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Still Life 2
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Still Life 2 is a 2009 adventure game developed by French company Gameco Studios and published by MC2 France under their Microïds label. It is a sequel to the 2005 game Still Life, and follows on from the characters and themes of 2003's Post Mortem. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
193 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
35
Rotten
67 positive · 123 negative
95% range 29–42%
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| Steam reviews | 67 | 123 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
254 of 577 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 193 · most liked firstA few years ago, when I first played Still Life, I was blown away by the mature nature of it. My point-and-click experiences had been games that could be geared for the whole family. I had recently played Syberia and when I saw that Still LIfe was done by the same publisher I jumped at the opportunity to take on the Still Life saga. Still Life was a great and gritty game and the story continues in Still Life 2. At the end of Still Life, it appears that Agent Vic McPherson has stopped the main…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post Mortem was a bitter disappointment, with bad game design and an uninteresting plot, so I wasn't sure I'd continue with the Still Life series. However, the first Still Life was actually alright, showing marked improvement in puzzle design and plot development, so I figured I ought to give the sequel a try. Unfortunately, the third installment in the series reversed much of the progress made by its predecessor. + The only reason this game is worth playing is because it wraps up the loose…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad at all, but not as good as the previous entry and has alot more issues. The voice acting is uneven. One character in particular delivers his lines so flatly that it’s jarring though, interestingly, his performance improves later on, which makes me wonder if it was intentional. A handful of minor characters also fall into “mediocre” territory. On the technical side, I managed to get stuck in a stairwell after clicking too quickly while the camera shifted. My character didn’t register in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#RandomGameSaturday Still Life was a modern classic adventure game with a great interface, atmosphere, and a unique dual timeline mystery story with fantastic puzzle gameplay. Still Life 2 threw out the first's story to rip off Saw. With lots of bugs. youtu.be/0SPlnvku0M0?...
unlabelledView post →Still Life 2 is an adventure/detective point-and-click game and the sequel to Still Life. The first game ended on a cliffhanger, so I bought this game for closure (and it was on sale for under 1€). For a game that was released in 2009, it has nice graphics. The locations are detailed and mostly fun to explore. The main character is still unlikable/annoying, but has a few surprising instances of character development. Not enough to be a good and likable protagonist in my opinion, but still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great story line but its very hard and if you don't do things in the correct order then the game will act like your not supposed to do it at all. Download version played well till a certain point but then it won't let me go any farther like there is a glitch on Reunion level where I am supposed to kick over the trash can to go to the hidden door(only reason why I know is because I looked up what to do in that level) and when I do it does nothing but glitch the screen. So I would give a 3 1/2…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pros + good looking graphics and character models + the forensic field kit is a great idea. You can scan fingerprints, tire tracks and compare those to the database of the FBI directly.You can also collect samples of DNA, fibers and chemicals and chemically analyze them on the field and also compare them to the FBI data base. + two playable characters + The Saw movies inspired a serial killer and exciting story with plenty of twists and turns + some puzzles enjoyable + good background musics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While Still Life 1 was a very good game, Still Life 2 could not measure up to it and is just a really bad game altogether. Pros: -the story was relatively interesting -the atmosphere was good -the idea of searching for clues with a FBI-kit is good Cons: -most of the story takes place in the same location -the story was a bit predictable -graphics suck -gameplay sucks -camera was annoying -the inventory system that made you run back and forth -too many clues that didn't bring the story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't normally leave negative reviews but I want to help you avoid the same mistake I made: If you're thinking "I see all these reviews saying it's terrible but I LOVED the first one so much that I'll put up with anything to see the continued story." Don't. It really is that bad. The dev team got done dirty. They could have given us another fantastic game. The first one was amazing and I loved it. But this is barely playable, frustrating, and poor quality. If you play this you'll most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Words can't describe how disappointed I am with this game. I got stuck two f.cking times because of bugs... I even checked walkthroughs to make sure I didn't miss anything. I even reloaded an older save to see if it worked... it did... until the second bug showed up making it impossible to move on with the story. Not being able to finish this game and having to watch gameplays on YT in order to see how the story ends broke my damn heart. Still Life 1 was a masterpiece. This one is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ The only reason this game is worth playing is because it wraps up the loose strings left hanging by the first Still Life. - For most of the game, the protagonists are trapped, waiting for a psychopath to come and torture them to death. - The protagonists are not particularly endearing, making it difficult to care what happens to them. - The same environment is used over and over for nearly the whole game. - Limited inventory space is used to artificially increase the difficulty of puzzles by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still Life 2 (as the name suggest) is the sequel to Still Life and is a letdown and I just can’t recommend in light of its predecessor. Unless you are very curious, I would recommend ignoring this one, it never existed. If you read the game description, it says “Still Life 2 reveals the long-awaited ending of Still Life and spells a new investigation for Agent Victoria McPherson” and it is correct but the way it was done here is insulting to anyone who played the first game - it’s very rushed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I chose to ignore the poor reviews given how much I loved the first game. This game had so much potential if it hadn't been riddled with glitches. The game doesn't stop you from progressing to certain events without having completed necessary ones. It is so easy to get stuck, miss things, or complete them in the wrong order which leads to spoilers. I ended up needing to download a save file just to get past a certain point because the game wouldn't run properly and there was no escaping the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you were at all intrigued by the original, pretend this doesn't exist.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game is better. Puzzles is not good and story don't continue from first game. Graphics in this is ok but first game just better on all ways. But I still
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Atrocious. There is only one thing going for the game - for a couple of puzzles it offers slight, smart variations on solutions. Everything else is designed to piss the player off and waste their time. There were almost no items to pick up in the first game, because it contained mostly logic-based puzzles - that mistake was corrected with zeal in this here glorious second installment. Now there are too many items, but the inventory space is also now limited. That would have been tolerable if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked Still Life 1, don't bother with this. It starts meh and goes on completely rubbish. Most of the game is a pixel hunt for details you can't really see (given the very limited resolution) which are required to progress. Most of the puzzles are nonsensical, too, with plot holes scattered all over the place. I was playing with my girlfriend and had to use a walkthrough just to discover there was a single, specific, almost invisible point I had to click on to discover a clue. What a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a HUGE disappointment, considering how much I really like the first game. - Controls suck - Spending hours on investigation without any progress in the plot - Too many clicking and pointing and too little story - Probably the reason why the killer wasn't reveal in the first game was because they want us to buy the second game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still Life 2 is a good enough game. Its main problem is that it comes after Still Life 1, an exceptional game, and as such it pales in comparison. Whereas Still Life 1 and many other Microid games, like Syberia and Sinking Island, have a fixed camera angle in each scene, Still Life 2 decides to make the switch to a fully fledged 3D experience, where the camera follows the movement of the character. The implementation is not exactly perfect and seems quite immature. At the same time, the 3D…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A disappointing sequel that loses almost everything that made the first game special. The atmosphere is gone, the story is a convoluted mess, and the new protagonist is much less compelling than Victoria McPherson. The puzzles feel more like tedious busywork than clever challenges. It's a classic case of a follow-up that misunderstands why people liked the original. Only hardcore completionists of the series should bother, and even then, lower your expectations way down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An already average game gives way to, somehow, an even worse one. Unintuitive awful UI, even worse puzzles, awful voice acting and worse art direction. Grating sound design, with constant crunching, wood creaking, and other random sounds as well as music overpowering the dialogue. No pretty environments like the first game; The entirety of it takes place in one boring house. I enjoyed the cinematography of the pre-rendered cutscenes, and the Saw-esque sections were interesting, but out of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked this game as well as the first one . This actually had an ending as the first one didn't.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1) has basically nothing to do with previous games in the series 2) horrible controls and camera handling 3) horrible game design choices 4) sound did not work with HDMI cable (but Post Mortem & Still Life 1 had no problems) 5) idiotic villain motivation, cartoonish villain plan 6) extremely disappointing ending
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh boy. Worst follow up to two good games since Penumbra Requiem maybe? Granted Requiem at least tried something new while failing. Still Life 2 is just a very worst version of a good game. And that sucks because you kind of need to play it to get the complete ending to the main plot of the first one. I'm going to go rather in depths with every aspects of this one. If you are just not interested in the details, I have TL;DR section in the end for you. But this one hurts a bit, so I need to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feel sad, the first game Still Life was amazing and still is. In this game you are on a farmhouse (somekind) and try to find a missing reporter. You have to find her before she dies. The feeling felt like The saw the movie when I started. But Still life 2 doesn*t have that spark or "pullin the gamer in to the story" like the first one did. I got bored later on. The game had alot glitches and bugs that didn't made it easier to play. Sad thou
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still Life 2 is probably the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced in gaming. After the brilliance of the first game, here we see pointless inventory management which makes you run back and forth (with slow animations) wasting time for no reason, a moving camera that hinders more than it helps, a switch of voice actors who are not as good as in the original, and game-breaking bugs. And that's just what I experienced in the short time I spent with the game. I can well believe other…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible gameplay, nonsensical story, bugs and disappointing ending (both)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If nothing else, this game is destined to be divisive, and whilst it’s certainly not “Still Life: Part 2”, it does – just barely – do enough good things to deserve to be called Still Life 2.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Sequel That Does Not Feel Like One Still Life 2 is the unfortunate answer to a question no one was asking. Instead of meaningfully continuing the story from the first game, it sidelines the original plot and forces a completely new, tonally dissonant killer into the spotlight. In its attempt to chase the gory survival-horror trends of the Saw and Silent Hill era, it abandons the moody, detective-noir charm that made and still makes Still Life 1, a classic. What this game does well?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels like this game is doing everything possible to make the player dislike it. One of the worst adventure games I’ve ever played. I remember quitting this game without finishing it many years ago, and it was a big part of why I stopped playing p&c adventure games for a long time. But I wanted to find out who the killer was, so I came back... just to play through an irrelevant story and learn about the killer from the first Still Life through a few flashbacks. And that story isn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There so many chances for you to see yourself stuck coz a bug, with no chance to go on; that unless you literally save every few steps I guarantee you'll get frustraded with it in no time. It's a shame because the first one is so good, but because of those bugs I've barely finished the game, much less really enjoyed the story. In the end I saw a game with at least a little bit of potencial, but wasted in bad experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, my god, this is the worst garbage I have ever played. We all know that sequels are bad, but THIS bad? THIS lacking in design? THIS lacking in settings? THIS boring? Seriously, just get the first game and enjoy, instead of getting this buggy pixel-hunting mess no one managed to fix in eleven years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are no character models only on Steam It only loaded the hair, eyes and teeth very annoying frustrating and disappointing It has non of the charm of the first Still Life. The plot is simply boring and the whole concept of typical maniac from C movie makes it even worse ...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started the game, character models didn't load in, only teeth and eyes. Restarting did not help and neither did changing the options. After uninstalling and reinstalling it worked. To my shock the models look much worse than the models from the first game. Very lifeless faces. Victorias hair is a shaggy blob. The backgrounds look much worse too. Honestly I thought the first game looked pretty nice and detailed for it's time (besides the NPCs which were really ugly!) but this is overall just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good point and click game. better than Still LIfe 1, in the sense that this one you feel more like an actual detective using an FBI kit and more power of deductions. some puzzles i had to go through online help but not too many and not as tedious as SL1 . the plot twist seemed like they were just trying to forcibly extend the game more. but overall give it about a 7/10 rating.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it was amazing just like the first game also it got the hardest puzzles
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Badly made. Loads of bugs. Bad storyline.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the worst Point and Click adventure games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PC Gamers who here want's FREE steam keys?! I have one of each of the following Syberia: The World Before Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The First Cases Still Life Still Life 2 Message me with a email address connected to a Steam Account and what game you want
unlabelledView post →Awful, terrible experience. The plot is disastrous, control of the game is tedious, the puzzles are all incomprehensible and occasionally on a timer. The only reason to ever touch this game is to find out the resolution to still life 1, which is peppered throughout the game. You're better off looking it up on youtube. Do not buy or play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1.3/10 never a good sign when the store page has 0 gameplay footage of any kind
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"A Bug Life: Bugs Never Ending" is not even half as good as its father. The core feature of the game is bugging. It is bugging itself so you cannot play it without saving every 2 minutes. It bugs the player with all the mechanics possible to annoy you the best it can. There are bugs in the shape of Paloma, the sheriff and Garris who I am sure are all praying mantises in human disguise. Also the biggest bug is Vic herself, doing everything within her powers to be as lame as she can as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game, as well as its twin sister on GOG seem to originate from the same source. The game has damaged files and will play well until it about halfway through. then it will black screen out as Victoria tries to go back upstairs after using the computer in the basement. If you like the challenge of employing countless workarounds only to fail again, this game is for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great idea, poorly executed. Only get it on sale, if you're a fan of mystery-horror adventure games. The developers probably pride themselves on "not leading the player," but it makes for a poor gaming experience when the player has no idea what their objectives are. The good: graphics are appropriate for the genre and era the game was designed. Kind of polygonal, but it's fine. The cycling animations during character conversations are unrealistic, but that's period! All games made at this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't really hold the same hate for the game as people are showing at times, but this game still has the rough symptoms of "unfunded sequel-itis". A successful game comes out, new sequel project gets made and then it'll get only a sliver of the project and/or talent that made the game successful to begin with. The game tries to really push towards 3D models. It's harsh visually. Very harsh. In fact, I'd say the game is uglier and because of its need to create "more complex" environments with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad UI, even worse than the first one. Also some frustrating camera angles. Probably the worst is this game is GRINDY in a never ending "stage" level type of way. I used a strategy guide and it still felt like the levels and puzzle solving never ended. It's just way too long in some areas. If you're not using a strategy guide, bless your heart and take the summer off because it's going to take a while. The story isn't even that good. Feels like bad directing or if it was a movie a bad b…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the other negative reviews are right. I should have listened. I only finished it out of spite. Don't bother.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am reviewing this game as part of the "Still Life Collection", i.e., Post Mortem, Still Life and Still Life 2, and while certainly Still Life is the star of the show here, both others I would certainly when the collection is discounted (as it frequently is, steeply) recommend as well. Post Mortem due to an interesting story and mostly atmosphere, and due to it being an actual prequel to the very good game Still Life, with the protagonist of former shared with one of two protoganists of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game took some of the best things about Still Life 1 and ruined them. The stupidity of being asked to look around a room for clues without being able to turn the view (i.e. you have to move the character around to look sideways - and she is nearly impossible to position where you want). Add to that the nifty idea of a field kit but now you have to search with a cursor over "huge" areas looking for something that reacts to the cursor - there are next to no visible queues on where to look…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a disgrace to the previous game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very disappointing after the first two games. Timed puzzles, visiting the same rooms for 10 hours and too much pixel hunting with bad camera angles. Story was ok so I finished it with walkthrough otherwise I would unistalled after the first hour.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ---{PC Requirements}--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☑ Significant brain usage ☑ Easy to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As another user said in a review, this is like one of those cheap sequels of a good movie. The gameplay feels very dull and slow, unlike in the first game. Additionally there is bug that would stop your progress when a phone call is not activated.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring,stupid and annoying puzzles.Pixel hunting.Wasn't a great fan of the first two but somehow enjoyed playing them.This one is a joke.For some reason game crashes very often.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →20 hours of pure bliss, this game is waay harder than the first and my notepad is loaded and happy :3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked the quirky nature of Still Life 1. #2 has a much better interface, and leans heavily on CSI style investigation. The writing and storyline are, by comparison to the first game, a bit cliche and weird. But given it's age it's alright. No one is expecting peak mystery. The biggest issue however is a game breaking bug that can occur when you're about 75% of the way through. You basically cannot do anything. Having spent hours searching for answers I gave up and submitted a refund…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Should have read a synopsis
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a sequel, comparisons to the first game are inevitable. The models, voice acting, writing, it's all bad. The models looks like Dollar Store versions of the original models from the first game... And not even THEY were all THAT great, but they did their job. These models, however, are just plain awful looking. The voice acting is also just... What's worse than terrible? Whatever it is, that's the voice acting in this game. Given the situation most of the characters are in, either being a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good graphics, pretty engaging. puzzles are hard but the answers are logical. I have been able to solve most my self. Tip need to analyze ALL clues before you can move forward in game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very good point and click game. Very interesting and fun to play. I never get bored playing it over and over. I would def recommend this game to anyone who likes adventure games.
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