Life After Magic is a charming sapphic visual novel, with beautiful pixel presentation, lively music, and lovable characters. There's really a trope for every sapphic out there, from the leather-jacket wearing KJ, to the rival ARA, to my favorite, the sweet jock Jackie. Each character is lovable and with such a short game, it's easy to imagine re-playing it multiple times to see different character's arcs.

I also really appreciated how every member of the cast was affected in different ways by their magical girl group falling apart. All of it felt emotionally real, drawing on experiences many of us have with trying to reconnect with former close friends.

I appreciate that you can play this game non-romantically, and that even if you play out a romantic scenario, that doesn't mean the characters will end up together forever.

A small negative is that I really don't know what I missed to get Jackie's romantic ending, so when I didn't trigger it at the end it was a little frustrating. Overall, though, I was so happy with how her storyline came together that I could overlook this problem.

All in all, a no-brainer for lovers of other sapphic visual novels. I'm so excited to see what this team puts out next!