Two years after a rain-soaked power outage in suburban Manila became one of the most quietly devastating stories in modern games, Until Then is back. Developer Polychroma Games and publisher Maximum Entertainment have launched Afterimages, a brand-new story expansion for their award-winning narrative adventure, on June 18 across PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S.
The 2024 original followed high-schooler Mark Borja through an ordinary-seeming life in the Philippines — band practice, group chats, a creeping sense that something in his memory had been quietly rewritten. Its mix of grounded slice-of-life detail and supernatural unease, paired with a pixel-art presentation that treated a humid afternoon with the reverence most games reserve for boss fights, earned it a devoted following and a clutch of narrative awards. Afterimages is the first major continuation of that world.
Two new chapters about what comes after
Afterimages is built around two new chapters that pick up threads the base game left deliberately frayed. In one, Sofia returns home to confront the memories she left behind. In the other, Mark meets both a new lover and an old friend, and has to reckon with how much has changed in the spaces between. Polychroma has been open that the expansion is less about resolving the original’s central mystery than about sitting with its aftermath — grief, memory, and the stubborn way life keeps going after loss.
New ways to pass the time
It is not all melancholy. The DLC adds a handful of new mini-games, including tarot readings and baking, alongside fresh in-game phone apps for dating and video content — the same kind of diegetic detail that made the original’s smartphone feel like a real teenager’s. A mix of returning and new characters rounds out the package, giving long-time players reunions and newcomers fresh faces to meet.
A physical edition and a launch party
For collectors, Maximum Entertainment is following the digital release with a physical edition on September 3 that bundles the base game and Afterimages together. Polychroma is also marking the moment in person: an event billed as “Afterimages: the gig + game night” takes place on June 27 at Sari Sari in Makati City, sitting neatly between the DLC’s June 18 launch and the game’s second anniversary on June 25.
For a game that always understood the weight of small moments, a story about what lingers after the credits roll feels like exactly the right kind of encore.
