Everhood 2

The gameplay of Everhood 2 is similar to the first Everhood, with the player controlling a light being (rather than a wooden doll) that navigates around a world and engages enemies in combat. Battles are fought by evading or absorbing enemy attacks that approach the player in a field of five columns. Absorbing multiple of the same colored attacks without being hit builds a combo that deals more damage the higher it grows, with no limit to the potential number of absorbed shots. Most bosses have their own soundtrack (though some minor enemies share one track), which usually loops until the end of the fight.

The setting ("universe") of Everhood 2 is stated to be the same as that of the original Everhood. It is later revealed that this story takes place in one of Everhood's alternate endings, where the light being controlling the first game's protagonist was given a new wooden body named Yellow; although the consequences of this ending have little effect on the overarching story of Everhood 2.

Everhood 2 opens with the player being asked several questions, ranging from technical ("Are you streaming this game right now?") to personal ("Do you play Fortnite?"). This determines the color of the non-gendered player character, which appears in a crudely drawn house on a vast white plain. They chase a stopwatch that bounces across the plain into a hole. Jumping down the hole, the player engages in battle with a mysterious shady figure, before being carried away to safety by Raven, an anthropomorphic raven.

Everhood 2 was positively received on both PC and Nintendo Switch, though slightly less strongly on the latter platform. Review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 77% of critics. Three days after its release, it received over 500 positive reviews on Steam. The game has been favorably compared to Guitar Hero, Undertale, and Mother.