Next Life

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Next Life
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Developer(s) Future Games
Publisher(s) The Adventure Company
Engine OGRE
Platform(s) Windows
Release
  • NA: November 20, 2007
Mode(s) Single-player

Next Life is an adventure game developed by Czech company Future Games [1] and published by The Adventure Company designed for Microsoft Windows-based computers. The game engine is OGRE.

Contents

Premise

The main character Adam Reichl possibly dies in a car accident and wakes up on unknown island in the middle of nowhere. He starts to explore and tries to find out where he is, [2] [3] only to find that there are other people in the island seemingly from different time periods.

Reception

Next Life received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the game received a score of 56/100 based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [4]

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References

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  2. http://www.databaze-her.cz/hry/reprobates/ czech
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