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The Happy Hereafter

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

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Quick resume

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!

Global score

78/100

Genres

Casual, Strategy, Simulator

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    Pros

    • Cute and charming graphics
    • Relaxing and casual gameplay
    • Low price and good value on sale
    • Simple and accessible for beginners
    • Pleasant music and atmosphere

    Cons

    • Short game length
    • Limited player freedom and creativity
    • Some bugs and minor glitches
    • Minimal strategic depth
    • Lack of achievements and replay value

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for casual enjoyment without pressure or obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Gameplay includes waiting periods and slow resource accumulation, encouraging intermittent attention."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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      "Players accumulate upgrades and unlock new content, though progression is limited and linear."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Game is described as relaxing and soothing with cute visuals and music, suitable for casual play."

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Autonomy, Strategy, Experimenting, Competence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Creativity.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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