


Oxenfree, the original, is pretty low-cost if you’re interested in the genre. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals launches next year, giving you plenty of time to finish the first if you haven’t already There’s weird time travel stuff, things that happen when you enter the old mining town of Garland, and something called Time Tears, but that’s all a story for another day. The narrative here resolves around a “robust conversation system” and a “radio that tunes into supernatural signals.” We don’t have much more information on the story, characters, and villains…but that’s all we have for now. Riley’s job as the freshly-hired research assistant is to plant radio transmitters in certain areas then report what they collect, which was totally fine until things started getting a little odd. TVs turn on and off, planes lose radar, and radio stations can’t break through the static.

There are unnaturally occurring electromagnetic waves that have been interfering with gear and radio equipment in the town. As a Camena native, she bounced between cities and jobs trying to figure out what direction to take her life, though now she’s wound up back in her old hometown as an entry-level environmental researcher. Riley moved away from home at the first opportunity, as her father was a veteran and her mother was absent. Riley, on the other hand, “had that moment long ago” and isn’t quite sure she made the right choices. In the first Oxenfree, the characters were just getting ready to leave high school and had yet to make some of life’s biggest decisions. Riley Poverly, the star of Oxenfree II, is showcased in the trailer with a flashlight, a “snazzy” yellow vest, and has already made some of life’s toughest decisions.
