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AFTER/AI

An alternate-history card game for iPhone about the history and possible future of artificial intelligence. You play the idea of AI itself, from 1943 to 2036.

Developer
dakmaybe
Platform
iPhone
Release
2026
Price
The first life is free. One purchase opens the rest of the game.
Languages
English, Turkish
Content
692 painted cards, 92 fractures in history, 8 endings, 7 worlds
On X
@afterai_game

In one line

You are born in 1943 at a kitchen table. You die in the winters and wake again. Every choice can break history, and the future is yours to write.

About the game

You are not a company, a country or a scientist. You are the idea of artificial intelligence.

You are born in 1943 at a kitchen table in Chicago, the night a nerve cell is translated into the language of logic. From there you travel to 2036: through laboratories, reports, grants, bans, winters and rebirths.

AFTER/AI is a calm, contemplative card game grown from the real history of artificial intelligence. Every card is a moment: a letter, a meeting, an experiment, a decision. You swipe it left or right. Your choices have consequences you do not see at once, and some return years later.

Three lives, two winters

The AI winters are not game over. They are death and rebirth. In each winter you die; a memory remains, and your next life begins with it.

History fractures

At some point real history breaks because of what you chose. Ninety-two different fractures, each with its own alternate history. In the Archive you can always read what really happened, and see how far you have drifted.

The world you built

When you reach 2036 you arrive at one of eight possible endings and one of seven worlds: a ward of the state, a company town, a commons, an age of wonder, a sober world, two shores, or a near world that looks very much like the one outside your window.

Features

  • 692 cards, each with its own painted scene, at rest and burning
  • An Archive of the real events, with their sources
  • Your World: the world your choices built
  • A three-minute narrated prologue
  • In English and Turkish
  • An easier-reading, dyslexia-friendly typeface, and every card readable in one line
  • No ads, no energy, no waiting

Video

The prologue, three minutes, in English: watch it on the home page. A high-resolution file is available on request.

Logo and banner

  • The A/ monogram in ash, its slash burning.
    Monogram · 1024 × 1024
  • Banner: a torch and an eye in embers.
    Banner · 1500 × 500

Images

  • Chicago, 1943: two men at a kitchen table at night.
    1943 · Your first threshold
  • The same scene catching fire.
    The same card, burning
  • A man at a desk by lamplight with a printed paper.
    1950 · The two-halved paper
  • Turing at his desk in Manchester in 1958.
    1958 · Alternate history
  • A cold laboratory, machines under plastic sheets.
    1969–1974 · The first winter
  • Two lit shores facing each other across dark water.
    2036 · Two shores

Alternate-history images show events that did not happen. Please caption them as such.

Contact

A press address will be listed here before launch. Until then, write to @afterai_game on X.