Spirit of the North 2 Steam Charts & Stats

It's a very fun game, includes exploring, having fun, solving puzzles and cleansing guardian animals in different areas. I would recommend playing it because it is a sandbox game and it is an enhanced version of Spirit of the North and any fox fans will love it.

I never write reviews - I had to for this game. First, I want to preface with I am not a big single player gamer; however, Spirit of the North gave me everything I needed from one. This game is the perfect blend of cozy gamer with elements of action. Let me highlight the great aspects of this game. 1) The best thing about this game is telling a story without dialogue. SOTN2 took this to another level with the lore scrolls, cut scenes, map locations and soundtrack. 2) I can't write this review without highlighting the world building. SOTN 1 was great taking us through Icelandic ruins and scenery. But then we get Nordic culture in SOTN2? I am sold. Every area is so unique, and tells us of the type of people who once resided there. I caught myself pondering many times while exploring. 3) Great quality of life features and general upgrades. There is a map! We have fast travel and are not limited to chapters! We can customize our fox even more! Platforming the map feels more complex; we can customize our play style with runes to complete challenges. The game has a visual face lift compared to SOTN1 (which only came out approx. 5 years ago). 4) I love the achievement hunting and progression. SOTN1 takes about 8 hour playtime; but in SOTN2, you can spend hours working towards objectives even after the story is complete. It makes me hopeful that content might be added in the future. You can just tell this game was made with so much love to do something different. Are there quirks and bugs, sure. Does it still give that indie game feel, absolutely. Since I bought the game at launch, there has been many hot fixes that include QOL upgrades we are asking for. This game is a 10/10 and blew me away. I am so excited to see what comes next and hope for a co-op option (so I can play with my sister). Thank you!!! P.S: I am not an expert in platforming games so I DIED A LOT.

What can I say, I loved this game so very much. From chill music to beautiful graphics. I could honestly just stay by the water and watch it forever. I loved some of the intricate details like unlocking a fox den and using a torch to make it homier and lighting other torches. Loved the dungeons and the creepy atmosphere to some of them. How the fog, rain, and snow roll across the land. I seen a lot of complaints on the bosses being too hard. I did not find them to be hard when equipping the proper runes, the difficulty felt exactly right, beating them all first try except the last one. [spoiler]The two wolves being my favorite out of all of them. [/spoiler] Also being a fox and screaming at everything was plain fun. So much customization and options for your fox character as well. I loved exploring every inch of the map and this game very much rewards you for doing so. Game gave me some Okami vibes with restoring some areas which I adored. Jumping can be finicky at times but feels so good jumping to small beams and ledges balancing with ease just like a real fox. My personal QOL thoughts but I felt that some of the runes should have been just a permanent part of your fox not needing to switch them out (dash, spirit form, spirit jump) should all just have been built in not needing to swap out a rune. Also swapping runes should have some sort of quick menu rather than having to cycle into the menu every time you need to swap one out… gave me Ocarina of Time water temple PTSD lol. Also, a mini map/quick map would be nice. My only main complaints would be the bosses did feel a bit janky is the best word I can use and could use some more polish and would love bigger more dramatic music during them. Traversal is also slow, could use some more warp points and or make your spirit running not use energy to get around quicker. Overall, I loved every moment of this game and had to 100% it and the achievements highly recommend! What a huge leap over the first game! I hope we get a third one! 🟩 Positives • Beautiful graphics • Dynamic weather and environment • Fun rewarding exploration • Interesting story • Tons of character customization • Pleasant fitting music 🟥 Negatives • Janky bosses • Slow traversal • Annoying constant back and forth into menu to swap runes • Some runes feel they should be built right into your fox permanently Gameplay: 10/10 Audio: 910 Story: 9/10 Graphics: 10/10 Bugs: Some Difficulty: Minor some clipping Length: 43hrs at time of writing (100% achievement run) Overall: 9.5/10 *Excited fox screaming noises!!*

Played the first both on Steam and PS - as soon as this was announced I was eager to play it. 100% Fox hours: bicker with the bird, scream into the abyss, collect trinkets, hoard crystals, scale mountains or walk the sea bottom(if you're brave enough) - story wise? its great, the world is gorgeous and there is lots of lil nooks and crannies to explore with puzzles to solve or lore to find. Everything feels lovingly crafted and placed with purpose to the point you may find yourself scouting every corner of the map for anything you might have missed. I've completed the game but I'll be back to pick on Gerald!

When playing this game i got stuck in a rock and Didn't have a way to get /unstuck, its not a bad game and I would recommend this to others if there was a way to get unstuck.

I want to like this game, but it needs a lot of work to be acceptable. If they can improve these things, I would adore this game so much. I love the concept, but it needs bug fixes and texture improvements to be acceptable and worth the money. I will look forward to the improvements, and purchasing it after these issues are fixed. At very least, the crashing and some texture updating, and no more clipping textures. Game Crashes: It crashes every few mins (2 times in 4 mins at the start then about every 10 mins after that), I tried to allow it in my firewall, restart it, run as admin, uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted pc, everything listed on many sites to fix crashes specifically for this game and it did not work. Visual Issues: The ground doesn't render fully, massive parts of it are blurry The fur texture is really ecky to look at with the low quality fur texture of default fur The jump animation seems a bit stiff The cloth in the top of the starting area looks really really bad its square and pixely It flashes clipping textures when you walk over rocks and spazzes out your camera visually The paws go UNDER the ground or float on uneven ground very noticeably, not just a little bit, but an unforgivable amount The back of the coat violently flashes black and to normal if you jump through light in the very start of the game. Reply: My system is very above the requirements and has over 1.5 TB open. I tried quite a few things to fix the crashes, worked on it for a few hours trying different things. Each time it just said "Critical Error" or something similar, and froze then crashed. I do believe I exhausted every option in attempting to get it to work, was quite sad when it just would not stay up for more than ten mins or so. It always reloaded about a min away from the last time it saved. Edit after discussing on discord: I joined the discord and we spoke over how it could be the RAM maxing out, this was the main assumption. However, I do not believe this to be the issue in my case seeing as I have plenty. I was told the fur textures were "normal" with the black pixel spots under the white fur of the default coat I want to run this game on max settings, and was told it doesn't work well on them. I don't believe that "the game doesn't run good on max settings" is a good enough excuse for the coding and does not warrant a purchase right now. I hope these shading/coding/crashing issues are fixed and it does not require so much effort to attempt to play a game I paid ~30$ for. Again, I adore the concept of this game and I hope for improvements! I'm still sad it didn't work

I absolutely adore the first game and love the second, there's a lot to do and so much new worldbuilding! It may take some getting used to since the item collection and storytelling are a tad different, but it's well worth the experience and I absolutely recommend it. Also this is for you Gerald

I was enjoying the game for 10 hours or so and this was pretty much supposed to be the positive review. Yes, the game is full of lesser glitches and I had a couple of crashes, but all of this could have been easily forgivable, given the amazing experience that Spirit Of The North 2 delivers. Earlier today, the game has crashed with another UE mesage, like it already did a few times before. When I restarted, however, my save file was corrupted and I was taken back to the beginning of the game, which is extremely frustrating and disappointing. Now I will have to wait until the game is fully polished before trying back again :( As a suggestion to the devs, it might be a good idea to use the same approach as in Clair Obscur and allow loading a few previous auto-saves. This will have the players on the safe side, should they crash or fall into something they can't get out of (I had this issue in the caves right after defeating the first boss). Also, it would be nice to have a possibility to back-track a bit in case you do something wrong.

I have very mixed feelings about this game. I liked the first game a lot and I had high hopes for this game. However, it's extremely poorly optimized. No PC can run it without upscaling. Not even on MEDIUM settings for crying out loud! Not only that, but because you HAVE to use upscaling, the game looks pretty bad. There's a LOT of shimmering everywhere. But aside from that, when you manage to find playable settings that doesn't look horrendous, the game itself is ... well, it can be enjoyable at times. I liked exploring places, running around and finding stuff and just relaxing. The last game was like a visual novel, and I thought this was too. Well, no. Your relaxed laid back gameplay is halted by stupid boss battles, timed events, timed skills, janky platforming and absolutely ZERO clue where to go next, what to do, when, or where. And even the music can't really save this game. some tracks are just plain annoying with some high pitched whistling sound pearcing your eardrums, while others are just dull. And the fox gets stuck on almost all possible stairs in the game. There's always that one step it can't climb over and you have to jump or go around or something. It completely breaks the flow and is really annoying. I REALLY wanted to like this game, but I just can't. It's just too tedious and annoying. It lacks polish, optimization and has too much going on. You'll have to swap runes around a lot. Boss battles are the biggest issue. A game such as this one should never have them. Especially when they are so annoying to deal with. The Stag battle especially! Hated it. A LOT. The Raven wasn't that bad... but like I said, not in a game like this. And if you used your skill points on something else than HP or Spirit you'll have that much harder time with the bosses. And I could only guess they get worse from where I am. Why oh why does every single game have to have some dark souls bosses in them... I may push through the game and might change my review later should my mind change later. But as of now, I really can't recommend this game. One of the biggest issues is the performance. I have 7900 XT and 9800X3D and can't reach 60 FPS on medium settings at 1440p... That's pretty horrendous. Quality upscaling makes it much better, but the fidelity suffers a lot. there's a ton of shimmering the higher you go. Probably better with Nvidia cards or 9070 XT if the game supports FSR 4. And the difficulty, clueless wandering and so on. It's just not very enjoyable. At least you can get your gems back if you go back to the place you died at... But why is that even a thing in the first place? Why punish players for dying like that? Another Dark Souls feature... Doesn't fit in a game like this. Sometimes--no--usually, less is more. Oh, and it's not like that you can just press retry after dying at boss battle. You'll have to go back there manually from wherever was the last shrine, sometimes making you platform there a long way. So it takes time and is very tedious and annoying. I'm honestly struggling to find much positive to say. But here goes. Some effects are really nice. The glow effects, lighting, icons and the interface and settings. They are all great. Sound effects are also nice. And the animation of the fox is absolutely out of this world. It's so great to look at. (Although its fur doesn't look that good even on high settings) Woops, a negative comment there at the end. But yeah. That's how I feel about it. Mostly negative. Couldn't recommend if your goal is to relax while gaming. This isn't a game for that.

loving this game so far, it scratches that itch to just run around exploring as a foxxo the devs took everything rough about the first game, refined it, and added even more good stuff pros: + fox + beautiful scenery and music + rewards exploration with hidden little things everywhere + much better platforming than the first game with the addition of the precision jumping + did I mention: fox cons: - map can feel a little too spacious at times - limited teleporting/fast travel -minor graphical issues occasionally