Cursed 2

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Search an abandoned town for a lost friend, and fight what lives there now.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam, itch.io
Price: Free
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (95% of 273 reviews); 4.6 of 5 on itch.io (18 ratings)
Length: about 10 hours
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: click to move between scenes, look at and use things, and attack in real-time fights; manage the inventory.
Made by: Disaster Squad Productions
Released: 2019

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What frightens An abandoned town where hundreds of bodies stand impaled on pikes, corpses lie in the buildings and unholy creatures attack in real time while you search for a missing childhood friend.
Content: corpses, impaled bodies, blood, monsters, violence.

Cursed 2 is a free first-person point-and-click horror adventure with real-time combat, in the manner of Uninvited and Last Half of Darkness. You search a desolate, abandoned town for traces of your childhood friend, solving puzzles, fighting unholy creatures and uncovering why the town was left empty.

About Cursed 2

Cursed 2 is the second game of the Cursed series by Disaster Squad Productions, set ten years after the first. Cursed came out in 2009. Work on the sequel started in 2011 but only really got going in August 2018, after interest from YouTube, and the game was finished in April 2019. It reached Steam in April 2022 as a free game, and it's also on itch.io (name your own price) and Game Jolt. A 2023 update redrew every background for widescreen and added an extras menu with galleries and a Hardcore mode.

The setup is simple. Years ago a girl called Jennifer got lost overnight in an old mine shaft. She was found, but the town was never right again: people moved away or just vanished, until it stood almost empty. You're a former resident who comes back looking for a childhood friend. What you find are bodies impaled on pikes around a tower, corpses where people fell, and things that shouldn't be alive.

It plays like the old Uninvited-style adventures. You click through first-person pixel-art scenes, read the descriptions, pick things up and use them to get further. The difference is the fighting. Creatures attack in real time and you fight back with whatever you hold, from a hammer to a shotgun, and you level up and fit gems into your skills so you can handle the bosses. Its maker counts around ten hours of play and several endings.

The art is crude and colourful, and a clown on strings or a knight with glowing eyes feels closer to a B-movie than to dread. The empty streets and the dead still give it a grim mood. If you grew up on shareware horror adventures and don't mind a hard fight now and then, it's worth the download.

How to play Cursed 2

Click the arrows and edges of the scene to move through the town.
Look at and pick up anything useful; read the descriptions for clues.
Use items from the inventory on the scene to open the way forward.
When a creature attacks, fight it in real time with the weapon you hold.
Level up, collect better equipment and take on the bosses to reach one of the endings.

Screenshots

Cursed 2 screenshot: rows of bodies impaled on pikes under a blood-red sky beside a stone tower, with the caption that hundreds of unidentified bodies surround it

Cursed 2 screenshot: a giant boss made of fused human faces fires a yellow beam from its mouth as the player aims a shotgun

Cursed 2 screenshot: a clown hanging from puppet strings with a knife, hit in the face by the player's hammer

Cursed 2 screenshot: a duel with a teal armoured knight with glowing red eyes, the player holding a sword and shield

Cursed 2 screenshot: an empty church with pews, a candlelit altar and a pipe organ on the balcony above

Cursed 2 screenshot: the player's gloved hand holds up a crucifix in a dark blue hallway leading to a staircase

Cursed 2 screenshot: the town map held in bandaged hands, with a farm, a bar, a church, a petrol pump and a tower checked off in red

Tips

Check the map often. The town is large, and the map marks the places you have already been.
Read every description: the text often hints at what an object is for.
Strengthen yourself before a boss, because fights are hard.
Hardcore mode in the extras menu wipes your save when you die and lets you carry only one healing potion. Finish the normal game first.
The original Cursed and Cursed 3 are also on Steam, if you want the whole trilogy.

Questions

Is Cursed 2 free?

Yes. It is free on Steam, and a name-your-own-price download on itch.io.

How long is Cursed 2?

Its maker says around ten hours.

Does Cursed 2 have multiple endings?

Yes, according to its maker.

Do I need to play Cursed first?

It takes place ten years after the first game, but its search for a missing friend stands on its own.

What languages is Cursed 2 in?

English, Russian, Ukrainian, German and Portuguese. On itch.io and Game Jolt each language is a separate download.

What is Hardcore mode?

A mode added in the 2023 update and opened from the extras menu. Dying wipes the save, levelling up no longer heals you, you may carry one healing potion and a cursed ring that drains health stays in your inventory. Finishing it gives a new ending.