A significant improvement over episode 1. The setting is way more unnerving and realized this time. Being home alone and hunted is terrifying on its own, but this game does a better highlighting and utilizing its setting. You really feel alone and trapped in the world. And in the first episode you could contact your family. Here you are truly isolated.

I find this game to actually have good scares. But it isn't perfect either. The ending is pretty unceremonious. It's also just a tad too slow. I prefer when most media is slow to build up to the suspenseful parts, but I think this game kinda drags its feet a bit too long. The tone was already set up well by that point.

Still, a really solid outing from this Dev. Huge improvement in production and pacing and story telling. And the best part? This energy carries over into the next episode.

Fears to Fathom: Norwood Hitchhike is a improvement over Home Alone, it has a better story, better narrative, better characters, and it is longer, and it is more fleshed out, and they build out the scenario a bit more.

Even though it is an improvement over Home Alone, Norwood Hitchhike still didn't click to me. The atmosphere, and the setting isn't as scary as Home Alone, and because of that, it does greatly lose its scare factor for me.

It's a sure improvement, but it's still a game I just find to be okay. I do hear the series does continuously get better, so I hope the following installments are better, because this was an improvement, at the very least.

Overall: 6/10