Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals is smart. It’s doing something that only games can do, blending the past, present and future in real time. For the past few years, the first game in the series has been projecting sinister and weird messages to players via its in-game radio. If you boot up Oxenfree now, you’ll hear things that weren’t there at launch – aberrant snatches of conversation and schisms in reality that the Parentage (the game’s villains) are supposedly patching in through space, time, and reality.
This is par for the course in Oxenfree, though. The series is only young, but it’s already got a reputation amongst developers and indie game fans as one of the most atmospheric, uneasy narrative experiences of the past generation. It was a story about grief, guilt, and ghosts, that was told through a grounded and innocent lens via a bunch of kids that accidentally stumble upon a phenomenon that no-one could possibly understand.
Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals builds on these solid foundations. Rather than a bunch of kids looking tentatively towards their futures, the sequel begins with a reluctant homecoming. Protagonist Riley Poverly returns to her childhood home to find nothing is quite as she left it – but everything is also sort-of the same. I’m sure any of you that have moved away and been called back for reasons out of your control will know what I mean.
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