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Game2015
Lost Horizon 2
Developer Animation Arts GmbH
Lost Horizon 2 is a graphic adventure video game developed by Animation Arts and published by Deep Silver for Windows, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch. It is the sequel to Lost Horizon. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
109 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Aug 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
39
Rotten
43 positive · 66 negative
95% range 31–49%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
120 of 254 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 109 · most liked firstDevelopers completely lost their way It's hard to believe this game was released in 2015. It doesn't look better than the first game and everything else in it is worse. We get a similar story about supernatural powers and nazis and all that stuff. It's fun, but it's overshadowed by questionable design choices and poor controls. I don't know why developers decided to mess up the controls. I understand that developers wanted to make it all 3D but my question is why? If you don't have a huge…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this second instalment is not at all as good as the first Lost Horizon. The money spent in developing the game was too little or the staff was too tired. Graphics are just passable. Story is sufferable. and Bugs are plenty. Its is not as humorous as the first. Considering the price and the competition, or lack of, its OK.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't even fight through a full hour of this game. The graphics are serviceable, however the gameplay is sorely lacking. Decently voice acted, but utterly devoid of any other mechanics that would make this game in any way worthwhile. A simple point and click game with subpar "casual" gaming mechanics coupled with inadequate and poorly designed options menus and barebones tutorials... with VERY badly configured keyboard controls (rebinding helps but not enough) make this $40 title a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a fan of Lost Horizon 1 I was hugely disappointed in this game. It was boring, the characterizations from the first were completely different, and the fun romantic history of the original was gone. The puzzles are often buggy or random, and even the built-in walkthrough is wrong at points. It was also quite short. Absolutely not recommended and very disappointed, as I thoroughly enjoy most adventure games. Save often - there is no autosave, and when a puzzle bugs out and you have to restart,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game despite the negative reviews, after hesitating. I liked the predecessor and I really enjoyed this one so far. The story is good, the graphics are nice and the tasks are motivating. The locations are nice, varied and captivating. There are some glitches now and then with the animations, but they are not disturbing. I do not like the reaction-parts of the gameplay, fortunately there are not many in the first four chapters. I play the game with mouse only, just as classic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointed, I enjoyed the first Lost Horizon game, and was working my way through this new one until I got to the motorcycle chase. With the combination of a sluggish cursor and my poor reflex time, I can't complete it and move on to the next part of the game. There seems to be no way to skip it,so my game ends here. I buy point and click games because I'm not particularly fast, so adding something like this without an opt out means I've wasted my money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this game. The graphics were beautiful. The story was captivating. Exploring old houses is especially fun for me. I experienced no technical issues throughout gameplay. In the style of point and click adventures, there was a lot of thinking to be done in this game.Most of the puzzles were easy. I would say the one at the end with the Nordic Boat was particularly difficult. I really enjoyed that the characters travelled all over the world. Some of the landscapes were very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not too picky when it comes to adventure games, willing to overlook convoluted solutions to mundane situations (exacerbated when the games have realistic-ish settings), non-existant character animations and the occasional writing fumble. Deep Silver have generally been pretty good at those - solid, middle of the road games that scratch the itch I've nursed ever since the first Broken Sword. Lost Horizon 1 was, for my money, the best of their bunch. Some would argue the previous game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not worth thirty pound .Its too short. Get it ONLY during a sale IF you really must get it at all. I do like the first lost horizon in many ways but this just isnt the same. some of the puzzles are SO ilogical that no wonder thay put in a walkthrough in - game ,for instance (not trying to add spoilers so I wont give out too much information) you are in the forest looking for a back entrance you KNOW you are in the right spot no doubt at all but NOTHING happens ZILCH no indication to point you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Cold War-flavored point-and-click thriller with a strong family-drama core. It delivers plenty of stylish, dramatic set pieces, even if the transitions between them can feel a bit rough.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am afraid to say i cannot recommend this game for more than maybe 3-4 Euros / Dollars. Lost Horizon was an amazing 2D Puzzle game with some nice RPG elements a la Indiana Jones. The backgrounds were handdrawn, the animations kind of fluent and the voicecast was very good. The puzzles didnt always go with logic but were fun to play. The music was amazing and I wished Animation Arts and Deep Silver would have kept up with their good work in the past. Lost Horizon 2 may offer some nice…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Τι θα χρειαζόταν προκειμένου να καταφέρει να σταθεί επάξια δίπλα στον τίτλο που μας έκανε να τον αγαπήσουμε το 2010; Μεγαλύτερη διάρκεια, περισσότερους χαρακτήρες, σαφώς καλύτερα γραφικά στις διάφορες cut scenes, απουσία των χαζών, action-τύπου, νεωτερισμών, μεγαλύτερη συνοχή στο gameplay, πιο ομαλή ροή προς το φινάλε και σίγουρα χαμηλότερη τιμή! Δε του λείπουν και λίγα, ε; Απογοήτευση και μάλιστα μεγάλη είναι η μόνη λέξη που μου έρχεται στο μυαλό αναφορικά με το “Lost Horizon 2”. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT GET THIS GAME. Cons: * Graphics are *worse* than Lost Horizon I. Why? * The story is weak. Characters, annoying * Puzzles are mundane, and have no connection to the storyline, whatsoever This game has the terminal illness called 'generic puzzles'. Since it has no plot, it resorts to making everything difficult, to stall for time. Towards the end it gives up any pretense, and all the puzzles are just some generic **** you've seen anywhere * Some of the puzzles are *pure* guesswork. No…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first game was great, real fun, had heart and humor. But this one is just a major disappointment. That unnecessary unskippable motorcycle chase mini game with those crappy, sluggish controls, omg. Gave up after trying 5 times, it was ridiculously annoying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I quickly lost interest in Lost Horizon 2. Unnecessary, and bugged, QuickTime events to progress the game, dreary scenery, a click-a-thon of tedious 'puzzles', etc, etc. Move along, folks, there's nothing to see (or worth the time) here...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As others have said - not a fun game at all - point and click adventyures shouldn't have console game style timed events, but should rather be enjoyable via a good narrative and intersting puzzles and locations.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Merely a shadow of the first game. On a technical level there are a lot of poor design choices like opting for 3-D character models and animations, something which developers obviously didn't have time, budget or talent for. This is mostly apparent in cutscenes which look like they belong in a game from the late 90s. Frustratingly, they feel very shoe-horned in, triggering in places where character has to do some simple action which could've easily been animated in game. Frustratingly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Compared to the original Lost Horizon, which was pretty good, the sequel is a disappointment. It's not utterly terrible, but I would not recommend it either. The story was meh and morally questionable. There are some bugs, although I didn't encounter anything gamebreaking, but there was one instance with one or more missing scenes. Warning minor spoilers: At one point, you do something that triggers a cut scene, the main character gets knocked out by an enemy, the game loads and after that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The original Lost Horizon was a very good game. It was about a guy looking for a missing friend in Tibet. The Third Reich have been gathering artifacts there and the guy gets mixed up in it all. It had a good story, interesting characters, good puzzles, some action sequences and a great sense of adventure. It was made by the people behind Secret Files: Tunguska but it's a much better game than that one. The game isn't a masterpiece but has a good, solid story and holds your attention like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like playing the game. Graphics are very nice, ambient sound and voice actors are great. Puzzles are logical and good, sometimes are time based puzzles anoying, you must repeat whole scenario again and again. The lenght of the game is acceptable, about 10 hours. Story is great, you playing with 3 difrent players, sometimes you must switch between two players for finish some task, and this is great implemented into the story. You visit many diffrent locations and they are very colorful. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pros + gorgeous looking, colorful and detailed 3 D background artwork + there are plenty of different interesting and exotic locations + the story that i believe is inspired by İndiana Jones movies is intriguing. there are also some cool stuff about scandinavian mythology in the end and i quite like it. + fun to watch cinematic cutscenes + nice background musics + three playable character + some action and stealth parts fun + some puzzles and mini games are enjoyable. they are not so easy or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A waste of time and a waste of money. Poor graphics, very shallow and simple plot, stupid riddles, illogical solutions and many many bugs. Some of them even make it impossible to continue the game. Of course you can alwas load some save but only if you saved it at thr right moment. I didn't finish it, stuck with the stupid rotating pillars at the cave. No idea how they work and what should I do to make the third one move but I don't care anymore. Mainly because I can't try to solve this riddle…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can not recommend this game at all, it's a sad and poor excuse of a sequel to a decent game. I have all the Secret Files games from this studio and both LH 1 & 2 and out of all of them LH2 is the worst. And yes this game can easily be completed within 3-4 hours. I'm not a huge fan of the Lost Horizon series to begin with. I've seen too many times the LH games get compared to the Secret Files series and that can't be farther from the truth really... Especially in the case of this game. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has nothing in common with its predecessor except that Paddock is involved. The charm of LH1 could not be captured. The new 3D backgrounds are not atmospheric and the character models are hideous. Paddock's daughter is half-Chinese but in the game the kid looks Eurpoean lol. In LH1 you had to laugh sometimes, not out loud but smirking. The humor was completely missing in the game, unfortunately. The puzzles are mostly jumbled number combinations and spinning puzzles. Every now and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty unrecognizable from the excellent first game. Cut scenes were low quality, although the interactive scenes were nicely done. It lacked any trademark geniune humour or charm in the script/delivery from the voice actors. Puzzles were okay, but a few illogical ones were frustrating. And an annoying bug near the end game marred what was an okay journey overall. It's okay, but get it in the sales.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved the first game. The orriginal felt very cinematic, was well written, nice graphics, good dialogue, 60 NPCs.... This on the other hand... Well... It feels like a bastardized port of a game that was built to put on the iphone. But then again this is par for the course in any Animation Arts series. For Example, Segrect Files: Tanguska was pure genius. Then Secret Files 2 came out, it was alright, but clearly suffered from being a sequel. Secret Files 3... Well lets just say that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have completed the first 2 chapters and thoroughly enyoyed the experience so far. I don't understand why people don't like this game. It is very pleasant, the graphics are perfectly acceptable and the puzzles are fair and well integrated into the story. As a conventional point&click adventure game, it does not break any moulds, but I don't see why it has to either. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but why can't people just enjoy some good old fashioned adventure game like they used to.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A shallow, unpolished, unfinished sequel that pesters you with unnecessary quick-time events that have no place in a point & click game, as well as some extremely annoying mechanical puzzles. The decent voice acting and some truly stunning settings cannot salvage this obviously rushed (and fairly short) sequel. Worth it only if you get it for a euro or so.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the excellent Lost Horizon, Lost Horizon 2 feels a bit like a slap in the face. The voice acting is bad, the cutscenes are animated awfully; the same goes for animations in general. The only recurring character from Lost Horizon is Fenton, the main character, and his personality went from witty, charismatic war veteran to generic male #6 with no redeemable or interesting personality traits whatsoever - a bastardization of character. Speaking of characters, no new character is even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got stuck on the motorcycle scene and gave up. Not fun at all. Pity - the first one was good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointing after enjoying Lost Horizon original a lot. Also hit bug where some info & puzzles only worked in widescreen and not my native 4:3 - had to switch screen res to solve certain parts!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is genuinaly rubbish, and you should only buy it if the following factors apply; 1. You enjoy adventure caper storylines set in the past (1950s Cold War in this case) 2. You are prepared to put up with many areas of subpar graphics and cutscenes that look far worse than the first game 3. You are prepared to put up with frequent bugs and crashing. Just starting the game would take me half a dozen times on occasion before it would work 4. You enjoy overly convoluted puzzles or are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1+1= 2 GG THIS GAME HAVE HARD PUZZILE BRO
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first one was charming, and I'd even play it again. But what the actual ♥♥♥♥ happened here? I am tragically dissapointed, and admittedly rather pissed off. It is entirely beyond me why people are so forgiving of this game. The majority of the puzzles are the most convoluted and illogical heaps of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I can imagiene. Basically nothing is intuitive and it only gets worse and worse as the story progresses. The story was the only good part, althought Fenton didn't feel like Fenton…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lost Horizon 2 unfortunately caused disappointment among many players due to its shortcomings in mechanics and story. Compared to its predecessor, it could not keep up. Some players feel that the puzzles and dialogues were not as well elaborated as in the first part. The controls and graphics were also criticised. The story of Lost Horizon 2 could not offer the same depth and suspense as the story of its predecessor. There was often a lack of coherence and the characters remained pale and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not so good as the first Lost Horizon, but enjoyable to play. It took me about 4 hours on windows 11.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like all Animation Arts games, it looks great, and the overal story is ok, so if you liked all their previous games, you'll probably like this one too. I did fine up till the last chapter, there were some 'puzzles' that I had to need to use a walkthrough, one with what to do with the pole, then there was the raven 'puzzle' and lastly, the stone movement puzzle. And that made it annoying, especially the raven and stone 'puzzles'. Also one other 'quicktime' event part was annoying that the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An unplayable buggy mess of a game! :( I really enjoyed the first game in the series and had no issues whatsoever playing that. But this sequel is just really bad. In fact it is so buggy and bad that I am unable to continue playing due to essential picture clues being replaced with big red question marks. Any interaction with these question marks freeze the game and I have to manually crash the game. It's a Unity game so I assume there are files missing or corrupted resources.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing the first Lost Horizon game I expected more from the sequel. But I'm afraid Lost Horizon 2 didn't improve on the lacks original had, actually it was a significant downgrade in every aspect. Game is much shorter, storytelling is awkward and gameplay puzzles are mostly generic. Never the less if you are huge fan of original Lost Horizon I recommend Lost Horizon 2. It has some issues but main story is not extremely bad and game is rather short. There are few new gameplay mechanics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I quit part way through. I thought it was better than the 1st, at first, but no. The amount of ridiculous steps necessary to carry out the most simple tasks drove me insane. I cannot take the back and forth as it is, but when you add stupid illogical steps it drives me crazy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ending was somewhat disastisfying, but other then that it was an interesting game. The puzzles weren't overly taxing, the story interesting. It could have done with some more fleshing out, but it wasn't bad. all in all it was a fun game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →QTE. Was good for an hour, until ruined by retardesign.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The quick review is: There are better games out there. Let me start with the technical side of things. The game needs refinement, starting with the inability of turning on VSync, thus GPU is running at 100%. I experienced stutter when new dialogue pops up. The game also crashed once. There is inconsistent animation all over the place. The sound breaks from time to time. Music is not matching the transition between scenes. The game tries something new with new mechanics. There are timed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great point and click adventure game, good story/graphics/puzzles. But it has some technical issues, the game was crashing a lot which makes the game unplayable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lost Horizon 2 is unplayable. It starts OK, but the more you progress the longer saving and loading takes. In Chapter 6 it takes about 10 min to save and nearly 15 min to load, on a good PC that can play a variety of much more demanding recent titles without issues. It also crashes. As a result, I'm unable to progress further. Update: I finally managed to complete the game by - restarting from the beginning with minimal graphics - minimizing the number of saves (a single save at the beginning…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very strange sequel of a poor point'n'click seria. - The main character from the first part suddenly gained a voice of principal Skinner - Some unnecessary QTE scenes were added, they look pretty clumsy and outstanding for this game - The story is very predictable and boring. Even more boring than the 1st part - No jokes and humor at all - No explanation on Fenton's wife backstory - Sound volume optimization problem. To play the game in comfort you need to bring volume of music and background…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid game. Story had some holes from my point of view. Especially towards the end There were a few action sequences that were more annoying than fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So.. this game has nothing to do with the 1st one. At first i thought this game was a huge downgrade... Graphics isnt very good, and theres also some annoying gimmicks. But it grew on me.. Good story, much better puzzles. I really enjoyed it. IMHO, much better than the 1st.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: nowhere near as good as other Animation Arts games, this one has it all: uninteresting plot and characters, downgrade in artstyle, poor puzzles, inconsistent mechanics, even staggeringly bad framerate from time to time. On a positive note, there's a built-in walkthrough (which you might need for some of this nonsense) - but then it must've been written by an avid fan of minimalism. My grievances in glorious detail: After the solid four Secret Files games and Lost Horizon 1, this one was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's alright. The first one is a genuinely good point and click but this one suffers from having too many playable characters, a daft ending, some late game complex/nonsensical puzzles... but overall it's still enjoyable, with those caveats. Definitely get this one on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Opinion is clearly divided on this game but I really loved it. The graphics are surprisingly good on my 38" monitor and the speech and movement of the characters are absolutely fine, I'm not sure what people were complaining about. I've been playing adventure games for well over 30 years and I would say the graphics are some of the best for a point and click adventure. I think the puzzles were challenging but not too much for you 9yr old son, this has been a great introduction in to the point…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just awful. Compared to the first game, which was really great, Lost Horizon 2 is a joke. Graphics: much better in the first game Puzzles: with one exception, puzzles are disappointing as heck, even embarrassing sometimes Story: Zzz... Characters: So so Plot: Zzz... Fun: non-existant It seems the game was more than rushed. Transitions from one scene to the next are lacking in cohesion. Sometimes the game does not even try to explain how a certain character ended up in the scene. Also, it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not great, but far from the worst. I think this one should be a bit further down your list, but if you're starved for point and click adventures and have finished all the popular choices already, maybe give this one a shot. I'm glad I didn't let the reviews discourage me, so I'm giving it a thumbs up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a bug in that game. In the part in the cave with switches, Paddock is stuck in the corner and can't move forward !!!!!!!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad, but not as good as original. Some puzzles are a bit rubbish, like when you have to click on the holigram otherwise the puzzle can't be done and the door keeps closing even though you have done the correct sequence.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Charming and well-made classic Point&Click Adventure. Great looking art.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want to know why I do not recommend this game, you can read other reviews. I'm here just to beat a dead horse.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your classic click and point game with various puzzles to solve and a great story. The dialogue in this game is good too no long rambling paragraphs like you usually see from the adventure company. Setting/graphics are very detailed and pleasing to the eye.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game, I really did. After having played the first one, I was really excited when I saw that this game was releasing. The story of the first one left me feeling somewhat nostalgic for the Indiana Jones series and I was excited at the thought of reliving that. I was wrong. My biggest complaint with this was just how incredibly shallow the plot was. I played it a bit when it first released and felt a bit 'meh' about the plot then, but I decided to soldier on and see if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Animation Arts was a nice point'n'click developer. I recommend the first Lost Horizon or the Tunguska series, but not this one. Believe the other reviewers, this game is just awful.
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