Like all Macventure games, this title can be incredibly frustrating! You WILL die......A lot! If you are familiar with Macventure games(and enjoyed ANY of them), then pick up this game! If you however have never played a Macventure game, or are easily angered/frustrated by games, then I would advise you to steer clear of this title(As well as all other Macventure games) until you have done some research.

This is worse than the first Deja Vu game and, like the original entry, doesn’t hold up at all. While I think a remake might be able to do something with the first game, I don’t think this one is salvageable.

I remember playing this on NES. I wish it were that version, I felt it was much improved. I find it hard to play this when I could just play the NES remake on a emulator...

This game is classic. Found myself laughing and laughing each time I did something stupid and random. I still remember playing the originals and brings back memories even in real life where I made similar choices. Be prepaid for MisAdventures!!

Hasnt aged very well, but this provided me with closure after playing this as a kid and never completing it.

Another good game, just like its prequel. I didn't care for the unwinnable situations you can get yourself in, however.

Tags: Adventure - WC - Walk Clicker
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Dialog window gets cropped. UI is dated and relies on an old OS to give engine to adventure. Try Kingsway instead for same idea in an RPG format.

Walk clickers are arguably the more primitive version of doing adventure games compared to classic point and click. Even walking simulators have the potential to be more fluid with their freeform environment navigation.

The stiff scripting required for progression, along with the insta-death pitfalls peppered all over hurt the experience.

The writing looked decent and the presentation was good for the time period.

The game has no audio either which further lowers the entertainment value.

This is utlimately a notalgia piece, or a museum exhibit of gaming era that has gone by. I prefer to archive the Macventure titles in my hidden library to give better visibility to more entertaining and better executed modern adventure games. The idea to open a browser window to see items when you for example open a container is a nice idea but better executed in kingsway.

So, I hate this less than the other MacVenture games so far, but I still hate it. The interface is fiddly, and the puzzles are so obtuse (Open a PHONE?) that even when I follow a walkthrough TO THE LETTER, I still CANNOT CLEAR THE GAME. Also the game started glitching where sometimes the cursor will not be aligned correctly, so I have to select just underneath an object vs. the expected active area, and sometimes this means I cannot do the action I intended.

About the best things are
+ you don't need to play Deja Vu I to "enjoy" Deja Vu II
+ some of the graphics are nice for the era it was created
+ the "timed death" is much more fair

Some lesser nitpicks include
- all the bills look identical, so you have to Examine each one individually, wasting a turn (sometimes the conductor will kick you off the train just for being ONE SECOND late paying him)
- the woman who goes around randomly beating on you is purely a nuisance and feels like a waste of resources
- confusing directions in the hotel, where going back and forth between the lobby and the casino are up-and-right to go one way and down to go back the same way
- just not really enjoyable

Instead, play something like Lamplight City, or any game by Wadjet Eye Games. Much more fun for your time spent.

A well made classic LOVE THIS GamE!! bring back my apple 2gs!

Déjà Vu II: MacVenture Series is an ancient game from 1988. It's a whopping 36 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware.

It's a sequel to "Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series" and suffers from all the same defects, lack of modernisation and so on. Once more, gameplay is a matter of Zork style text adventuring, "enhanced" by the Apple Macintosh OS's ability to display multiple windows on the same desktop (wow, such technology, it really is the 1980's). It was never a great game even for the Apple Mac, which never had great games anyway.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.

The game interface is mostly just text boxes/dialogs and features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/HTML games from the 1990s. While that might be fine for the 1990s, gaming has evolved a lot since then, the ATI Rage became mainstream in 1996... it's 2024, and that kind of thing just won't fly anymore, it's just not visually up to scratch.

The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it.

So, should you buy this game?

Déjà Vu II: MacVenture Series is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $3 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.