Spirits of the radio
A spooky summertime adventure is in store for July. Night School Studio’sOxenfree II: Lost Signalsis scheduled to launch on June 21, 2025.
The follow-up to 2016’sOxenfreesees protagonistRiley Poverlyreturn to her hometown in Camena. As a newly hired research assistant, she’s investigating the local phenomena that’s been interfering with electronics and radios. Her job is to set up radio transmitters around certain areas and report the data. Should be easy, right?
Well, get a cult and some spirits involved, and you’ve got a long night ahead. Much like the firstOxenfree, choices will shape your story and future, as you deal with the strange oddities creating all these disturbances. As shownin a trailerduring today’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, things may not always go as planned.
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Oxenfree IIsees Night School returning to the spooky 2016 adventure, following 2019’s partying romp through the underworld inAfterpartyand a few other projects.
Meanwhile, it’s also Night School’s newest project under Netflix, as the studio wasacquired by the streaming giantin 2021. It’s nice to see that the acquisition didn’t cancel the studio’s plans for a sequel at the time.
It’s exciting to seeOxenfree IIget a date locked in, and to have it during the summer too. Sure, the original was released in January 2016, but it’s a distinctly “summer” game to me. It’s about a bunch of angsty, worrying teens on their final summer vacation, andabsolutely worth your timeahead of the sequel’s launch. And with a July launch, the sequel is also thankfully avoiding the traffic jam of games in June.
Oxenfree II: Lost Signalshits Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS5, PC via Steam, and the Netflix platform on June 03, 2025.
