The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
Deceptive Games Ltd. · 2018 · Indie, Action, Adventure, Horror, Puzzle
PC
Very Positive93% · 83
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About The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews is a first person mystery puzzle game set in a secret remote location, and tells the story of three individuals as they try to escape their mysterious captors.
With little memory of how they got there, three people awake in adjacent cells. A voice bellows from a wall speaker. "Welcome to your trial - Your goal is simple, escape or die".
This is the story of Samantha Blake - a distraught mother who lost her child during complex brain surgery, Benjamin Clarke - an alcoholic whose life was turned upside down with the death of his wife in a horrific car accident and Stephen Parfitt - a college professor and author who is starting to give up on life with an ever changing World.
Three strangers - forced to work together to survive captivity - each searching the answers, the redemption and the peace of mind that they so desire.
Can you unravel the mystery behind your captivity, and most importantly, can you escape this treacherous and sinister ordeal?
Remember: No-one is safe. Nothing is as it appears.
- A UNIQUE MYSTERY PUZZLE STORY AND EXPERIENCE
Play as three characters, each with a unique background, in an attempt to escape your captivity. Encounter a unique story shrouded in mystery and conspiracy told over the course of this mystery puzzle horror adventure. - VOICE ACTING
The game features fully voice acting for real immersion. - PUZZLES
Many items and puzzles hide within the world, can you find and solve them all? Look everywhere, listen to everything. - INTERACTION
Interact or examine over 70% of the items in game for a real immersive experience. Can you find everything the world has to offer? - ATMOSPHERIC SOUND
The Initiate: First Interviews features a great soundtrack and immersive ambience, which enhances game-play and tension. - IMMERSIVE GRAPHICS
The Initiate uses Physical Based Shaders (PBS) for AAA-quality graphics that give players a detailed world to explore. - ENDING
Your choice matters, and will result in the ending you achieve.
What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Players praise The Initiate 2 for its well-designed, challenging puzzles that strike a good balance in difficulty and create a satisfying flow as you progress through the interconnected rooms with multiple characters. Common complaints include a clunky inventory system, occasional technical hiccups, and some rigid riddles that require exact typed answers with no bypass option if you get stuck, though saving frequently mitigates these issues.
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews is a first-person puzzle adventure developed and published by Deceptive Games Ltd. Serving as a sequel to the original The Initiate, the game continues the series’ focus on complex puzzle solving, environmental exploration, and psychological mystery. Rather than emphasizing action or combat, the experience centers entirely on logic, investigation, and unraveling a carefully constructed scenario in which several individuals must confront a series of intellectual challenges in order to survive. With its escape-room style mechanics and narrative built around secrecy and moral judgment, the game aims to immerse players in a tense situation where observation and reasoning become the most valuable tools. The story begins with three strangers awakening in isolated cells within what appears to be an underground facility. None of them knows how they arrived there, and the environment around them suggests that their captivity is part of a deliberate and highly organized experiment. Shortly after regaining consciousness, the characters are contacted by a mysterious figure who communicates through an intercom system. The voice informs them that their situa…1 found this helpful
Excellent relaxing puzzle game.
Interesting puzzles, not too easy, but not too difficult
It's pretty good. Once you have all three characters it starts to become very obvious what needs to happen across the three rooms to move things along (with sharing certain items etc) and it had a really good rhythm/flow to just keep pushing forward while switching between the characters on the fly. There are clunky issues in there with the inventory system and also a few technical issues here or there, but they are mostly minor things. If you save often you'll be fine. Mostly logical if you pay attention to the finer details hidden in plain sight, although I did need a walkthrough to bash through some riddles that were in there (and felt out of place as there was no way to bypass them if you're stuck as they require exact worded answers you type in). A fair few puzzles you can also brute force which was amusing, but often the easy logical answer is the correct one. A decent escape room that you should be able to clear in under 5hrs play time.
I liked this one even more than the 1st Initiate game. This is a much more polished game and the puzzles and riddles are very challenging and well thought. Recommended for any escape room/puzzle game fan.
10/10!! great puzzles
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