OXENFREE II: Lost Signals Reviews

Really enjoyed the first game, and this was a very good sequel.

If you thought your life was depressing, this game will show you characters with more depressing lives. 10/10 Would get sad again.

In OX2 You play as a grumpy middle aged woman who just wants to get the hell out of the town she grew up in, And this never ends, she complains and goes on and on about how she hates her life, and how it has only led her back to her boring little home town, and her attitude never changes. She doesn't care about the ghosts, or weird shit that happens, shes indifferent to everything else and to her co-worker. She just wants to leave and shes not shy about letting everyone know. OX1 was an adventure game where you had to find your friends and unravel the mystery of the island. OX2 is just work.

Not as good as the first one, but definitely worth playing. One of the great games!

I played and loved the first Oxenfree, but this one didn't hit the same way. The atmospheric horror wasn't as potent the second go around. I'm not sure if it's me or the game that changed.

I do recommend it. The writing is good and for a dialogue based game the conversations work really well. If you like the first Oxenfree, I'd say play this just to get a slightly more grown up story in the same universe. But that is where my recommendation ends. If you haven't played the first Oxenfree, please just play that, it is so good and the whole game is so well designed you really feel you got everything out of it. In this one, well no. It just isn't to its level of its predecessor. It is 'just good'

Like most sequels, it will never live up to the original because that one was, well, original, while this one copies many of the same ideas. I also found the characters more vivid in the original, and their relationships more interesting. Riley and Jacob have their moments, but their extended conversations about the boredom of existence get a little boring by the end. This was still a decent adventure game with a suspenseful story and beautiful environments, and on balance I found it worth playing.

I've already played it on my Switch but bought it a second time because I wanted to play it also another time on PC. People complain that it is not as good as the first one but that's not true. What we do see in the second game are things we might know from the first one but does this make it a bad game because it's not inventing a new concept? Not in my opinion. The dialogues are well written and the voice actors doing a very good job, also the music is on point just like in the first game. You pay about 20€ when it's not on sale for around 15-20h if you take your time to explore everything in detail and I think it is worth the money even though Netflix has enough. I love the atmosphere of the second game more than in the first one even though it is very simillar. Also what I did not liked about the first one is that you had to play it twice to get a "good" ending. This one here does not require that which is a positive thing in my eyes because as in the first game you are only having autosaves. If you are a fan of the first game or just like a very well written sci-fi story which is also kind of depressing then get it, you don't need to know the first game at all but it's nice to know some things/names when you have played it before. Also it helps to understand the world a bit better but if you just play Oxenfree 2 you will also be not too confused :) 10/10 (No Spoilers just my thoughts: The only thing I would done "better" is the ending but we it would not be Oxenfree if it would not be bittersweet)

Family trauma wheeeeeeeeee! You can pet the dog ooooooooh! You can send a whiny ass teenager to limbo forever aaaaaaaah! Good game, made me tear up a tad.

So, Oxenfree is one of my favorite games. So, I was happy, unable to contain my joy even. So, I was dying because of how nervous the prospect of a sequel made me. Would it be as good? Better? Would it be worse? Would my experience with the og be tarnished because of it? Would I be strong enough to not let it tarnish? So. It was good. Not better, but Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, contrary to what some people would like to tell you, works best as a response to the first game. do yourself a favor and play that one. It is a direct continuation, and it does put on the Big Person Pants to deal with the implications of being a direct continuation. There are no perfect choices, no perfect outcomes, just people doing what people do: their best, hopefully, and pray it is enough. Whether it is or isn't is up to you. About Lost Signals. You are Riley, a 30-something down on her luck woman in need of a job, any job, and the one that hires you happens to be in your old hometown, that place you thought you could leave behind. You'd actually returned a bit before, for reasons unrelated, but here you are, cold and accompanied by some wiry guy you went to high school with. Hi name's Jacob, and he, besides mission control, is also not having the best of days. I'd like to think that Night School Studio chose to have a more 'disconnected' cast, as in these people barely know or don't know each other at all, because Oxenfree was exactly the opposite of that, sort of. Here you'll be building relationships from zero, how tall your metaphorical buildings go, in which direction, how far and wide and all that jazz, is up to you. The script is strong and heartbreaking all the same. You might tune in and talk to that lonely radio host, or that lonely sailor, or that lonely park ranger. They're all lonely tonight. You are lonely tonight, but you don't have to be, if you make the effort to connect with them and with Jacob and with the world you so dread. Maybe. It really is up to you. Gameplay remains similar to the first game, with the addition of a walkie talkie you'll use to talk to everyone not present at the location, and extra, much needed polish. The backgrounds and sound design are, once again, very painterly and heart tugging, and the voice acting is stellar. This is a solid one. Would rather only say this: the climax does hit harder if you play the first game, which is a good game, so go play it and then play this. Please. I'm on my knees. My cat's on his knees. Please. For more reviews of games that are creepy, or cute, or both, check out my curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44079361/