Spirits of the radio

A spooky summertime journey is in retailer for July. Evening Faculty Studio’s Oxenfree II: Misplaced Indicators is scheduled to launch on July 12, 2023.

The follow-up to 2016’s Oxenfree sees protagonist Riley Poverly return to her hometown in Camena. As a newly employed analysis assistant, she’s investigating the native phenomena that’s been interfering with electronics and radios. Her job is to arrange radio transmitters round sure areas and report the information. Needs to be straightforward, proper?

Properly, get a cult and a few spirits concerned, and also you’ve received a protracted night time forward. Very similar to the primary Oxenfree, decisions will form your story and future, as you take care of the unusual oddities creating all these disturbances. As proven in a trailer throughout at present’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, issues could not at all times go as deliberate.

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Oxenfree II sees Evening Faculty returning to the spooky 2016 journey, following 2019’s partying romp by way of the underworld in Afterparty and some different tasks.

In the meantime, it’s additionally Evening Faculty’s latest undertaking beneath Netflix, because the studio was acquired by the streaming large in 2021. It’s good to see that the acquisition didn’t cancel the studio’s plans for a sequel on the time.

It’s thrilling to see Oxenfree II get a date locked in, and to have it throughout the summer season too. Positive, the unique was launched in January 2016, however it’s a distinctly “summer season” sport to me. It’s a few bunch of angsty, worrying teenagers on their remaining summer season trip, and completely price your time forward of the sequel’s launch. And with a July launch, the sequel can also be fortunately avoiding the site visitors jam of video games in June.

Oxenfree II: Misplaced Indicators hits Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PS5, PC by way of Steam, and the Netflix platform on July 12, 2023.