The Happy Hereafter

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The Happy Hereafter

Short description

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!

Developer
Alawar, Mirball Games
Publisher
ESDigital Games
Release
Thu, Jun 05, 2014
Price
$3.99
$0.99
75%
Reviews
416
Positive
78%
Followers
532
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
2
Genres
Casual, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards
Tags
Casual Strategy Simulation
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$68ksomewhere between $30k and $1.8m · roughly 8K–500K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $3.62, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $3.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

9 data points since Aug 17, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$68k → ~$68k
Reviews 415 → 416
Followers 528 → 532
Concurrent players 2 → 2
Price $3.99 → $0.99
Positive reviews 78.3% → 78.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 231 further data points reach back to Jun 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.51 on Jun 22, 2017.

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