Please don't buy this; Buy Still Life 1 instead.

[Caspian Roach]

This game is broken. Nonsensical logic, bugs, pointless and frustrating inventory system, idiotic plot and only one big location for the whole game (and about 3 small one-room ones). It is impossible to finish or even progress in this game without using the walkthrough because everything is poorly explained and you are rarely ever told what are you supposed to do now. Combine it with objects that suddenly become usable after you went to other room and came back with no visual indication and it's a recipe for a headache. Oh yeah, and Steam Overlay doesn't work.

Almost all the new characters have poor voice acting (english) and there's virtually no puzzles in the whole game, all you're going to do is search the rooms endlessly in hopes or finally finding something to make sense/progress the story at least a little bit.

This sequel is just bad. I found the original game quite fun and only had to look at the walkthrough once near the end (to find something sharp to cut one certain thing out).

Please don't even play this game, even if you just want to know the answer to the first one's ending. And really, Still Life 1's cliffhanger wasn't even that mysterious, you probably guessed the answer to it yourself already as it was telegraphed at you the whole game.

tl;dr: Still Life 1 = good, worth a play. Still Life 2 = bad, not worth the play at all.

[foxyfifty]

I must say, did enjoy Still Life 1 more enjoyable. But this has been a challenging game that I enjoyed almost until the end. Cannot finish game as the rooms have gone black and see nothing but a bunch of doors. Doubt I would get an answer to fix this, but I have no regrets about buying it.

[Inspector Gadget]

Is it still broke? April 24

[henkkass]

I like this game

[Kaoru]

I finished this today and I kinda agree how things are poorly explained, and on top of that there are so much timed scenes! I DID have to use walkthrough to do this. I actually found the plot ok, thats what kept me playing the game, even though I ran into 3 bugs that forced me to reload my saved file.

[Andeddu]

I finished the first game a couple of days ago and have just started this one. It's decent enough so far, I've only just finished playing as Hernandez for now (hope she's okay :p) and am looking forward to pushing the story forward. Even if it doesn't completely satisfy I cant really complain, I did only spend $2.99 for the series. Hopefully I won't run into any show stopping bugs, that'd piss me off!

[Caspian Roach]

Originally posted by Hunted:

@OP What does it matter to you whether people play it or not? I'm still baffled as to why people insist on creating these bizarre emotional title threads. If it was a slow poisonous food then go for it, plead people not to buy it, but a game?

Because it's a disappointing and severe drop in quality from the first game. I felt my time with the game was not pleasant at all and I was patiently waiting for the game to finally become at least tolerable but it never did. There's a LOT of better games to spend your time on.

[Finbar III]

It definitely wasn't as good as the first game - both story and gameplay wise - but it's worth a play if just to get a sense of closure to the series, and there's a couple of nice flashbacks to reveal the original game's killer.

[henkkass]

Your last sentence is true about the killer

[Ch0plol]

That's dissapointing to hear. I just finished the first one in one session and I actually really liked it. Will be starting the second in the next few days, but it sucks to hear that it's a real drop in quality for people who liked the first.

[henkkass]

I cant say, that the second game is a dissapointment. I havent completed it yet,but so far i like this game very much. The flashbacks are very nice.

[Oh Rats!]

--POTENTIAL SPOILER--


Compared to it's predecessors it is too "normal". Post Mortem clearly had a spooky atmosphere, and some occult murders. Still Life was awesome! The killers victorian style, and his M.O. Still Life 2 is kinda boring, just some dude kidnapping women, torturing them 'n stuff... Not too original, I must admit.

[Kill3r]

I kind of agree with the OP, SL2 is worse than the first. I came across a showstopper in the first minutes. Luckily, I had saved the game a few minutes earlier. But now, I've reached the part where you have to search the killer's house, spent a couple of hours here and then encountered another walkthrough breaker bug. And this time, my last save was 30 minutes before.
So I gave up. Anyway, the game itself isn't that bad, but if you want to finish it, save quite often !

[dubesor]

I just finished this game. I played Still Life 1 last week so I wanted to see the 2nd game. Absolutely terrible. I really had to force myself finishing it. At first, I though hey cool, Inventory system, and the kit system etc. But very soon, once you reach that 1 place where you will stay forever the game becomes worse and worse to the point where it is 100% frustration and 0% fun. The engine is TERRIBLE, the camera is annoying, the movement and animations are tediously slow and the inventory system only makes you walk back and forth 10000 times during your game. Everything about this game is just terrible. I finished it 20 minutes ago and can't say I ever played a worse Adventure game. The plot also is pretty laughable. Oh and lastbut not least the many bugs I ran into where you have to reload because you are stuck in certain views. Have fun if you didn't save recently. Ah, almost forgot the locations. Searching 1 house over and over and over and over again for more than 10 hours is just not fun. It is annoying, tedious and terrible.

[Caspian Roach]

Originally posted by Specta:

Well said

It always surprises me that so many people lack the intelligence to realise that different people like different things and just because you don’t like some thing it does not mean the next person will feel the same .

Always such emotion in these walls of texts like they just gone thorough a major life ordeal , steam is full of drama queens and do not buy it because I don’t like it threads. I read these threads in the voice of a little kid who just had his pocket money stolen and has ran to his mummy to explain what happened , So many tears

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/still-life/user-reviews
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/still-life-2/user-reviews

The sequel betrays your trust after a great first installment. It's nowhere near as good. And even the "green" reviews still mention that the game fails to achieve the high mark set by its predecessor. It is a disappointment and I want to save people who got their hopes up by a reasonably well made game to get frustrated by this mindfield of a game.
And it's funny how you already have an opinion on the said game while not having played it on Steam yet. Just do them in order and you will understand what I mean and see how I was trying to save you time lost miserably.

I had to finish a game because I'm sort of a completionist and I regret ever doing that, because it doesn't get better.

[Bilstar]

This is just the info I was after. I think I'll give it a miss. Good discussion though folks.