It gets dark too and it’s here where you’ll want to utilise the light from your smartphone to light the areas around you. She slightly jogs along, covering the map, examining objects and collecting quest items along the way expect to be found taking part in plenty of fetch quests as you go. The gameplay consists of controlling Linda in the third person, moving around the space. However, most of DreadOut 2 takes a linear approach, leaving you to do battle with big bad hosts via your phone. After the prologue, you find yourself in a small city and it all becomes a bit of an open-world adventure – walk around, accepting tasks and taking on jobs for people. By taking pictures you can hurt them, banishing them forevermore. It’s the camera which is vital in DreadOut 2, and as you happen upon something that is not quite right, you can move into photo mode and see the spirits in their dimension. Your only tool is a smartphone camera that acts as your torch, instruction list, and also photo mode. People are hiding in lockers, a strange voice is taunting you. You’re in a school and something terrible is happening.

This is a third-person adventure, as you play the part of 17-year-old Linda, the survivor from first time around, as you are dropped into a prologue. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t played the original though, because the developers have seen fit to include a handy story update from that game in the menus.

DreadOut 2 is an Indonesian survival horror game a direct sequel to the first in the series.

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