With some of the puzzles, I get the feeling acid should have been provided in order to get what the idea is. Hints are extremely unhelpful most of the time. "It looks like this is not setup correctly" isn't actually a hint...

An adequate enough sequel and an alright game. If you were excited by the idea of exploring the spaceship in the last game, this one will give you what was promised. It's not graphically much better than the first game, still looking like it's either a mobile port or decades old, but you know that just from the store page, and that's not where the meat of the game is anyway.

The switch from intricate objects to more escape room like designs is an idea that fares similarly here as it does in the room series. It's not really all that much better or worse. Rooms give more of a sense of exploration and more puzzle variety, but you lose the sense of intimate focus on a single object.

Speaking of the objects, they're somehow less alien here than they were previously. In the previous game each one felt almost magical, where here the spaceship has a cool design, but the things you interact with are a little more steampunk and it feels like this could be a human spaceship from a far future alternate reality setting rather than something truly alien.

The trade off is that the puzzles are better. The things you can interact with more clear and intuitive, the solutions more comprehensible once you figure them out. I won't say it's easier, that's not totally accurate, but for better or worse there's less "moon logic" that would make you wonder how the devs thought you'd figure it out without hints.

If all there was was trying to puzzle your way into fully repairing the ship the way you pieced objects together at the museum I'd call the game much improved, but there's an additional element other than the puzzles here, being the story.

The writing isn't great. While the letters and notes from the previous game provided a lot of the unique charm and mystery while contributing to the somewhat uneasy atmosphere, every time there was dialogue or notes in this game it took me out of the experience completely.

That's right, there's dialogue in this game, with other livings things, which seems totally out of genre, and spoils the atmosphere and tone. If that dialogue was good it might make up for that fact, but the dialogue is not good. Both the notes and dialogue seem noticeably more poorly written than the letters from the last game. There's no obvious errors but it feels like placeholder content done by coders instead of something done by an actual writer. It's cheesy and almost goofy most of the time, a total departure from the unsettling, horror adjacent redactions of the last game.

In all it feels like while the puzzles and actual game section have gotten better, all the parts that were good about the last game, like the atmosphere, writing, and worldbuilding are worse. If you like this genre of game and liked the first one, maybe pick it up on sale, but my recommendation here is a lot less enthusiastic than the last entry.

Overall, a great sequel to the first game.

Unlike the first game where you are basically fixed in one spot most of the time, this game allows you to move freely in small areas. The environments were well-done. The plot picks up where the last story ends and is mostly followed via letters and the walkie-talkie, which is a new feature.

The puzzles were very creative and fun and, for the most part, were logical and solvable without the (useless) hints or a walkthrough. The cube puzzle on Chapter 7 was confusing even though I understood the logic of it. This game has several "alignment" puzzles where you need to move pieces into the correct place, but when you move 1 piece, 2 other ones move too. I dread these puzzles, so no replay for me. There were a couple of bugs here and there, such as the organ keys working before I opened the cover, and having to re-do the last puzzle in Chapter 7. These are just minor annoyances and I still would recommend this game.