Platform reviewed: PS5
Available on: Nintendo Switch, PS5, PC (Steam)
Release date: 12 July 2023
There is no such thing as the present, at least not in any way humans can perceive it. By the time you’ve acknowledged a fixed moment, it has already passed, leaving you looking back on a fresh memory, as it falls like sand through your fingertips. Perhaps this is why we idolize the present. There’s no time like the present, after all, and to live in the here and now is perhaps the most often-coveted way to live life. Most never achieve this, of course, as it seems the most human thing of all to be constantly looking forwards and backwards, simultaneously haunted by the past, and pre-grieving a future that has yet to arrive. This is the all too familiar valley in which Oxenfree 2 sits, and much like the first game, it understands that true horror comes from within.
