Press kit

About the game

The dead wait in line. You run the press. Read each soul, judge it, seal it and get paid for it.

Welcome to the Dispositions Section. Your post is Station 9. The dead are waiting for you, don’t let them pile up. Where the line starts is not your concern. It ends at your press.

Every soul is a life split into three fragments, printed in amber on a terminal that’s probably older than you. Some fragments are confessions. Some are alibis. Some are just what the neighbors saw. The record is all you get, and the record is rarely the whole story.

The rules are on the board. Numbered, amended, always right. Theft? Descend. Charity? Ascend. Got any questions? Consult the board. When no directive quite fits, the operator decides. Always careful.

Set the verdict. Pull the lever. The seal comes down, and the soul is paperwork now. Carry it to Disposition A or Disposition B. Gold or Red. Two exits. No appeals.

Every processed soul prints a slip. Every slip is money. At the window, the catalog sells what money can buy: better boots, a faster line, upgrades for your press, machines for the parts of the job you like least. Every page of the catalog makes the next shift easier, hopefully. And there’s always another page.

Key features

• Read the written lives of the dead, three fragments each.
• A rulebook that never stops growing. Rules shift, rules get amended. Keep up.
• One room. One machine. A line with no end.
• Earn by the soul, spend on the machine. The catalog always has more.
• No health bars, no minimaps, no menus. The interface is the room: paper, machines, and ink.
• A handcrafted soundscape. Every stamp, every gear.

Screenshots

Click a screenshot to download it at full size.

Logo

PNG with transparent background, 1280 × 450.

Trailer

Coming soon.

Content description

DEADLINE: Afterlife Processing is a game about judging the souls of the dead in a bureaucratic afterlife. Its mature content is purely thematic and text-based: you are tasked with reading short descriptions of human lives, which may include non-graphic descriptions of death, crimes (such as theft, fraud, and killings), moral wrongdoing, and occasionally references to alcohol. Nothing violent or sexual is depicted on screen; the souls are abstract glowing spheres, and all sensitive content exists as brief, matter-of-fact text. The game’s themes include death, guilt, and judgment, and are treated seriously and may weigh on some players, but there is absolutely no gore, no explicit content, and no depicted violence.

System requirements

OS

Windows 10 64-bit

Processor

Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD equivalent

Memory

8 GB RAM

Graphics

NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD R9 280 (2GB VRAM)

DirectX

Version 11

Storage

4 GB available space

Minimum.

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