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# ONLY SLIME rebuilt their computer-game opera as AFTERLIFE,
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/only-slime-rebuilt-their-computer-game-opera-as-afterlife/
- Published: 2026-08-14T03:32:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T03:32:15.000Z
- Description: Visitors are so far inside the game they're asking for a reset button.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: opera, exhibition, Greek Mythology, Installation, motion controls, ONLY SLIME, FACT Liverpool, Liverpool

My favorite review of *AFTERLIFE*, ONLY SLIME's exhibition at FACT Liverpool, sits in the comments under [the gallery's how-to-play reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbdA2w6ohsg/?ref=killscreen.com): two visitors got "stuck in some meditating cutscene for ages" and would very much like a reset button. When a gallery show needs a reset button, the games have stopped being decoration.

ONLY SLIME is Toby Pfeil and Claudia Cox, and *AFTERLIFE* rebuilds their 2023 computer-game opera as a walk-in installation. Two 3D characters, Axi and Zi, drift through fantasy underworlds assembled from Greek mythology and contemporary internet culture, and the room's motion-tracking sensors pull visitors into the story—you steer the pair, trigger mini-games, and nudge which paths they take through a world between life and death. FACT posted an explainer because the show honestly needs one: the games are the exhibition, not the interactive garnish next to it.

![Two artists in costume at a CRT computer in pink gaming chairs on a checkered floor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/08/only-slime-afterlife-fact-crt.jpg)

ONLY SLIME walk through the games in [FACT's explainer reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbdA2w6ohsg/?ref=killscreen.com)

Opera and games keep circling each other—we noted [a Minecraft opera](https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/check-out-opera-minecraft/?ref=killscreen.com) a decade ago—but the traffic usually runs one way, with games borrowing opera's staging for a boss reveal. ONLY SLIME wrote the opera inside the game first and then let the game swallow the opera house. 

*AFTERLIFE* runs through Sunday, Aug. 16 at FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool—Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., free. This week is the last call.