High On Life 2 is a single player action adventure game from Squanch Games, the sequel to the 2022 original. You've already taken down an intergalactic cartel and brought humanity back from the brink of extinction, but when a mysterious figure from your past resurfaces and puts a price on your sister's head, your hard earned life of fortune and fame collapses into chaos. What follows is another galaxy spanning fight for survival, this time against an evil pharmaceutical conglomerate hell bent on putting price tags on human life.
Combat runs on chaotic alien firepower. Your arsenal is made up of charismatic alien weapons that shoot, stab, and bicker as you blast through enemies in high octane hyperactive encounters. Alongside the gunplay sits a brand new skateboard, letting you kickflip alien cops in the face and grind your way through environments. The combination of shooting and skating gives traversal a different texture than the original, folding movement tricks into the violence.
The worlds you tear through are described as gorgeous and dangerous, scattered across the galaxy. You'll wreak havoc at the galaxy's biggest convention, fight through an alien zoo designed to exhibit humans and cause destruction aboard a luxury futuristic cruiseliner. Each location serves the cosmic quest to dismantle the pharmaceutical conspiracy threatening humanity once again. Your rag tag team of alien misfits returns alongside an eccentric cast of bizarre and subversive lifeforms voiced by an all star comedy cast, keeping the tone firmly planted in the absurd and irreverent register the series established.
Squanch Games built this sequel from the ground up for traditional flatscreen play, a departure from the studio's earlier roots in VR. The studio behind Trover Saves the Universe and Accounting has staked its identity on games that blend comedy with immersive worlds, and High On Life 2 pushes that further with a conspiracy that stretches across the galaxy and asks whether you have what it takes to risk everything for the species you call your own.