Action · August 13, 2018

Death’s Gambit: Afterlife (2018)

trophy43 achievementsextension2 DLClocal_offer-55% current discountgroup100k–1M ownersrecommend4.2k recommendations
The promise of immortality lies at the heart of Siradon. As Death's right hand, challenge the undying guardians of the realm and endure the eternal struggle to purge their souls. Death's Gambit: Afterlife is the new and expanded edition of the original hardcore 2D RPG action platformer. Master the precise combat, utilizing a wide variety of weapons and abilities to confront the horrors that lurk within Siradon. Explore a mysterious and unforgiving world and uncover the true price of immortality. Afterlife offers players a wealth of new content to experience on top of the original game, including 10 new levels, over 30 weapons, 5 new bosses, mechanical overhauls, and more. Your choices will affect the epic finale to Sorun’s tale. Expansive World – Travel across a massive world of over 20 beautifully rendered levels. Meet quirky characters from all walks of life and uncover their secrets. Metroidvania – Unlock unique movement and combat upgrades that open and expand the world. Character Classes – Choose from 7 playable classes, pick from over 100 talents in the skill tree, and multi-class to tailor the combat style to your preference. Incredible Bosses – Hunt 20 towering monsters and other creatures of legend. Each boss is a test of skill, requiring unique strategies to defeat. Heroic Mode – Defeated bosses experience a second wind in an exponentially harder heroic mode accessible immediately after defeating them. Give yourself an all new challenge and master their new abilities. Non-Linear Exploration – Explore levels and bosses in a non-linear order, discover side areas with more secrets to unravel and enemies to purge. Character Customization – Outfit your character with over 30 weapons including bows, scythes, longswords, halberds and more. Customize how you wield them with a plethora of abilities and upgrades. Alternate Endings – Determine Sorun’s fate as you progress through the story by achieving certain goals and making key decisions along the way. Crafting – Scavenge, hunt and dismantle items you find throughout the world to create new and useful equipment for your struggle through Siradon. Evocative Score – Experience an intricately crafted score that sets the tone for Death's Gambit: Afterlife’s world with nearly 3 hours of evocative music composed by Kyle Hnedak. New Game Plus – Complete Afterlife to unlock New Game+ in brackets of three that allow you to set your own difficulty. Endure Sorun’s journey all over again with new enemy variants and modifiers unique to New Game+.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Souls-like · 280
  • Metroidvania · 178
  • RPG · 159
  • Pixel Graphics · 159
  • Dark Fantasy · 142
  • Action · 138
  • 2D · 128
  • Indie · 125
  • Adventure · 113
  • Platformer · 84
  • Difficult · 78
  • Action RPG · 76
  • Singleplayer · 58
  • Side Scroller · 43
  • Atmospheric · 40

Peer Action titles

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume5.3k Steam reviewsTop 58% in Action
Positive rating82% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 64%
Metacritic81/100Genre average 77 — top 36% of Action titles
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 45% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Russian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Turkish volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Turkish

Reception Metrics

Steam community

82%Mostly Positive · 5.3k reviews

4.3k positive · 949 negative

Metacritic

81/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

4.2k

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateAug 13, 2018
DeveloperWhite Rabbit
PublisherSerenity Forge
Base price$8.99 -55%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

Achievements

43

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

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