TLDR: Fear and Hunger 2: Termina provides an absolutely gripping and thought provoking experience, if you are willing to make the sometimes painful commitment of pushing through hour after hour.

This game hooked itself into my soul for about 2 weeks and I’m still combing through its details in my mind as I write this review months after playing it. If you are even remotely into any of the following I beg you to truly try this game: Eldritch/Body Horror, JRPG, Survival Horror. F&H2 handles all of these facets very well and brings unique mechanics into the mix like the combat limb system seen in the original. Honestly the only “traditional” JRPG elements of this game are your turn-based combat and equipping things, everything else like leveling-up and fast travel are very different from the norm.

The city of Prehevil feels alive. The world of the game is heavily affected by your choices as very few encounters are truly random, this forces the player to make difficult and quick decisions. Threats you may have ignored dealing with may have followed you, or maybe worse, an ally you let take a hit was vital to a task you really wanted to complete. This is in no way dunking on this kind of game, as I think this suspense lends itself to the subject material extremely well. That leads us to the difficulty…

F&H2 is significantly more accessible to new players than the original F&H as this game dials back some of the shock factor scenes and some of the “oh god avoid every fight” difficulty and in return pushes full throttle on the world-building, characters, and the new time system. This new system is beautifully woven into these core aspects: Saving your game and leveling up your character(s). This and many other factors all blend together to create a cohesive (and crushing) difficulty and tone for the narrative.

That all being said the difficulty can get to be a bit much for even hardened JRPG characters as you can easily lose hours of progress to a bad coin flip. If you find yourself enthralled with this game’s atmosphere and deep lore but keep getting cut short by it’s rough sandpaper-y grind I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to look through the Steam Guides page as there are plenty of very easy to install modifications to fit your play-style. (Infinite Saves was a godsend for me, hate if you want but I’m still in love with this game)

Monologue with the Moon
Under the Sulfur Sun
Dance with Gods

Fear and Hunger 2: Termina 9/10

[u]TLDR[/u]: Fear and Hunger 2: Termina provides an absolutely gripping and thought provoking experience, if you are willing to make the sometimes painful commitment of pushing through hour after hour. This game hooked itself into my soul for about 2 weeks and I’m still combing through its details in my mind as I write this review months after playing it. If you are even remotely into any of the following I beg you to truly try this game: Eldritch/Body Horror, JRPG, Survival Horror. F&H2 handles all of these facets very well and brings unique mechanics into the mix like the combat limb system seen in the original. Honestly the only “traditional” JRPG elements of this game are your turn-based combat and equipping things, everything else like leveling-up and fast travel are very different from the norm. The city of Prehevil feels alive. The world of the game is heavily affected by your choices as very few encounters are truly random, this forces the player to make difficult and quick decisions. Threats you may have ignored dealing with may have followed you, or maybe worse, an ally you let take a hit was vital to a task you really wanted to complete. This is in no way dunking on this kind of game, as I think this suspense lends itself to the subject material extremely well. That leads us to the difficulty… F&H2 is significantly more accessible to new players than the original F&H as this game dials back some of the shock factor scenes and some of the “oh god avoid every fight” difficulty and in return pushes full throttle on the world-building, characters, and the new time system. This new system is beautifully woven into these core aspects: Saving your game and leveling up your character(s). This and many other factors all blend together to create a cohesive (and crushing) difficulty and tone for the narrative. That all being said the difficulty can get to be a bit much for even hardened JRPG characters as you can easily lose hours of progress to a bad coin flip. If you find yourself enthralled with this game’s atmosphere and deep lore but keep getting cut short by it’s rough sandpaper-y grind I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to look through the Steam Guides page as there are plenty of very easy to install modifications to fit your play-style. (Infinite Saves was a godsend for me, hate if you want but I’m still in love with this game) Monologue with the Moon Under the Sulfur Sun Dance with Gods Fear and Hunger 2: Termina [b]9/10[/b]