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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
46 of the 77 reviews raise this.
25 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“I didn't like it at first. Hell, I even refunded it before. But after coming back to and beating it, I really enjoyed it. I got ending A the first time around, and I intend on re-revisiting the game to get ending B. The…”
20 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“+feels like handcrafted adventure (no copy paste world) with souls-elements +great exploration, many cute details and npcs +7 main classes (~7 weapon classes, magic, throwables... mixable skill trees) +extremely smooth…”
17 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“I haven't been able to leave a good review in a long time. I'm surprised. There's some issues with having to spam jump when going up between screens or else he falls back down. The map markers don't seem to work past 3…”
15 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Character moves very slow and attacks are slow. Enemies moves very fast. Controls are clunky. Nice design though.”
“Para quem está em dúvida se vale a pena comprar o jogo, a resposta é simples: sim. O jogo é muito bom, com uma história realmente fascinante. Ele te instiga a buscar todos os finais, tanto para completar a experiência…”
16 of the 77 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Man this game is boring as ♥♥♥♥. Level design is ass, levels are all short asf, bosses honestly are a complete hit or miss, some are funny other are incrediblly boring. Theres no real choice for how to build your…”
“50/50 game for me. and one of the rare games I've played over 20+ hours but couldn't bring myself to finish it. It gets ridiculously boring and very, very hard for no apparent reason. Still, not a bad game, but not a…”
“Character moves very slow and attacks are slow. Enemies moves very fast. Controls are clunky. Nice design though.”
14 of the 77 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Man this game is boring as ♥♥♥♥. Level design is ass, levels are all short asf, bosses honestly are a complete hit or miss, some are funny other are incrediblly boring. Theres no real choice for how to build your…”
“50/50 game for me. and one of the rare games I've played over 20+ hours but couldn't bring myself to finish it. It gets ridiculously boring and very, very hard for no apparent reason. Still, not a bad game, but not a…”
“+feels like handcrafted adventure (no copy paste world) with souls-elements +great exploration, many cute details and npcs +7 main classes (~7 weapon classes, magic, throwables... mixable skill trees) +extremely smooth…”
13 of the 77 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“It's great until about halfway through and then balance goes out the window. Bosses feel like they have 2-3x more health than they should have, and some of the hitboxes are wonky. The framerate dips in the Galaxy Mage…”
“+feels like handcrafted adventure (no copy paste world) with souls-elements +great exploration, many cute details and npcs +7 main classes (~7 weapon classes, magic, throwables... mixable skill trees) +extremely smooth…”
“I haven't been able to leave a good review in a long time. I'm surprised. There's some issues with having to spam jump when going up between screens or else he falls back down. The map markers don't seem to work past 3…”
12 of the 77 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“It's great until about halfway through and then balance goes out the window. Bosses feel like they have 2-3x more health than they should have, and some of the hitboxes are wonky. The framerate dips in the Galaxy Mage…”
“tl;dr avoid level design sucks the story/writing sucks combat is too spammy parrying sucks there are 3 different axes: the starting one, one you get before the final boss and the last one drops from the true final…”
12 of the 77 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Man this game is boring as ♥♥♥♥. Level design is ass, levels are all short asf, bosses honestly are a complete hit or miss, some are funny other are incrediblly boring. Theres no real choice for how to build your…”
“+feels like handcrafted adventure (no copy paste world) with souls-elements +great exploration, many cute details and npcs +7 main classes (~7 weapon classes, magic, throwables... mixable skill trees) +extremely smooth…”
“tl;dr avoid level design sucks the story/writing sucks combat is too spammy parrying sucks there are 3 different axes: the starting one, one you get before the final boss and the last one drops from the true final…”
Counted across 77 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 81.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“This game has a robustly defined personality and identity, so i wont be comparing it to other titles of the genre. Its biggest strenghs are the story (actually quite complex for a title this size, very good), the characters (the main ones actually have motivations, hopes and…”
— a player, Steam review · 57 hrs played“Awesome hidden gem. I loved the gameplay and especially the visuals.”
— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played“It's missing some polishing in almost every aspect: - Music is very good at times, but gets cut off a lot. There is a lot of unnecessary silence. - Combat has some depth to it, but also has some awful hitboxes. - Bosses have a decent variety of mechanics, but get very spongy in…”
— a player, Steam review · 62 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Ashes of Vados PC 1.2.7 (Turkish language patch)
A new patch just dropped (1.2.7) adding a Turkish language option! Thank you all for your continued support and for your patience as we continue to update the game.
Patch 1.2.4 Fix - Asian Languages
We have resolved the issue where text was incorrectly presented when playing in Japanese. Afterlife and the Ashes of Vados DLC are now fully playable in Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Tradit
An update on Patch 1.2.4 (Asian languages patch)
We are aware of the issues players are running into when playing the game in the newly added Asian languages, specifically Japanese, where the wrong lines are displayed at key moments. We're currently
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Souls-like · Metroidvania · RPG · Pixel Graphics · Dark Fantasy · Action · 2D · Indie · Adventure · Platformer · Difficult · Action RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 43 |
| Official site | https://serenityforge.com/games/deaths-gambit-afterlife |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32bit Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.9GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT/ AMD Radeon HD 6450 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Windows Compatible Sound card