Despite the development team clearly being ambitious with its story, gameplay, and visuals, Industria 2 is held back by uneven technical performance, some awkward level design, and inconsistent polish. That said, our experience across two different PC setups also showed that some of its worst issues may be hardware or configuration-specific, because underneath those problems is a solid, atmospheric, slow-paced shooter that often works better than its roughest moments suggest.

It is worth noting that our technical experience with Industria 2 varied quite a bit between two different PC setups. On one AMD-based setup, which included Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, and a Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU, the experience of playing Industria 2 started on a frustrating note. After some time spent on shader compilation, the DirectX 12 version of Industria 2 seems to have trouble understanding some of the graphics settings I chose.

Among other things, despite the fact that I manually set the in-game resolution to be my monitor’s native one—2560×1440—the game itself refuses to go beyond 1920×1080. Stranger still, there doesn’t seem to be any way for players with AMD graphics cards to disable frame generation. While the feature seems to be baked into the toggles for FSR, Nvidia users, on the other hand, can find a separate setting to enable or disable frame generation.

This has also meant that, when playing the DirectX 12 version of Industria 2 which supports full ray tracing, I also have to deal with input lag thanks to the frame generation, making the gameplay experience as a whole feel a lot more sluggish than it should. With Steam’s overlay helpfully telling me that I was maintaining around 150 FPS with frame generation, an option to disable it while still getting over 60 FPS would have been my preferred way of experiencing the first-person horror adventure game. This ultimately led me to play the DirectX 11 version of Industria 2, which is referred to by the studio as its “Performance Mode”.

Speaking of performance, I was able to maintain stable frame rates regardless of whether I was playing the DirectX 12 “Ray Tracing” version or the DirectX 11 “Performance Mode” version. The former, as I mentioned, was running at around 150 FPS with frame generation, which would put its true frame rate at around 70, while the latter basically ran at between 80 and 100 FPS throughout.

"Interact with a wooden plank, for example, at a slightly off angle, and you’re likely to see it fly away into space."

When it comes to the game itself, I would be remiss to not mention the sheer number of bugs related to physics, movement, and even NPC chatter triggers that I experienced throughout my time with the game on my AMD set up. Interact with a wooden plank, for example, at a slightly off angle, and you’re likely to see it fly away into space. Movement also feels strange; aside from the general sluggishness brought on by frame generation, there are also quite a few invisible walls that tend to completely halt your momentum.

One memorable (and downright hilarious) bug I experienced in the earlier parts of Industria 2 was the fact that crafting bullets kept prompting the nearby NPC to give me the entire bullet crafting tutorial again. While this last one didn’t really impede my progress throughout the game or make things less fun on a second-to-second basis, it still acted as a major indicator that Bleakmill needed to spend a lot more time on polishing Industria 2 before releasing it.

However, on our Nvidia-based setup, the experience was noticeably smoother. Running the game on an RTX 3080 Ti, a Ryzen 9 5950X, without DLSS, Industria 2 delivered decent overall performance. There were noticeable drops in some outdoor areas, but the game was generally stable and playable. I did not encounter the same crash-heavy experience, though I did run into one serious progression-blocking bug that forced me to reload the entire chapter. That was messy and frustrating, but it was not enough to completely derail the overall experience. Updates have already addressed some issues, but Industria 2 still feels like a game that would benefit from more polish.

As for the game itself, Industria 2 is a first-person action horror game in the vein of something like Resident Evil Village, where your time will often be split between slow, methodical exploration and intense combat against horrifying monstrosities. The twist here is that, rather than simply pressing a button to open a door, you have to hold down the interact key, the left click in my case, and drag the door open.

This has the side effect of making the game’s world feel like a more real place where physics seem to apply, and even makes encounters with enemies a scarier prospect, since you can’t simply open a door to quickly run past them.

"Once you get past its rough edges, Industria 2 can often be quite fun."

The Resident Evil influences in Industria 2 go deeper than just genre conventions as well. Aside from concepts like scarcity of ammo and limited inventory space, there is also a crafting system that encourages you to take your time in exploring the world behind you. Interestingly, the crafting system also led to me never having to worry about my ammo counts, since I always had enough to simply craft more bullets. Speaking of which, the arsenal in Industria 2 isn’t particularly interesting, but it does offer the kind of power curve you would expect, starting you off with an axe before giving you a pistol, a shotgun, and more.

Once you get past its rough edges, Industria 2 can often be quite fun. The title does a great job of setting up tense moments where you often have to make split-second decisions about whether you should sneak past the hostile robots or simply take them out, and you’ll often have to juggle this with solving some nearby puzzles. Even the pacing is quite well done, and while it starts slow, things quickly escalate once you’ve wrapped up the opening, gotten your hands on a gun, and have to travel to a new area.

The crafting system is also decent. It is not especially deep, but it gives exploration more purpose and makes resource management feel meaningful without becoming annoying. Weapon progression follows a similarly simple but effective structure. You can upgrade your weapons and feel a gradual sense of growth without the system getting in the way of the game’s pacing.

Enemy variety is decent as well, with enough different threats to keep encounters from becoming completely repetitive. The AI could definitely be sharper, and enemies do not always react as intelligently as they should, but the it works within the game’s slower and more deliberate structure.

"The art style gives the game a strong identity, and its industrial environments, strange machinery, and unsettling atmosphere do a lot of heavy lifting."

The visuals are one of the stronger areas of Industria 2. The art style gives the game a strong identity, and its industrial environments, strange machinery, and unsettling atmosphere do a lot of heavy lifting. The sound department is less impressive. It gets the job done, but for a game so dependent on atmosphere, it could have done more to heighten tension, sell environmental details, and make combat feel more impactful.

Level design is also uneven. Industria 2 often presents spaces that look more open or explorable than they actually are, with plenty of closed doors and blocked routes that can make areas feel more restrictive than expected. It is not a deal-breaker, because the overall structure still works, but it does occasionally make exploration feel less natural than it should.

The story of Industria 2 picks up some time after the events of its 2023 predecessor. The game puts you in the shoes of Nora, trapped in an alternate version of Germany where an AI named ATLAS is running things and creating horrific creatures. Despite your best efforts in the previous game, you find yourself still stuck in this alternate world, looking for a way to get back to your own dimension while also dodging the strange things ATLAS has created. The premise and story are quite interesting, and do a lot to offset some of the more annoying aspects of the game.

Industria 2 is a rough but worthwhile sequel. Its technical state is uneven, and our experience varied significantly between two PC setups, with one AMD-based configuration facing far more serious issues than an Nvidia-based one. It also has some awkward level design, AI that could be better, and at least one serious progression-blocking bug that forced a chapter reload.

Even so, its slow and methodical gameplay, decent crafting, simple but effective weapon progression, solid enemy variety, strong visual identity, and compelling atmosphere make it easier to appreciate than its roughest moments suggest. It needed more polish, and players should be aware that the technical experience may vary, but there is enough here to recommend it to fans of atmospheric first-person horror adventures.

This game was reviewed on PC.

If you’ve been ignoring this one, the game’s launch trailer (showcased below) might change your mind. If you liked its predecessor, this one is shaping up to be a very potent follow-up to everything that made your time with Nora in her first outing so hauntingly memorable. The story follows her efforts to return to her world after being trapped in a parallel dimension following the first game’s events. She’s essentially alone, although she does make a few friends along the way, and will have to be quite judicious in her use of some cool weapons if she wants to survive a bunch of threats that are looking quite formidable.

Expect to be on the edge of your seats if you decide to dive into this one, and be ready to bring some tactical thinking to the table as you manage your arsenal and inventory in your effort to see Nora through to the end of her adventure. Of course, there’s always the scope for this one to set up another outing for her. We’re quite eager to find out if that’s the case, if we’re being honest.

Irrespective of whether or not that turns out to be true, Industria 2 is shaping up to be a thrilling time on PC. Check out our feature for everything you should know.

With a strong survival horror influence underpinning its immersion, here are fifteen things to know about INDUSTRIA 2.

Game Overview

INDUSTRIA 2 is shaping up to be a tightly focused, narrative-driven first-person shooter that places its bleak, monochromatic atmosphere squarely in the crosshairs. You’ll once again step into the shoes of Nora, a scientist trapped in a surreal parallel dimension. Picking things up after she’s sought refuge in an abandoned location, she ventures out into the post-industrial world for a sequel which appears committed to delivering an introspective, story-led experience. This time around, exploration is poised to carry as much weight as the gunplay itself.

Slow and Methodical

INDUSTRIA 2 is the polar opposite to a run-and-gun shooter. It follows a deliberate, survival horror-like pace, where otherworldly forests, ghost towns, and mechanical factories alike demand patience and solemn observation. Enemies appear entirely robotic, and they’re not always thrown at you in waves. Instead, they’re placed with care, turning every confrontation into a tense exchange. In INDUSTRIA 2, a chaotic approach rarely prevails.

An Unsettlingly Personal Story

INDUSTRIA established the parallel world overruled by rogue AI ATLAS, but common complaints centred on the low emotional stakes in what was a promising premise. As a course correction, this sequel appears to dig deeper into Nora’s past, as it has been revealed that she may have played a significant role in the creation of the very machines that haunt the world she’s stranded in. This revelation should add an air of unsettling accountability to her journey, reframing each encounter as something more personal.

Diegetic Systems Ground Immersion

Immersion is clearly a priority for this sequel – frankly, it is in any game – but in adopting diegetic inventory and crafting systems INDUSTRIA 2 hopes to ground immersion with tangible mechanics. See, rather than pulling you out of the world into abstract menus, these systems – like the inventory scroll she whips out of her backpack – are integrated directly into Nora’s reality. There’s the sense that everything from managing resources to building tools is designed to enforce believability against the preternatural backdrop.

The World is a Post-Industrial Nightmare

Parts of INDUSTRIA 2’s setting lean heavily into post-industrial decay, where sprawling, impossible architecture appears constructed from organic machinery. These locations bring to mind Armored Core’s colossal factories, and perhaps even the biomechanical nightmare of Scorn. It’s a world where towering structures and labyrinthine spaces create unease through their defiance of logic, and we’ve more to say on the bio-horror angle later.

Five Distinct Weapon Types and Craftable Explosives

Combat will revolve around five distinct weapon types, however these don’t appear to be high-end, complex military-grade firearms but the more ramshackle pistols, shotguns, rifles and the like you find in Stalker. Further, each weapon can be upgraded with various attachments – silencers, extended magazines, special firing mods – suggesting a progression system which honours investment and experimentation with numerous possible loadouts. Elsewhere, explosives in the shape of small firebombs are craftable, adding another tactical option when overwhelmed with enemies.

Enhanced Melee

Compared to its predecessor, where clunky pickaxe melee was a common painpoint, INDUSTRIA 2 appears to place greater emphasis on close-quarters combat. That said, melee-only runs don’t seem possible, more that scattered detritus can be grabbed and used in situ – metal pipes, and so on. In the sequel’s Steam demo, melee weapons will break after a few swings. In terms of game design, this ensures found items can be used spontaneously, but not wholly relied upon. Yet, it can erode immersion when something metallic only lasts a few hits before snapping. It’ll be interesting to see how the devs balance this in the finished game.

Bio-Mechanical Horror

The developers have been upfront about the body horror, specifically mentioning robotic and bio-mechanical viscera. While the original INDUSTRIA included unsettling visuals, this sequel sounds like it’s pushing the techno-gore much further, potentially into disturbing territory. Whether it reaches this intensity remains to be seen, but with the sequel exploring numerous decrepit, claustrophobic environments, amplified body horror would certainly mirror the tone.

Powered by Unreal Engine 5

Built in Unreal Engine 5, INDUSTRIA 2 brings a noticeable leap in visual fidelity. Immediately present is the wholesale use of Lumen’s dynamic lighting potential, punctuating the oppressive darkness of industrial interiors with sparse illumination that bounces and reflects believably. Environments are more detailed, textures are rich with weather and decay, and physics-based interactions impart a tactile feel to moving objects, plugging cables, and crafting ammo. Let’s hope INDUSTRIA 2 isn’t plagued by the same performance issues affecting other titles made in UE5, as the shift in visual immersiveness the engine brings is proving dramatic.

A Short, Focused Experience

The first INDUSTRIA had a runtime of four hours, which many, as already alluded to, feel didn’t provide ample-enough time for the narrative to bloom. Well, INDUSTRIA 2 isn’t set to break the mould already set out by its predecessor in campaign length. This one’s slated to run for approximately four-to-six hours. However, the devs have been vocal about acting on feedback, and while the sequel is indeed another short experience, they’re assuring us that it will be a tightly focused, highly curated experience, where brevity works in the narrative’s favour.

Sound Design Is a Core Pillar

Interestingly, the game’s Steam page highlights sound design as a key pillar to the overall experience. We say interesting, as this isn’t something every shooter calls attention too, suggesting INDUSTRIA 2’s immersive-sim elements will dominate over gunplay. Audio, then, will build tension, whether through environmental ambience, mechanical echoes, or ghostlike murmurs hanging in stale air. That said, footsteps, weapon reloading, the sound of Nora’s opening backpack, each of these sounds is sharply polished too, supporting the Steam description’s audio-centric pledge.

Influence Shifts Toward Survival Horror

While the original INDUSTRIA wore it’s Half-Life inspirations openly, all this emphasis on detailed lighting, tactile sound design, and shuffling investigation points to the sequel taking a different route. Evidently, the developers are looking toward modern survival horror to establish the sequel’s aesthetic, explaining its careful mix of exploration and combat to heighten tension, alongside an increased emphasis on scarce ammunition and resource management.

Overhauled Enemy AI

Enemy behaviour has been upgraded for this sequel. Rather than simply reacting to your actions, enemies now inhabit environments befitting of their design – humanoid robots follow patrol routes, mechanical arachnids scurry through dusty burrows, and humans tiptoe with the same trepidation you likely will. However, during a gameplay trailer, whereby the player shoots a room-scanning tripod in earshot of three human explorers, the AI doesn’t showcase behaviour exactly how you’d expect enemies in the vicinity of gunfire to react. However, that footage was taken from gameplay earlier in development. Hopefully, the same situation in the finished game will yield enemies who startle at the pop of gunfire, as less predictable enemies leads to more threatening encounters.

Release Date and Platforms

INDUSTRIA 2 launches on April 15th. On release, it’ll be a PC-exclusive, with Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store currently listing the game for pre-order. Currently, consoles haven’t been officially announced. The first INDUSTRIA saw its console version arrive nine-months after the original launch, so something similar can’t be ruled out here.

PC Requirements

To adequately run INDUSTRIA 2, you’ll need at minimum an Intel i5-8600, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, or equivalent CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or similar GPU, and 8GB RAM. Recommended hardware, as per the game’s Steam page, includes an Intel i7-8700K CPU, GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, and 16GB RAM. The game also requires 20GB storage.

Discussing how disappointed the team is to be announcing the delay, it noted that the team’s journey had begun ten years ago, with many of the developers only working on the project in their free time. The studio has thanked fans for caring so much about the “crazy project we have been working on for years now.”

“Turns out finishing a high fidelity single-player FPS campaign with a team of 8 is hard,” wrote the studio. “We are punching above our weight with this one once again. On one hand, this is exactly why it’s exciting for us and apparently for a lot of people out there. Hearing from players and testers that this game sometimes can feel close to the games that inspired us growing up, like Half-Life, Bioshock, and Resident Evil, is unbelievably beautiful and motivating.”

“On the other hand, it’s sometimes overwhelmingly difficult for our tiny team scattered around the globe to make it fully click without burning out and being able to pay everyone fairly every month. A hard balance between passion and the reality of paying bills that most creatives out there face.”

In the meantime, the studio has decided to placate those looking forward to playing Industria 2 by releasing one of the songs from its soundtrack – Hint of Light – which has been composed by No Bloom Now and could be heard in the game’s teaser trailer.

“We totally get all the potential frustration from the delay. It just needs a little bit more time in the oven. For a small and agile team like ours, these two weeks go a long way,” wrote Bleakmill.

Industria 2 is going to be set two years after the events of the first game, with players taking on the role of returning protagonist Nora, who happens to be trapped in a parallel dimension between machine-built walls. Nora’s journey of trying to get back to her home in 1989 East-Berlin continues, while she makes use of an abandoned chapel near the coast as her base of operations, while exploring the parallel dimension, where she will also have to deal with sinister AI ATLAS.

The title got a trailer focusing on its story back in March 2025, which gave us a look at how it will double down on its predecessor’s horror shooter vibes. We got to see how players will have to sneak around strange monstrosities in a dilapidated building, while also being armed with a shotgun. Resource management seems to be a key aspect of gameplay, since the trailer’s player was hesitant in taking on the enemies.

Bleakmill has said that Industria 2 will focus on immersive gameplay through physics-based interactions with the world around the player. Along with this, there will also be a crafting system, as well as an inventory system that has been described as diegetic. Over the course of the game, players will be able to get their hands on five weapons, each of which can be upgraded with various attachments.

Industria 2 is being developed for PC. For more, check out our review of the original Industria.

Developed by Bleakmill and published by Headup, this one’s an interesting survival horror shooter that puts you in the shoes of Nora, the returning protagonist from the first title, who is grappling with its events while trying to make her way back home to 1989 Berlin. Her efforts are thwarted by ATLAS, a rogue AI that is seemingly connected to the sinister machines and automatons standing between Nora and her goals.

We were quite impressed by the first title’s storytelling and world-building, although we did lament its clunky controls and technical issues in our review. However, the sequel could finally perfect the formula and deliver a better experience as a result. The gameplay loop looks quite ambitious this time around, and it’s a thankfully short while before we can dive in and find out. Although the new trailer doesn’t reveal too much about the game, it’s still worth watching for you to get some context about what’s going on before you dive in.

The trailer indicates that Industria 2 will be doubling down on its predecessor’s horror shooter vibes. A brief look at the gameplay from the start of the trailer shows us the protagonist loading up their shotgun with some shells as they explore a dilapidated building.

In this building, the player has to sneak around some sort of monstrosities. When there are too many of them, the player has to resort to shooting some of them while also trying to escape.

On escaping, the trailer switches to showcase more of the story in Industria 2. The shooter will revolve around protagonist Nora having to figure out a way to get home alongside Marlene. The central question driving the story of Industria 2 will be about the sinister AI ATLAS.

Industria 2 is set two years after the events of the first game. Players take on the role of Nora, who is trapped in a parallel dimension between machine-built walls. While Nora has an abandoned chapel near the coast as her main base of operations, she is trying to figure out a way to get back to her home in 1989 East-Berlin.

Along the way, Nora will have to deal with several obstacles, the least of which will be ATLAS. The game will revolve around Nora coming to terms with her past and having to face the consequences of her previous actions, which are seemingly linked to the creation of ATLAS in some way.

The gameplay in Industria 2 will focus on presenting players with immersive gameplay through the use of physics-based interactions. There will also be a crafting system, as well as an inventory system described by the developers as diegetic. Paired with this will be a unique setting that features industrial decay and a boreal landscape, complete with otherworldly structures and creatures.

As part of the game’s crafting system, players will also be able to upgrade their arsenal of five weapons. These upgrades come in the form of various attachments, like extended magazines, silencers, or even more unique attachments that provide special attacks.

The studio has noted that, while Industria 2 will feature a core narrative that players can follow, it will be light on cutscenes. The title, inspired by the storytelling techniques of seminal shooter Half-Life 2, will feature in-game cutscenes that present the story will still giving players plenty of freedom.

Industria 2 is being developed for PC and is slated for release in 2025. As its name might imply, the title is a follow-up to 2022’s Industria.

We reviewed the original Industria on the Xbox Series X/S, giving it a score of 6 out of 10. While we praised the title’s storytelling and world building, as well as its visuals and atmosphere, the cumbersome movement, dull combat, as well as an array of technical issues were problems.