Adam Smith found a lot to like to like about the original in his Curious Expedition review, and we ended up calling the original one of our favourite games of 2016. Maschinen-Mensch launched the sequel into early access in June 2020, though young Matt Cox wasn’t as taken with it. “Playing the latest early access build has left me thoroughly de-psyched, because the new events are thin and far between and the combat I liked has been dumbed down,” Matt said of CE2 in June. “It’s a curious step back.” The game has seen a number of large content updates and patches since then, mind. We’ll see its final form soon enough. Well, near-final form. Maschinen-Mensch say, “version 1.0 won’t be the ‘final’ version of the game: we’re already working on content updates to be released in the upcoming months!” Curious Expedition 2 hits Steam on the 28th of January. It’s due to venture onto Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch later this year.
