Afterparty news & patch notes

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/c2de8fa1a8c50423bdc56561c2105254ab0d8212.gif Escape Hell with your best bud – in six languages. #TranslateAfterparty has been trending on Bicker for months and we got tired of muting accounts. So with this new patch, you're getting subtitles in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian. While we appreciate some of your DMs, some of them are NOT even appropriate for demons. Seriously. Thanks for playing or Danke, merci, or however you express gratitude. See you in Hell. https://store.steampowered.com/app/762220/Afterparty/

Does it feel like a hellish Monday to you? Same here. We’re taking a break to play Afterparty live with our own Bryant Cannon and Claire Chen. Watch live on the Afterparty Steam page, Twitch or YouTube. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/c2de8fa1a8c50423bdc56561c2105254ab0d8212.gif

Welcome to the Afterparty

You're invited

We can't believe it's been almost a full year since we unleashed Hell on Earth with Afterparty, our ultimate night-out simulator. That seems to have gone well for Earth, so we are beyond excited to announce that we are bringing the game to Steam. Happy Spooky Season to us all! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/5cd6debc12713baa776e379618eb8da0d793de7d.jpg To celebrate, Afterparty has a launch discount of 20% off, or save even more by completing your Night School collection with this bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16322/ The Complete Night School Collection includes:

• Afterparty
• Oxenfree
• Afterparty OST
• Oxenfree OST

With your purchase, you'll pay for and get only the items that you don't already have in your steam library. So if you already own Oxenfree, this is the deepest discount you can get on Afterparty!

A Pub Crawl through Hell's Weirdest Districts

Over 30 drinks

In a game where communication is one of the player’s central abilities, we wanted to let players customize how their characters would speak. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/a84719b6f3fb6e60f43c87f826d5218bec70a56c.jpg So to aid them on their extraordinary quest, Milo and Lola are going to need a little liquid courage. To that end, we’ve created over 30 drinks to get sauced on throughout the game, each providing a different type of personality boost. Think of it like equipping a weapon, but for your words… every bar has a few different drinks that, once imbibed, give extra dialogue choices. Want to talk like a raging psycho? Order a Global Extinction. Fancy some vaudevillian flair? Grab a Great Exhibitionist. Don’t even ask what a Jeffery Bomber does.

Friends in low places

Like the best nights out, it’s about the friends you make, ditch, or piss off along the way. We’ve structured Afterparty in a way that tries to reflect those bumpy nights, so depending on who you interact with along the way, you’ll bump into a variety of folks again later in the game, many of whom may become crucial in your quest to take down Satan. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16322/

Pub games

It wouldn’t be a night on the town if you didn’t get a chance to compete in stupid games against the weirdos you meet. Beer pong, dance-offs, and shot stacking competitions will pop up when you least expect them, adding another dimension to the story. All of these design and story choices gave us the foundation to create our weird underworld. We hope you’ll join Milo and Lola on their quest to escape Hell, or at least throw a few back with the dead. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/c2de8fa1a8c50423bdc56561c2105254ab0d8212.gif

This Isn't Your Mother's Monster Mash

Come for the hellish party tunes, stay to carry out the demonic orders played subliminally by the devil himself! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432530/Afterparty_OST/ SCNTFC's original soundtrack for Afterparty features sick beats, gregorian chants, demonic screams, and the moans of the damned. It's also in the bundle! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16322/

Have a Hell of a Time

We’re genuinely very excited to finally bring our follow-up to Oxenfree to you demons and ghosts, just in time for our favorite holiday. If you love the spooky season as much as we do, this bundle is for you <3 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16322/

First, the good news: Afterparty is coming to Steam on October 22! Now the not-so-great news: you’ve died and are about to burn in Hell. Instead of getting cozy with the concept of being eternally flayed, you must elbow your way into Satan’s house party and convince him to grant you re-entry to Earth. But (lucky for you?) the only way he’ll consider it is if you can outdrink him. That’s the premise of Afterparty, our next original game after Oxenfree. https://store.steampowered.com/app/762220/Afterparty/ We wanted to let players inhabit their own darkly comedic adventure--like Superbad, but as a playable bender through Hell’s weirdest districts. To that end, here are the key creative pillars we focused on while making Afterparty.

Playing as two besties

First, it was imperative to our crew that you embody not one, but two characters via Afterparty’s leads, Milo and Lola. Over the course of your night in Hell, you’ll explore the peaks and valleys of long-term friendship in ways that haven’t been seen in games before. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/0c800c0a34cff71ae184051fdc38391e225a6d0d.gif Playing as a duo let our writers and designers explore not only the upside of long term friendship, but the pitfalls of knowing too much about each other. The game will pay close attention to how you shape your Milo and Lola; who you relate to more, whose plans you follow through with, and ultimately how you navigate the benefits and compromises of their friendship. By the end of the game, their relationship will be completely formed by your choices.

A new vision of Hell’s denizens

Afterparty’s version of the afterlife draws from all religions, but is firmly rooted in reality. It was a blast developing our own set of rules, deviating from the familiar pitchforks and fire in most interpretations of Hell. Our dead people and demons have jobs, families, and argue over the good parking spot like the rest of us. But they also throw Death Day parties for serial killers. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/1cbc4fd7a003e12dfdafaceafb502896a41461c5.gif

An unpredictably wild night

Whereas our last game, Oxenfree, had a unifying dilemma that the whole cast was trying to overcome, we wanted to make the situations in Afterparty reflect a much larger cast with their own unique problems. Milo and Lola just happen to stumble through these moments on their own journey, and the game is structured to feel more like a binge-worthy streaming TV series filled with an unpredictable cast. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/3ca19ece18f90dcf01f033ad08cf2260153dd300.gif Win over the demonic band manager who brokers deals in exchange for souls. Dance for the EDM DJ in the middle of the throbbing two-story pile of limbs. Start a fight during the reunion of a grown man with the demon that possessed his toys when he was a kid. Every bar or street corner can lead to another set of strange characters who can help Milo and Lola on their greater journey. https://store.steampowered.com/app/762220/Afterparty/ If going out to bars and socializing (albeit with digital demons) sounds better than what you've got going on these days, then we invite you to: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/ad0125567eb3bbe2274ba2446781d553a53659bf.gif Love, The Night School Team

Hi! How are you doing? Are you doing okay? How many wellness apps have you deleted and redownloaded in the last two weeks? Do you currently have another tab open to a video explaining how to teach World War II to a nine-year old? Are you growing your own toilet paper? Well better get on it! But before you go over to your neighbor’s house to steal his bleach, I have some actual, verifiable good news! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/99c49cb114e285e2cdf978b6bb74bef7ac911334.gif Halloween is around the corner! And in these last waning months, weeks, days and minutes of having a still somewhat functioning civilization, what better way to rest your weary soul than to focus on the comparatively cheerful horrors of Halloween. Costumed children skipping down the street! Raucous parties raging till dawn! Surprise office shindigs to delight young temps! None of that will be happening this year, no, but Afterparty is coming to Steam on October 22, just in time to fuel all of your spooky cravings in lieu of being able to actually go outside and see other human beings. https://store.steampowered.com/app/762220/Afterparty/ We’re genuinely very excited to finally bring our follow-up to Oxenfree out to you ghouls, a devilish adventure with Milo and Lola, two college friends who find themselves trapped in Hell. I know. I’m jealous, too. But to them, this is a bad thing! They want to get back to Earth, back to their lives, and, thankfully for them, there's a demonic loophole: while prowling the weird streets of Hell’s surrealist cities, if they can find and outdrink Satan himself, the Prince of Lies will return them to their placid existence. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/68c0101f24a8c0ee204422637b3882958c8980e1.gif You'll control both Milo and Lola through a phantasmagorical bar crawl positively brimming with fiendish characters you can befriend and/or torture. You'll drink from over 30 bizarre concoctions that will change the two friends' personalities, allowing you to personalize their crazy night out. You'll survive awkward bar talk, help wayward souls, play beer pong with demons, and try not to throw up even though it would probably just make you feel a whole lot better. Won’t you help Milo and Lola escape eternal torment? If you bring your laptop into bed, you don’t even have to get up! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32404645/1d3beb99c037101cd59b6bcd9c09c71fd266aef0.gif Okay. That’s it. Get some rest. Close your eyes. Add Afterparty to your Wish List. Picture a calm, blue ocean. And vote. Thanks. - Adam and Night School Studio https://store.steampowered.com/app/762220/Afterparty/