Windjammers 2

Windjammers 2 is a sports game played from a top-down perspective, in which players must try to throw a flying disc into their opponent's goal while protecting their own. Players can earn 3 or 5 points by landing the disc into their opponent's goal in the yellow or red zones respectively, but if they fail to catch the disc before it hits the ground, this is called a "Miss" and the opponent gets 2 or 4 points depending on the arena. Players win a set by achieving a certain number of points (by default 15) or by having more points than their opponent after a certain amount of time (by default 90 seconds; unlike most timed sports, time does not stop after a score). In the event of a tie, the set counts for both players. Players win a match by winning a certain number of sets (by default 2).

Players can choose from a total of 13 playable characters. Besides all six characters from the original Windjammers, the initial version of Windjammers 2 contains four all-new characters, namely Jao Raposa of Brazil, Max Hurricane of Canada, Sammy Ho of China, and Sophie De Lys of France. There is also a secret playable character called Disc Man, who can be selected by performing a particular trick while at the character selection screen. Two additional characters, Anna Szalinski of Poland and the cyborg Jamma GX03, were added as part of a free update, bringing the total to 13.

Dotemu, the game's developer and publisher, approached Paon DP, the intellectual property owner for Windjammers, a chance to develop a port to the original game and develop a brand new game in the series. In order to be faithful to the original game, Kevin Delbrayelle, who had retro-engineered the first game during the production of its port, returned to lead the sequel's technical development. Similar to Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap and Streets of Rage 4, the game features hand-drawn 2D animation visuals. The game's pre-production started in late 2017 and the title was officially announced during a Nintendo Direct held in August 2018.

The game was planned for a 2019 release on Nintendo Switch and Windows, but got delayed to early 2020. In December 2020, Dotemu confirmed that the game was delayed again to 2021. Over the course of its development, versions for PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One were also added. The game was released on January 20, 2022. A version for Amazon Luna was made available on November 4, 2022.

Windjammers 2 received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for most platforms, according to review aggregator Metacritic; the PlayStation 4 version received "mixed or average" reviews.

Eurogamer gave the title a positive review, praising how faithful the gameplay was to the original: "Indeed, this is a more conservative thing than Streets of Rage 4, in part by necessity - the fundamentals are precisely the same, and beneath the glossy new visuals the movement of each character and the arc of the discus exactly the same on an old Astro City as they are playing on an OLED Switch". Nintendo Life liked the new visuals, saying that they were a "match for the artistic overhaul we saw in Streets of Rage 4". TouchArcade disliked the introduction of the game's mechanic, stating: "Newcomers are going to have to be patient as they learn the ropes, because the game frankly does a miserable job of teaching its mechanics. There's no training mode, and the CPU opponent is quite aggressive for a beginner even on easy difficulty". IGN appreciated how every move had a "logical counter" to it, with the reviewer saying: "I never felt like I was the victim of unfair tactics or an exploit of some kind".