True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 (the Sequel) Released on Steam

You can find it here.

I think this game will eventually make its way to Big Fish, so I am going to wait. I did want to let others know, though, that at long last the game is out, just in case you wanted to pick it up now.

Thanks Marian! I held off for ages on buying the first game since I read it didn't have a proper ending. Eventually Steam had it so cheap I couldn't resist. Of course, I have not played it yet anyway.

If anyone gets the game from Steam and plays it, I will be interested to hear what they think. Hard to believe that the first game came out on Big Fish in 2014. It's been a long wait.

Thanks for the news, Marian!

Ana

I never heard of this game. I found both on Steam and couldn't resist buying them. Just started the first one and think I'm going to love them. Thanks Marian.

The first game was really loved by our forum members here, TLC - I think you will enjoy it.

And by the way, just to let people know, the first game is also available on Big Fish here.

I also read elsewhere that the developer hopes to ultimately make this series a trilogy.

I also read on their Facebook page that they were going to be doing updates to the game I think I will wait for a while and let them get the game updated before buying

I guess I'm almost a quarter of the way through. Judging from the directions, the game also can be played with a controller.

I'm so thoroughly hooked that I only stopped because I became thoroughly stumped and bamboozled yet I refuse to look at the guide* because thus far True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part Two is worth savoring and keeps me from reading the news while biting my fingernails.

The graphics surpass those in the first game by several powers, and the adventuring is more complex. The set-up is reminiscent of the opening of an MCF I liked in that a team of paranormal investigators preceded our heroine's mysterious appearance. The setting is an ostensibly long abandoned Art Deco asylum. Medical grunge is not slowing me down. That is saying something; in general I favor beauty over poking through detritus in and around a derelict institution, never mind that architecturally the buildings have good bones. Plenty of real bones here, heh, heh, heh.

*Come to think of it, I'm not sure there is a guide yet. I'll check.

That sounds great, 8dognight. I also read that, unlike the first game, the sequel has no hidden object scenes.

Sounds real good. I'd like to know if it has some type of proper ending (so that IF the 3rd part is never released...). I prefer to be forewarned!

That I don't know yet, Oldbroad.

The first game had an excellent Twilight Zone twist ending that stood on its own narrative legs and simultaneously teased a sequel.

Oh, so the first one did have some type of ending? I thought it just left you hanging somehow.

If Goblinz had not teazed--spelled with a "z" in honor of the company name--with a phrase on the order of "to be continued" at the conclusion of Part One, it would have stood on its twisted, curlicued, and spiraling own much as Shadow Shelter from Nevosoft does.

Thank you for that information!

Oh, I didn't know the first one was at BigFish. I'm surprised I never found it there.

I recall playing the first one. Good and spooky. I'm in on this one.

I have True Fear : Forsaken Souls in my Big Fish collection.

Is this sequel not coming to Big Fish then ??

EDIT :

Sorry .... Just saw your earlier post, Marian !!

Do not ignore the journal which contains the case file, clues, or journey notes. All are helpful and interesting.

Thanks Marian. I was just wondering about this game. As always, you are on it.

You are welcome.

I would like to say that looking over the Steam forum for the game, there appear to be some bugs that players may or may not encounter. Just a heads up for those who would prefer to wait a while for the patch that will almost certainly be released.

Marian, I just looked at Goblinz's Facebook page this morning. Facebook is not something I use; I got off in late 2016. Anyway, I avoided signing up, read the Goblinz page, and learned they made a HOG for BFG in 2012 called Mystery Valley, which is not related to True Fear: Forsaken Souls but was quite successful. The Goblinz website has a link to BFG to try the game for PC so I'm downloading. HOGs aren't my thing but every now and then one grabs me so I'm giving it a whirl.

8dognight, it was released in 2010 and we announced it here.

Ana

That’s why I’m waiting they talk about the bugs and the updates that are coming

There's actually a reference to Mystery Valley in the original True Fear: Forsaken Souls. You see a book in the kitchen called Mystery Valley and a comment is made about it.

Mystrery Valley was a great game. Think I'll play it again. Thanks guys

Ana and Marian, thanks for the information.

Steam has a long discussion of what is going on in the game from people who obviously pay more attention to story lines in games than I generally do so I have started over. This is one to make notes on both for puzzles and continuity.

From the thread, I gleaned that was the inspiration for the very talented person who wrote the game through all three episodes in around 30 hours. I definitely got a along with a spooky feeling that reminds me Dean Koontz's Christopher Snow novels, two of my favorites of his books.

I bought both on Steam. The first one ran great and loved it. The second one has a bug, where I can't use inventory items and asking for a refund.

Sorry about that, TLC. I am sure the game will be patched but if you don't want to wait for that, a refund is the best thing to do.

It said it was patched. They gave me a refund. I'll wait till its on BigFish.

It sounds like the game is probably going to need more than one patch, then. Glad you got a refund.

I recollect reading that multiple patches are expected not just for glitches but to add content.

The first time, where I got part way through before deciding to start over, I had to skip a puzzle nested in an interesting voyage through staff email because I encountered a small glitch when I
Other than that, the cursor will sometimes become invisible when I forget to keep dragging around puzzle pieces, This is easy to fix. Just keep moving the mouse until the diary in the bottom left corner lights up, then click. The diary will pop up, so click on the X at the top right of the diary to minimize it and the cursor will reappear in the puzzle on the screen.

The main creative force behind the game is Dimmie Azu. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 is now on my top five list of casual games and may make my top ten of all adventure games.

My initial response to

I checked the opening screen and I don't see a guide. The extra episode screen tells me that one is coming in an update.

Nevertheless I'm glad to have jumped on Part 2 at release.

I haven't enjoyed a casual game this much in I don't know how long, and as I mentioned Part 2 stands up fairly well against most regular adventure games. I get the impression that Dimmie Azu has distanced himself from casual adventure game writing and planning in the seven years intervening between the marathon 30 hours that produced the initial story or bare bones design document or whatever amalgam it was. Fingers crossed Goblinz will finish and release the third game. We all know how ill-fated such plans can be. Holly Stonehouse may wind up chained in the bowels of a corporate dungeon next to Gabriel Knight.*

Oldbroad, Part 2 has a less decisive ending than Part 1. Although the Part 2 ending is foreshadowed, at least in retrospect I can see it was and by definition foreshadowing is retrospective anyway, don't expect motivations and explanations to be tidied up. so if you figure them out, please, post.

I think I know

*ETA: Chris Jones and Access Software eventually paroled Tex Murphy so if Goblinz doesn't get sold or dissolved or forever lost to other genres, I'm thinking TFFS 3 has a pretty good chance.

Thanks for all your info 8dognight. I haven't even bought Part 2 yet and still haven't played Part 1 either. I don't necessarily care about a "decisive" ending. I just don't like a game with NO ending (such as Runaway 2). Some people thought Syberia 3 ended on a cliffhanger but I thought it was properly finished and left room for another game.

The game was patched again yesterday. So I bought it again and its working now.

I hope it will be trouble free for you now, TLC.

Thanks Marian. I emailed the company told them about my problem and they said they'd be releasing another patch yesterday.

In True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part One, some breaking the fourth wall humor I don't remember noticing before: among the books on the mantelpiece are the following titles: Emblems: Saving the Lack of Imagination; Emblem Locked Furniture: Where Do You Buy Those?; and Emblem Locked Doors: Really?

Now that's funny. I don't remember seeing those either.

Sincerely hope that by the time this game is available from Big Fish it is totally bug free !!

I agree, Mad. I do think odds are that it will be fine by the time it gets to Big Fish.

Mad & Marian, it seems to be running fine now. So I have a feeling it will, when it gets to BigFish.

That's what we will all want !!

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Hi Leeana, we have been talking about this game in this Casual Games thread, so I have moved your post over here so that other players can read it.

Thank You Im so Sorry

No need to be sorry! I am really glad that you posted about the game.

I will be picking it up for sure when it arrives on Big Fish.

The journalist leaves

As far as I recall that very concrete reference is not explained or alluded to elsewhere.

Can someone else who has played through clear this up or tell me if another reference or the object itself exists in the game world?



I did not see the object mentioned in the Steam discussions; maybe I missed it.

ETA: The journalist

ETA again: All those in both games have some significance.

Facebook probably has a multitude of theories I haven't so much as glanced at and won't as a matter principle. I feel hypocritical enough after looking at it once.

Even so, I have now read so many suggestions on both games on Steam I am surprised I have not seen one--inspired by Hinduism, Terry Pratchett, and Stephen King--positing that Grandpa David was a demiurge and had custody of the elephants supporting the earth from the back of the world tortoise.

I apologize for going on and on. I seem to have the caught the bug.

In Act 3 of Part 1 after returning to Holly's childhood home, we apparently are adjacent to somewhere else,

I haven't seen discussion of this and my eyes aren't all that sharp, so if you have an explanation, please, fill me in.

(Description of screen edited for clarity)

And I am sorry that I can't comment on any of this, as I am still waiting to play the game.

I was asking about Part 1.

Ah, my mistake. Unfortunately I would need to replay Part One in order to comment on your questions. I have only played it the one time when it was first released. I only remember bits and pieces of it now. Will have to replay it in the coming weeks.

I haven't played either game yet but I'm quite sure I would never observe any of this. I just play.

In TFFS2 well into Act 2, the author through his player character remarks when she picks up an emblem: