A desk job game like Not For Broadcast

Keeping a live show on air with one hand on the bleep button is a very particular kind of fun. DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing offers another one: one room, one machine and a line of the dead with no end.

What will feel familiar

A workstation you learn by touch. Levers, slips, a terminal and a press. The interface is the room.
Instructions from above. The directives on the board are numbered, amended and always right.
Dry humor in the paperwork. Theft? Descend. Charity? Ascend. Got any questions? Consult the board.
No time to stop. The dead are waiting for you. Don’t let them pile up.

What is new

Instead of a broadcast, a line of the dead. Every soul arrives as a life in three fragments, and you decide where it goes: Disposition A or Disposition B. Gold or red.

The job grows with you. Every processed soul prints a slip, every slip is money, and the catalog sells upgrades for your press and machines for the parts of the job you like least.

The sound is handmade too: every stamp, every gear.

A soul’s life on the terminal, in three fragments

Questions

Is DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing like Not For Broadcast?

Both are jobs at a workstation, run by rules you don’t write, against the clock. In DEADLINE the workstation is a press in an office in the afterlife, and the work is reading the lives of the dead and deciding where they go.

Is there a demo?

Yes. The demo is part of Steam Next Fest, October 19–26, 2026.

Which platforms is it on?

Windows, on Steam.

Play the demo

The DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing demo is part of Steam Next Fest, October 19–26, 2026.

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Not For Broadcast belongs to its creators. DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing is not affiliated with it. Press kit