Night time College Studio has delayed its “What is going on on with that radio?” spook-em-up Oxenfree 2: Misplaced Alerts. Initially introduced with a launch date of fall 2021, then pushed into 2022, it is now been delayed into subsequent 12 months. “Seeing your fan artwork, studying your excited feedback, and connecting with you fuels our ambition to make this our greatest sport but”, Night time College stated on Twitter (opens in new tab). “To make OXENFREE II really particular and add extra localizations, we’re transferring our launch window to 2023.”
The unique Oxenfree made our checklist of the very best horror video games due to its eerie environment, intelligent twist on the stranded-teenagers subgenre, and wonderful dialogue. In his Oxenfree evaluation, Andy Kelly wrote, “Typically, conversations in videogames sound like two folks taking turns to learn out strains. However in Oxenfree the strains stream collectively seamlessly, and you may reply at any time by deciding on one in all three solutions. The characters will even react to your silence if you happen to don’t reply them, or if you happen to resolve to stroll away and ignore them. This, mixed with implausible writing and voice performing, makes Oxenfree the most effective digital recreations of actual people speaking to one another—which is fortunate, as a result of the dialogue is nearly continuous.”
Oxenfree 2: Misplaced Alerts will star a brand new protagonist who returns to her hometown, a coastal group known as Camena, and finds it besieged by unnatural electromagnetic phenomena. Like the unique it guarantees to have selections that matter and an in-depth dialogue system, with a brand new mechanic that permits you to use your walkie-talkie to begin a dialog by yourself time wherever you might be.
Night time College launched a comedy sport known as Afterparty in 2019, which did not make fairly as massive a splash as its modern debut. The indie studio was then purchased by Netflix in 2021, and launched a cellular version of Oxenfree by them—Netflix stays devoted to cellular video games, that means that though its library contains video games like Into the Breach, Moonlighter, and Oxenfree you may’t play them on the laptop computer you in all probability watch Netflix on. Oxenfree 2 will nonetheless come out on PC, nonetheless, and will probably be accessible on Steam (opens in new tab) subsequent 12 months.
