It's hard to believe this game was released in 2015. It doesn't look better than the first game and everything else in it is worse.

We get a similar story about supernatural powers and nazis and all that stuff. It's fun, but it's overshadowed by questionable design choices and poor controls. I don't know why developers decided to mess up the controls. I understand that developers wanted to make it all 3D but my question is why? If you don't have a huge budget why do something you can't actually do? It would look and play much better if it would be all 2D.
The game was designed for controllers but even if use a controller the controls are wonky and annoying. Why?!
Another stupid decision - qte's. Why?!
And yet another ugly thing about this game - cut scenes. For ♥♥♥♥♥ sake, i keep repeating myself over and over again. If you don't have good artists and a big budget don't try to act as a big studio. The cut scenes are meme worthy. They're so bad that you start thinking the game was made in 1998. Why?! Why not take a must simpler path - draw a comics-style cut scenes. It's cheap, doesn't require too much effort and looks good. Even Hitman 2 uses similar technique.

Puzzles are pretty nice, you'll need to spend some time to solve them. Also like in a previous games there many locations but some of them rather feel annoying than fun.
How could you ruin a pretty good game is beyond me. After playing the first game i thought this will a start of a wonderful journey, that developers will improve, but we've got what we've got.

If you enjoyed the first game and you're prepared to overlook many things, you're prepared to accept that this one is worse it may be worth getting on sale. But if you're looking for a quality point&click game then look elsewhere.

Pros

• Nice story
  
• Some good puzzles

Cons

• Poor graphics
  
• Bad controls
  
• Half of the game feels boring
  
• Cut scenes is a bad joke

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this second instalment is not at all as good as the first Lost Horizon. The money spent in developing the game was too little or the staff was too tired. Graphics are just passable. Story is sufferable. and Bugs are plenty. Its is not as humorous as the first. Considering the price and the competition, or lack of, its OK.

As a fan of Lost Horizon 1 I was hugely disappointed in this game. It was boring, the characterizations from the first were completely different, and the fun romantic history of the original was gone. The puzzles are often buggy or random, and even the built-in walkthrough is wrong at points. It was also quite short. Absolutely not recommended and very disappointed, as I thoroughly enjoy most adventure games. Save often - there is no autosave, and when a puzzle bugs out and you have to restart, you'll want those save games. Very disappointed.

Disappointed, I enjoyed the first Lost Horizon game, and was working my way through this new one until I got to the motorcycle chase. With the combination of a sluggish cursor and my poor reflex time, I can't complete it and move on to the next part of the game. There seems to be no way to skip it,so my game ends here. I buy point and click games because I'm not particularly fast, so adding something like this without an opt out means I've wasted my money.

I bought this game despite the negative reviews, after hesitating. I liked the predecessor and I really enjoyed this one so far. The story is good, the graphics are nice and the tasks are motivating. The locations are nice, varied and captivating. There are some glitches now and then with the animations, but they are not disturbing. I do not like the reaction-parts of the gameplay, fortunately there are not many in the first four chapters. I play the game with mouse only, just as classic adventure games are meant to be played and it works perfectly.

I am not too picky when it comes to adventure games, willing to overlook convoluted solutions to mundane situations (exacerbated when the games have realistic-ish settings), non-existant character animations and the occasional writing fumble. Deep Silver have generally been pretty good at those - solid, middle of the road games that scratch the itch I've nursed ever since the first Broken Sword. Lost Horizon 1 was, for my money, the best of their bunch. Some would argue the previous game they made, Secret Files 2, was better. Of the Secret Files games, I preferred Secret Files 1 for its mystery but even I have to admit it was hilariously unpolished. So when they put out a sequel with a really interesting 'start of the cold war' setting I was super excited. I thought, if 1 was a total knock off of Indiana Jones, then 2 might be a moment to shine by being a better post WW2 Indy adventure than crystal skull was. Sadly I was wrong. This game feels badly unfinished - the character models are all off, the writing (never the Studio's strong suit) is sloppier than usual, there are a number of display errors, and an odd mix of Cartoony and realisitc art - a problem in the equally weak Secret Files 3. It is tragic because some of the settings are stunning and the characters all have major potential - we have glimpses of what an older Fenton could have been like if written better, and his daughter Gwen is everything you would expect when the game lets her be. The story is pretty workaday too, and again, there is just more potential there. There are some really kitchy make work puzzles with lots of back tracking, and none of the quirky and irreverant puzzles in the first game. Some of the puzzles are also let down by awkward camera angles. And that is a shame too because right at the end they introduce a left of field puzzle and art style that really comes alive, is more interesting than the 'distant past' mechanic at the end of the first game and has a really nice connection to the opening. Though, I hasten to add that the somewhat out of nowhere kung fu showdown at the end of the first game is an addition which I do miss.

In short by god I want to like this game but feel like I am simply not allowed to. Some spark has gone out of the team making these games. And that is a real shame.

I am afraid to say i cannot recommend this game for more than maybe 3-4 Euros / Dollars.

Lost Horizon was an amazing 2D Puzzle game with some nice RPG elements a la Indiana Jones.
The backgrounds were handdrawn, the animations kind of fluent and the voicecast was very good.
The puzzles didnt always go with logic but were fun to play. The music was amazing and I wished Animation Arts
and Deep Silver would have kept up with their good work in the past.

Lost Horizon 2 may offer some nice sceneric locations from time to time and I was Glad to have Fenton and his Daughter with me. The Story started off nicely but soon I found the soundeffects and the cutscenes werent going anywhere near its predecessor. It rather went the opposite direction. Cutscenes are looking very bad and animations not smooth at all.

The puzzles havent really improved but have become a bit more annoying to take controll of a wheel to steer or a swtich to move.

The story kinda gets lost during half of the gameplay and many questions are left unanswered. Also not much is mentioned what happened with Fenton and Kim after the first game ( I wont spoiler here either).

I also hoped that gameplay somehow would have some improvments or some developement but not much new was added.

An ingame walkthrough can guide you through every puzzle if you get stuck at some point which is a positive aspect but maybe the only one that I would say is an improvement at all.

It was anyway hard to top the original Lost Horizon since it was a very beautiful and entertaining game but somehow the developers of LH 2 totally fell off a cliff.

If you want a recommendation then I can suggest you Lost Horizon 1 if you havent bought it already!

DO NOT GET THIS GAME.
Cons:
* Graphics are *worse* than Lost Horizon I. Why?
* The story is weak. Characters, annoying
* Puzzles are mundane, and have no connection to the storyline, whatsoever
This game has the terminal illness called 'generic puzzles'. Since it has no plot, it resorts to making everything difficult, to stall for time. Towards the end it gives up any pretense, and all the puzzles are just some generic **** you've seen anywhere
* Some of the puzzles are *pure* guesswork. No logic to them. At one point you'd have to go through all the 5x5x4 options of a certain files cabinet to find the viking artefact. Why? No reason. Just stalling
* Moreover, tons of useless items you never use
* Finally, I couldn't finish it. Towards the end there's a bug in the rune-puzzle, where the door sometimes doesn't open .

Pros:
* Decent voice acting?

Do not buy this game, just stay with your memories from Lost Horizon I. This one is a complete waste of time, in any adventure-game wise prespective

not worth thirty pound .Its too short. Get it ONLY during a sale IF you really must get it at all. I do like the first lost horizon in many ways but this just isnt the same. some of the puzzles are SO ilogical that no wonder thay put in a walkthrough in - game ,for instance (not trying to add spoilers so I wont give out too much information) you are in the forest looking for a back entrance you KNOW you are in the right spot no doubt at all but NOTHING happens ZILCH no indication to point you in the right direction either . I only found out what to do by looking at the walkthrough there are too many instances like this that I just got annoyed with the game .some good graphics however commenting on the sounds now in ALL the scenes where theres water falling from the rocks above you dont hear ANY water!! not a trickle! like I said good graphics but dont expect good puzzles because you will end up looking at the walkthrough some of the time. Good story some good voice acting too. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would say a 6 maybe 6 and a half.
the pc system requirements say this needs at LEAST a 2 gb memory for the GRAPHICS CARD but I have a 1 gb graphics card a gtx 550 ti and I have no graphical problem at all. Im only playing this game for the story and the cool locations with mystic ruins etc NOT for anything else and certainly NOT for the stupid illogical puzzles. This game wasn't ready too be released when it did it needed more testers.

I really enjoyed this game. The graphics were beautiful. The story was captivating. Exploring old houses is especially fun for me. I experienced no technical issues throughout gameplay. In the style of point and click adventures, there was a lot of thinking to be done in this game.Most of the puzzles were easy. I would say the one at the end with the Nordic Boat was particularly difficult. I really enjoyed that the characters travelled all over the world. Some of the landscapes were very beautiful. I really enjoyed the fact that autumn leaves fell throughout certain segments of the game. It reminded me of another of my most favourite games,Black Mirror III. The learning curve seemed to fall on easy for most of the game until you reached the final chapters. It then seemed to soar up to rather difficult in certain areas. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys point and click adventures with a pseudo-historical narrative. Since Germany isn't allowed to utilise the swastika in games they chose a different symbol. This didn't take away from the overall story regarding World War II. It helped you understand the severe terror these people went through especially in their hiding from the Nazi's. In a way it reminded me of when I visited Anne Frank's house in The Netherlands.