Losing The Game
Like most god games, Afterlife is open-ended and does not have set conditions for winning the game. There are, however, a few definite ways of losing the game.
Twilight of the Demiurges occurs when there are a lot of unemployed workers who begin to stage raids on the opposite realm. If the worker problem is not controlled, these renegades will eventually begin an all-out war between Heaven and Hell, at which point recovery is impossible and advisers inform the player that the game is over.
The Four Surfers of the Apocalypso will make an appearance if the player stays too deep in debt for too long. If the player doesn't turn a profit for several decades and takes out some loans without repaying them, then The Powers That Be summon the surfers to destroy the afterlife in a wave of fire and destruction.
Nuclear Apocalypse can occur on the Planet, wiping out the whole population and essentially ending the game. This will only happen once the Planet has achieved a certain level of technology, and requires a particularly wrathful civilization. Therefore, as technology nears the point of nuclear weapons, it is wise to use influence to promote the virtue of peace on the Planet.
Extinction is a rare occurrence, but can be more easily attained through use of money cheats. If a player raises the tech level of the Planet to its maximum at the beginning of the game, EMBO expansion will not occur. Once an asteroid event wipes out the existing population the player is shown an empty street, SOULs stop coming to the afterlife, and the game is over.
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