Oxenfree II:
Lost Signals

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (2023) is an unsettling narrative adventure and sequel to Oxenfree. Like that game, you guide your character through choices that affect the direction of the well-written and complex story and tune your radio to overhear mysterious conversations. This time, you also have a walkie-talkie that enables you to communicate with people regardless of location.

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You play Riley Poverly, who years after the first game returns to her hometown to stop a mysterious supernatural cult called Parentage. As you explore the town of Camena and the surrounding area you talk to locals and decide how these conversations develop.

Your walkie-talkie, a new addition to this game, means that you can contact people (or be contacted by them) regardless of your location, broadening the scope and scale of the game. Using your radio, you can tap into otherworldly conversations and even travel to the past by tuning into tears in time itself and travelling through the fissures that result.

Your dialogue choices directly affect how the story unfolds, leading to multiple possible endings. As the plot darkens and becomes stranger at every turn, you must fight to save not only your future but also the future of everyone on Earth. While the first game featured a whole group of teenagers, this one is far more focussed on Riley and her relationship with her old school friend and the other inhabitants of Camena, giving the story a far more personal intimacy.

The result is a game that still features all the emotional heart and complexity of the first game, as well as the dark strangeness, but also has a more involved and engaging world through the addition of the walkie-talkie that allows you to talk to people all across the map.

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Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Oxenfree II: Lost Signals 21 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.