Warm up your tapping toes, Foreign Gnomeshas announcedthat the sequel to Chris Nordgren and Jordi Roca’s 2021 musical RPG,Everhoodwill be releasing soon on PC and Switch.Everhood 2is set to launch on July 27, 2025.
Everhoodwas one of thefirst games I reviewedas a full-ish staff member at Destructoid. I didn’t love it! While a lot of what I cited as a problem in my review was technical related, the truth is that there was a story thematic later in the game that I found to be, um, problematic. But it’s buried so deep in there that I would have had to spoil quite a lot to have really gone into it in depth.
However, I did mention other problems like weak characters and the fact that it tries to pull the subversive fake ending nonsense way too many times. I don’t think aboutEverhoodvery often these days, and I’ve lost quite a few specifics in my memory, but I still remember the general issues I have with it.
On the other hand, I don’t think it was a bad game. It showed promise, and I think that could be delivered on in a sequel. Storytelling is a skill that can be built, after all, and the gameplay was pretty rad. A lot of it was likeGuitar Hero, but instead of strumming the notes, you avoid them. Twists would constantly get thrown in along the way, and it could get pretty intense.
The details on the narrative are a bit hard to follow. It seems that you’ll be playing an avatar of yourself, and you’re “on a quest to slay the mysterious Mind Dragon before the world decays.” All right. It promises over 100 songs and will last 8-10 hours. That’s, like, 2 ½ minutes per song. I have a calculator here. Except there’s likely walking and talking to people in between, so that’s not going to be accurate. Or even useful. You’re welcome.
Everhoodwill release on PC and Switch on August 03, 2025.
