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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!

Release DateJun 5, 2014
Price$ 3.99  Bottom 30%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)78.2% (mostly positive) / 78.6%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)73.5% / 73.9%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)386  Top 20% / 407  Top 25%
Curators11 reviews
Median Play Time6.1 hours  Top 25%
Play Time per Dollar1.5 hour  Top 15%
Followers502 
Owners± 113.9K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 56.9K  Top 15%
Gross Revenue ($)± 50.1K  Top 30%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Happy Hereafter steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows The Happy Hereafter's Steam rating and reviews between June 2014 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 90% (June 2014) to 75.4% (May 2017).

The 407 reviews Top 20% suggest that The Happy Hereafter might be a reasonable indie success. The October 2014 peak suggests that there was a major update or discount.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Happy Hereafter and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows The Happy Hereafter's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (53%), followed by Russian (14%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 22 different languages represented. The game is translated in 6 languages. Considering that, unless the game is text-heavy, adding translations is not a lot of work compared to making a game, it is often a good idea to translate the game in many languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Happy Hereafter percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in The Happy Hereafter, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. The time in game is acceptable, with 10 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is similar to the median for positive reviews, hinting that there is no significant difference in the player's experience and that is more a question of personal taste.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • well done visuals
  • well done audio
  • plenty of artifacts to collect
  • quests unlock new building plans
  • trading cards to collect
  • game enjoyable
  • replay value for the game is low
  • slow paced gameplay
  • monotone/repetitive
  • workers need to be manually brought to refill happiness meter
  • can't scroll screen with right mouse button

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's score of 78.2% should be considered while evaluating them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of The Happy Hereafter's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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