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What Comes After

Meta Quest 2, SteamVR • 2020

Should you play it?

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.

What works

  • Heartfelt and emotional story
  • Thought-provoking themes on life and death
  • Simple and charming art style
  • Soothing soundtrack
  • Accessible gameplay suitable for all players

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short playtime
  • Minimal gameplay mechanics
  • Limited replayability
  • Some dialogue feels surface-level
  • Achievements had minor bugs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • A Space For The Unbound - Prologue

  • Bear's Restaurant

  • Long Dream

  • Koi Musubi

  • The Little UNI

  • Perfect Gold - Yuri Visual Novel

More experimental

Games that feels like What Comes After but with more room to experiment and tinker

  • Love Thyself - A Horatio Story

  • A Story Beside

  • Margo

  • Sumire

  • 他人世界末 On-looker

  • Starlight Vega

More expressive

Games that feels like What Comes After but with more self-expression and customization

  • //TODO: today

  • 咕啾！文鸟恋爱物语 Love Story of Sparrow

  • A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

  • Leila

  • Goodnight Universe

  • Refind Self: The Personality Test Game

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

Last update: 21/08/2026