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Retrowave Studios · Published by Retrowave Studios
Content notice: This game features Pixel Art depicting flesh and blood. And also features detailed text-based death scenes.
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Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Michael Longhurst had just survived a terrible ordeal at Hartown Park. Two months later, he returns with his partner, Ethan. As they try and uncover the cursed history of the Longhurst Family.
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Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2023 · More £5 - £15 games
Explore The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows, an action-adventure RPG from Retrowave Studios. Join Michael and Ethan as they uncover the Longhurst Family’s dark legacy in Hartown Park.
About this game
The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows is the sequel to The Clown's Forest and will contain spoilers for the first game.
-STORY-
Michael Longhurst had just survived a terrible ordeal at Hartown Park. His mind was reeling from what he found out during the nights events. Due to this, he along with his brother, fiancé, and his fiancé's brother make plans to return to Hartown Park to find Michael's Mother and figure out a way to end the curse of Blitzo.
Michael partners up with Ethan as they go back to Hartown Park as they explore the abandoned Longhurst Asylum, and the lonely Longhurst Estate hidden deep within the forest. What they find out will shake them to their core, and the stakes have never been higher. A second clown join's the fray and the disturbing past of the Longhurst family is revealed.
Can Michael and Ethan stop the evil Blitzo with their allies, or will they both succumb to Blitzo's wrath?
-Gameplay Features-
Chapter-Based Gameplay - The story is segmented into chapters to make the story flow better
New Chase Mechanics - Blitzo is more dangerous than he was in the original game. He can now follow you between maps in a relentless pursuit
Boss Fights - A first for the series, Boss Fights are implemented to add higher stakes to the game
Exploration - A lot of care has gone into making the world for this game, there is plenty of places to explore and try and find secrets
Collectibles - Secrets are hidden amongst the world, whether they be notes or tokens and dolls, they are dotted around for those who want an extra challenge
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-8100H or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 960 or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: 7.1
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood - Coming 2027!
Hello Everyone!Today I would like to announce The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood It is a game set concurrently alongside The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows. So what is Shadows of Blood? Well, Shadows of Blood focuses on Officer Dragon, set after the events of Chapter 0 of The Clown's Forest 2. Officer Dragon was kidnapped by Chester, and taken to a familiar location. But, unfortunately... Blitzo isn't too keen on letting you escape. Officer Dragon needs to try and escape from Blitzo, while you meet familiar and unfamiliar faces.This game initially started development as a Bonus Campaign for The Clown's Forest 2. The reason I turned it into a separate game is because there hasn't actually been a standalone game in the series since September 2023. (These past three years I have been focused on fixing bugs and overhauling both the first and second games because I wasn't happy with them).This game is due out in early 2027, and is being developed alongside the last two games in the series. The Clown's Forest Zero: The Origins of Blitzo - Prequel set 10 years before TCF1 and 2, during the Hartown Amusement Park Massacre, following Oliver Fox and Joey Sawyer as they try and escape from the freshly murderous Blitzo.The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act - Set 6 years after TCF2, and 16 years after TCF Zero, Michael and Ethan began living a normal life, thinking Blitzo and Tabitha had finally given up. Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be that simple. Blitzo and Chester returned, kidnapping Michael, Cody, and Ethan, and taking them back to Hartown Park. One last time. Please Wishlist The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood here:Read full article on Community Announcements (Retrowave Studios)AnnouncementsOfficial
What is happening with The Clown's Forest 3?
Hello everyone!Today I want to tell you all the truth on what is ongoing with The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act, and The Clown's Forest series as a whole. As you know, I originally announced The Clown's Forest 3's Demo to release on May 15th, unfortunately, RPG Maker started giving me a lot of issues regarding the development such as unfixable bugs, crashes, corruptions, etc. I effectively lost 3 years of progress on The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act. I will be transparent that I have discovered the reasoning behind this. When I started working on The Clown's Forest back in 2022, the engine crashed, corrupting the whole project. Because of this, I had to reverse engineer the demo so I could continue development from that. After releasing The Clown's Forest, I duplicated the project and began working on the sequel, since I didn't want to rebuild it all from scratch. This made The Clown's Forest 2 a bit... unstable. I had a lot more crashes and issues. Then I did the same for The Clown's Forest 3 which ended up pushing the instability to it's limits.I discovered this by booting up an old spin-off project called 'Rosemary's Orphanage' and realizing none of the bugs I had on the Clown's Forest projects had carried over to this project since it wasn't a duplicated project, and was built from scratch. Because of this, The Clown's Forest 3 is temporarily cancelled and I am working on Rosemary's Orphanage while I work on the next instalment in The Clown's Forest series. The next game in the series will be 'The Clown's Forest: The Insanity Trilogy' a Remake of the first 2 games, and including a prequel game called 'The Clown's Forest 0: Origins of Blitzo' (I know, what an original name) All I request is patience as we begin working on a new chapter in this series. The Clown's Forest: The Insanity Trilogy will be different enough to where the original games, The Clown's Forest and The Clown's Forest 2 will not entirely be obsolete, but they will not be canon. (TCF2 actual...Read full article on Community Announcements (Retrowave Studios)Patch NotesOfficial
The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows Mini-Patch
Hello everyone! Just a small update to fix the fact I accidentally left in the Language Selection choices which is part of an upcoming update. When I patched the softlock in Chapter 2 I left the choices in the game. Currently the translations are unfinished, but once ready they will be re-implemented into the game!Read full article on Community Announcements (Retrowave Studios)Patch NotesOfficial
TCF2 Update 1.2 - Softlock Fix
I am pushing a small patch for The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows that fixes a softlock in Chapter 2, when you get to the Longhurst Asylum where you can re-enter the basement access room where you split up from Ethan, and it reactivated the cutscene which softlocked the game completely. Thank you Patergeist for reporting this issue to me!Read full article on Community Announcements (Retrowave Studios)Patch NotesOfficial
TCF2 Update 1.1
Here is a small patch for The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows, providing some bug fixes and other issues that were present in the game. Changelog: Fixed - Losing collisions when interacting with a ladder in Chapter 1. Fixed - a softlock where you could interact with the boltcutters in the wrong place and softlock the game in Chapter 2 Fixed - Grammar issues including spelling mistakes, misplaced or missing punctuation, and words that weren't present in voice acting being present in text. Fixed - Missing voice lines for Michael when interacting with his and Ethan's bed in Chapter 0 Fixed - Audio Balancing issues on Michael's dialogue throughout the whole game Fixed - Audio Balancing issues on some of Jerome's dialogues in Chapter 4 Fixed - Music playing when it wasn't supposed to. That is the full changelog list! If there is any bugs I have missed, please do not hesitate to post about them!Read full article on Community Announcements (Retrowave Studios)
