Oh my god, Shift 2 is so, so good! I spent all day playing through the different choices and making sure I didn't miss any small details! Biker Boy is so cute in his route, so charming and unsure —but downright terrifying if the player goes down Lane's route or even makes neutral decisions. I felt actual whiplash at the pure menace at the end of playing through the more neutral route and not unlocking scenes. I forgot this was a horror game for a second. It's so masterfully foreboding and creepy that the juxtaposition made me like Biker Boy even more! And I was so so so unprepared for how masterfully you wrote Lane and his confrontation!
And I feel like you've written Lane to give players the exact feeling that the player character feels about him in game. His words and actions piss me off so bad through the screen but then he'll say something actually funny and I catch myself smiling and kind of charmed!
The new navigation system was also a ton of fun! I'm a completionist, so I did all my chores and explored every item. It was so enjoyable to do that I almost wanted there to be more tasks lol.
And your use of foreshadowing literally had me clawing at the walls!! The bit with the old man had me almost screaming because that analogy works so well?? And then you literally prove what he said in Lane's route and I was banging the keyboard with my fists, I was so excited!!! I'm chomping at the bit to know more about the world and the player character's past. Thank you so much for creating this game for players, I've had so much fun playing it!!!