!

  Hey everybody! I'm happysquared, one of the developers of After School Afterlife. Our artbook and OST are now available! The artbook is about 29 pages long and includes more information on the cultural references made in the game and some behind the scenes development stories. I also included some photos of the places that inspired us (like my great grandmother's house). The OST includes 25 tracks by Sunnydaze (our composer and my sister). They're both bundled together in a supporter's pack at a discount. Check it out if you're interested in learning more about After School Afterlife's story and supporting us.You can also check out Sunnydaze's YouTube Channel for the music of After School Afterlife and more.
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• Announcements·27 Jan 2026Official

  Achievements Added!

  We added in more achievements to After School Afterlife! You don't have to replay the game to get these achievements. Just open up the game and boot up your save file. With the exception of the post game and PSLE achievement, you should be able to get the rest retroactively.A couple achievements cannot be gained on the same save file if you have already played past a certain point and missed the NPC encounter/interaction. Also, if you'd like to support us, please drop us a review! We are currently one short from ten reviews (Steam does not count reviews from those who received steam keys for free). At ten reviews, Steam gives us an official score and that helps our game's visibility!
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• Announcements·23 Jan 2026Official

  After School Afterlife is out now!

  After School Afterlife is finally OUT! Check out our game set in a haunted Peranakan mansion that where you travel through its halls befriending hungry ghosts, appeasing unreasonable immortals, and discovering delicious foods. This has been a real passion project for us and we hope others take delight in seeing this fantasy world we made with culture ties to Singapore and SEA.Growing up in Singapore, my sister and I have always been fans of fantasy. Stories of sword and sorcery absolutely dominated our bookshelves at home. Western media was the majority of media that we consumed and I grew up believing that it was very normal in American high schools to be shoved into a locker. What local media did we consume then? Ghost stories.Local fantasy is ghost stories. One of the most popular local book series that kids would devour at school was called True Singapore Ghost Stories. Children would grow up being told stories of pontianaks and hauntings. It was this haunted childhood we had that planted the seed that After School Afterlife grew from. That, and also a desire to explore what a non-Western fantasy setting might be like. Perhaps others would also find that interesting though admittedly a lot of it was for our own interest in exploring what that could look like. During covid, my sister and I joined a game jam called GM48 (where you have to make a game in 48 hours). That was when we made the first iteration of After School Afterlife. This was five years ago.The next five years were spent with trying to work on the game while also having a full-time job. At one point, the development went into a hiatus that lasted more than a year as my sister and I also began working on another game called Rusted Moss.We've also gone through multiple programmers due to life just catching up like friends getting jobs and going back to school. Life stuff. It ended up with me finally learning programming and we also managed to loop in one of our other unemployed friends to join our tea...
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• Announcements·15 Jan 2026Official

  After School Afterlife Releasing January 23!

  After School Afterlife will be releasing on January 23!It brings us great joy to share a game filled with cultural ties to Singapore and SEA with all of you.What started as a 48 hour gamejam is now a fully completed project. The journey has been filled with ups and downs but we kept fighting to make our dream of creating a game based on our home a reality. A big thank you to everyone who has been following the development and those that have played a part in bringing After School Afterlife to life.Check out the release trailer below for a closer look at what you'll be able to play come January 23.
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• Announcements·16 Sept 2025Official

  After School Afterlife Demo Available!

  Hello everyone! Happy to announce that we're finally releasing the demo for After School Afterlife. It has taken awhile with the project being on hiatus for awhile due to Sunny and I (happysquared) working on a separate game (Rusted Moss) that saw a 2023 release with multiple updates after that delayed our full commitment. After School Afterlife has been a huge passion project of ours. We wanted to use our cultural backdrop (we're both Singaporean) to tell a fantastic tale of exploring a Peranakan mansion while encountering spooky ghosts and delicious cuisine. We seldom see our local culture serve as a setting and think there's a lot of fun South East Asian folklore to explore! We've certainly had fun introducing Singaporean culture to our non-local teammates, Hokori and Riuku. (Riuku was not a fan of irvin's fish skin...) Our family has also been enthusiastic about sending us pictures for our photo references. Hope you enjoy the sneak peak into the full game and we'd love to hear your feedback!Feedback Our family sent us so many pictures (most of them of food) that I can't include all of them here. Still, it was a nice feeling seeing how excited and supportive they all were even though they don't really play games! (I admit I was delighted to surprise my non-Singaporean teammates as to what our local ice cream sandwiches are like.)
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