Okay so I just solved Evil Within last night! Cool ride, really enjoyed it - probably the first "later Resident Evil" style horror game I've ever played. Liked the close in / tight combat camera and while I "stressed" a bit in the early game after reading you had to make your character "just right" and worrying that I was wasting resources to hunt green gel, or saving resources and MISSING too much gel, after just settling in and "playing" it was a much more enjoyable experience ;)


QUESTIONS THOUGH (can we take this into spoiler territory?) SPOILERS



What happened at the end? Is this a typical Japanese survival horror where you have to beat the game three times to figure out the "true" ending? Did I miss too many news clippings?

I "get" what happened with Leslie - but why does Sebastian "exit" STEM twice? Was I supposed to figure out on my own what happened to his wife or does that get sorted in EW2?

Where does Kidman come in? She's the one who looks like she (and her "group") are still in STEM AFTER Seb gets out, but then she "leaves" "them" and he gets out again?

No. I think I said it before, but so few things truly matter in the setup between these two games. The only things that matter are Mobius, STEM, Juli Kidman and Sebastian.

You find out what happened with Myra in the sequel.

Awesome thank you for this! Appreciate the confirmation - jumping into Human Revolution next but will get to EW 2 at some point (unless I delay it to my "Halloween" game next Fall ;) ).

Have you played the DLC as well? For lore purposes playing The Assignment and The Consequence will flesh things out more, and I recommend playing those before starting TEW2, you can skip The Executioner without missing out on much. The gameplay's a bit different as there's a new flashlight-puzzle mechanic introduced, and there's no green gel and little to no ammo to deal with.

I didn't - I was on the fence about grabbing them and held off.

I read that they did a bit to flesh out the story (Kidman's role and such) but opted to pass and "go back" if I really liked the story. Now I'm sort of questioning that - though maybe I can grab them later and play them as sort of a "refresher" before EW 2. Are they pretty long? This is actually a case where I feel like a few hours - for me - would be better than another full length (or even 10 hour) game.

The Assignment and The Consequence can be completed in about 2 hours each, the Executioner can be done in an hour and half or less. And you can wait till you're about to start EW2, they will work as a refresher given how EW2 begins, better I think than the EW base game ending.

That sounds perfect actually - yeah I'll have to give these a shot before I jump back in to the world.

Please bring this sale back, otherwise we might miss these games forever.

Hello. A few months ago, an update was released that includes one more difficulty and several cheats (like three). Is this update already in the gog version or do need to go to the official website (bethesda.net) as in the steam version to get it?

I dare say that both versions are out of date. 1 is at 1.0 and 2 is at 1.04. Unlikely that any patch/update that's available on Steam or Bethesda's website has made it here ...

I advise you to post a dedicated thread with your question over at dedicated subforum.
Your question should get far more traction there (after all THIS thread is already rather old and not many people frequented in the first place).
https://www.gog.com/forum/the_evil_within_series#1606449712

(edit: forgot to put in the link)

I get it. It's a pity. The second part seems to be the same as in steam. I hope that it will be possible to install the latest patch from site for the version with gog, but I will not check, I will buy it on steam.

Well the last known patch came out on Steam on 14.02.2018 and it's called 1.04.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/601430/discussions/0/1700542968202975758/
Meanwhile there was only one build of TEW 2 on GOG since launch and it's 1.04.
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1083619800#builds
I am ASSUMING what is on GOG is equal to latest Steam patch...

I know about the Bethesda account thing. But I never went through the process (I do own the game on Steam) so don't know the details.
Do you get external patch file there?

But I do too wonder if it's integrated in GOG release.