Red Spider 2: Exiled

About

Red Spider 2: Exiled is a visual novel set in a gritty Hong Kong underworld. You follow Lycoris, an ex-assassin caught between warring syndicates, police corruption, and personal betrayals. The story splits into six distinct routes with over 200,000 words of branching dialogue and choices that shape relationships and outcomes. Players navigate noir-inspired intrigue through static scenes, voice acting, and decision points that influence loyalty, survival, and revenge. The tone leans hard into moral ambiguity with no clear heroes or villains. The game stands out for its tangled narrative web and layered character dynamics. Set years before the events of Red Spider: Vengeance, it expands on the lore with cold-case investigations, double-crosses, and shifting alliances. While the visual style and soundtrack lean into moody HK crime tropes, the real draw is the slow-burn tension between characters like Lycoris, her cop pursuers, and the mob leaders hunting her. Fans of dialogue-driven mysteries with murky ethics will find plenty to unpack across multiple playthroughs.

Storyline

Lycoris was allegedly a hostess that worked at the KTV bar, but in reality, she was a member of an assassin syndicate called "the Web". She was working for Lau Kin Ming, a police inspector, to kill members of underworld mobs. One day, Lau Kin Ming ordered her to kill his subordinate, Lai, because Lai discovered that he's using an assassin syndicate. But she refused and killed Lau instead. As a result, she is currently being pursued by the syndicate and Lai introduced her to Yeung Kwun, the leader of the Red Flower Society, an underworld mob that operated in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Yeung Kwun sent her to Bangkok to hide her from the Web. In Bangkok, she happened to see Zhang Lei, her regular customer at KTV bar and also the leader of HH brothers, an underworld mob. Wolf, Lycoris' childhood friend, accompanied Zhang Lei. Meanwhile, a probationary inspector, Sam, and a senior constable, Chase, were investigateing the death of Lau Kin Ming. Looking for evidence of who murdered Lau, Sam found his colleague, Lai, was with a woman from CCTV footage. Sam suspected that Lai was involved in the murder.