Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts lastly bought a launch date. Throughout the Nintendo Indie World Showcase, held early Thursday, developer Evening Faculty Studio confirmed that its long-delayed supernatural thriller sequel is now arriving July 12 on PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Change, and Netflix. Whereas the follow-up wasn’t initially related to the unique Oxenfree, a sequence of updates in 2021 added radio transitions that would supply context into some future villains, a gaggle known as Parentage. Later that yr, Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts bought delayed into 2023, with the objective of including extra localisation choices.
Evening Faculty Studio additionally dropped a trailer for Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts, which revolves round a brand new character Riley, an environmental researcher returning to her hometown of Camena. This sequel is ready 5 years after the unique and has you examine bizarre electromagnetic waves which can be inflicting interference with radio and electrical tools. It is virtually like a poltergeist’s presence — TVs activate and off, planes are unable to navigate, and all radio stations really feel powerless in opposition to the static. Again in 2016’s Oxenfree, a gaggle of youngsters on the Edwards Island inadvertently opened a portal, permitting free journey between realities and timelines — akin to Stranger Issues.
However now, the members of a cult group, the aforementioned Parentage, have been prodding on the probability of opening a brand new portal and pulling one thing sinister out. “Have you ever seen anybody else round? We have been throughout,” Riley tells her associate within the Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts trailer, hinting they’re traversing by way of a ghost city and that the cult may need one thing to do with it. The sport works on a simple point-and-click mechanic, the place you faucet into ghostly frequencies utilizing the signature ‘radio mechanic’ as means to speak with supernatural entities and soar again in time by way of fissures within the pure house. The trailer provides glimpses of a bunch of unnatural occurrences corresponding to a glitchy demon, characters being forcefully levitated, and a bizarre tilting home.
Moreover that, you have bought the final navigation, which incorporates climbing and rappelling throughout Camena’s hauntingly stunning panorama. There’s additionally a brand new ‘walkie-talkie dialog system’ that allows you to work together with saved contacts and communicate to locals to piece collectively the thriller surrounding the city. Evening Faculty Studio was the primary developer Netflix acquired as a part of the streamer’s pivot into gaming content material. Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts’ launch date reveal comes within the wake of Netflix asserting a slate of 40 new video games coming to its platform in 2023.
Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts releases July 12 on PC (Steam), PS4, PS5, Nintendo Change, and Netflix. The primary Oxenfree sport is at present accessible to Netflix subscribers as a free obtain.
