Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

Goetia 2 wants you to think like a ghost rather than a tourist collecting junk. Luca can pass through walls, ceilings, and floors, but being able to reach a place is not the same as knowing what to do there. The puzzle hook is possession: with no inventory, you move and use objects in the world itself. It is a smart way to make every room feel potentially useful instead of turning progress into a shopping list.

That approach should be especially satisfying if you like adventures that reward careful memory. Notes, books, décor, spirits, and Buer’s incomplete guidance can all matter, while an action in one room may change the answer in another. With more than 80 rooms across five Venetian areas, the game asks you to build a mental map of its strange logic. The payoff is likely strongest when a detail you dismissed earlier suddenly becomes the missing piece.

The same design can create friction. Goetia 2 is plainly aimed at gamers willing to reread clues, revisit places, and experiment with their assumptions rather than expect a straight line from puzzle to puzzle. Its special powers promise new ways to understand and perceive the city, adding another layer to problems that already stretch across several locations. If that sounds absorbing instead of exhausting, the absence of a conventional inventory feels like a real creative commitment.

Graphics

This is a 2D side-view adventure set in a distorted Venice, moving from old Venetian mansions to abandoned lagoon islands. The imagery leans into decayed, supernatural places rather than cheerful postcard Venice, which suits a story about demonic summoning and a soul trapped outside his body.

Story

The personal stakes are immediate: Daphné and Luca take a short break in Venice, only for a demon to separate them. Luca awakens as a pure soul in Buer’s reality, cut off from both Daphné and his own body. That is a stronger setup than a vague haunted-house premise because the mystery has a clear human center.

Buer is more than a named monster at the edge of the story. The demon has ulterior motives and offers only partial information, so even guidance carries an appropriate sense of suspicion. Searching through Venice’s secrets around demon summoning gives the investigation a fittingly occult direction without losing sight of Luca’s more urgent need to get back to his life.

There is also a welcome tension in Luca’s growth. New abilities make this alien Venice easier to comprehend, but becoming comfortable as a spirit risks pulling him further from where he belongs. That idea gives the quest some weight beyond simply opening the next locked path. For the developer’s own overview of the premise and puzzle structure, the Goetia 2 publisher description lays out the central hooks clearly.

Overall Experience

Goetia 2 earns its interest through commitment to a single unusual idea: a point-and-click adventure where being a soul changes how you solve problems. Possession, free movement through architecture, and clues that echo across a large set of rooms all push you toward patient observation. It sounds built for the pleasure of being stuck in an intriguing place, then getting unstuck because you finally noticed what the game had been quietly telling you.

Do not come in looking for a breezy, guided puzzle tour. The game’s broad exploration and deliberately indirect clues ask for persistence, and the most rewarding moments will depend on your willingness to investigate old areas with fresh understanding. That can be frustrating when a connection remains elusive, but it is also where Goetia 2 separates itself from adventures that reduce every obstacle to inventory bookkeeping.

Give it a chance if you want a supernatural mystery with room to wander, speculate, and solve at your own pace. The demon-haunted Venice and the story of two separated lovers give those puzzles a solid emotional frame, while the inventory-free design offers a genuine twist on familiar adventure-game habits. For patient puzzle fans, that is enough to make the trip worthwhile.

Retro Replay Score

7.4/10