Huh. I wish I got more out of this game. It isn’t bad by any stretch; the atmosphere, which was a strength of the original Oxenfree, is even better here, with lovely sound design and pretty artwork, and nothing in the story jumped out at me as especially objectionable, although ymmv on that front. It all just feels very...slight? It’s a short game, there aren’t many characters, the gameplay is exactly what you would expect, and the story holds only a few mild revelations (even fewer if you’ve played the first game). Everything feels made on a miniature scale. Maybe I shouldn’t have played this in such close proximity to Pentiment, which has the density of a good novel, and allowed me to invest in the characters on a deeper level. Oxenfree II feels closer in spirit to a Netflix special. It looks and sounds good, but there is never enough substance or risk-taking to really wow you. Oh well.