Afterlove EP is a up-to-date visual novel and/or album Broken Hearts from Indonesian Pixelnesia programmers. This is a depressed, sleepy story about a musician musician who tries to make his life and connect again with his elderly colleagues from the band in Jakarta a year after the death of his girlfriend Cinty. A complicated factor is that Cinta did not disappear completely: it is a voice in the head of the frame, talking to him through the 28-day story of the game, as if sitting next to the player on the other side of the screen.
Afterlove EP is the original idea of Mohammad Fahmi, the creator of coffee and what will happen later, who died in 2022. His colleagues from Pixelnesia count with their own sadness, ending their game. I play EP Afterlove for reviews and although it is a tiny game – maybe five to eight hours – in which you spend a lot of time listening to conversations, it was tough for me. I lost a few people myself, and this is a fairly plain game about regret: discovering him, unpacking, arguing about it, spending, or maybe just with him.
Therefore, I decided to miss the embargo for a review this week and give the game the time that must settle in my head. But I am confident, saying that there is an fascinating narrative project here, presented in the form of suggestively sloppy hand -drawn art, in the company of tender independent rock music. If you fancy trying yourself, you can find EP Afterlove Couple.
