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The Man from the Window 2 is a 2023 short third-person horror game created by Zed_Technician released in early January.

It happens in the same timeline as The Man from the Window, and features the same characters. The Time Skip that happens between games appears to have been years. Mama Rabbit, the protagonist of both games, is now a retired grandma. Junior, Mama Rabbit's son, is all grown up now and has a job at a shipping company, and is physically absent for most of the game. Junior now has a daughter of his own, and her name is Audrey. She takes up Junior's role from the first game as the one who you need to choose where they hide from The Man.

Just as Mama Rabbit finishes up a phone call with Junior, mentioning that she ordered takeout for herself and Audrey, she hears a knock at the door. Thinking that it's the takeout she ordered, she opens the door to find no one there. Once she looks down at her feet, however, she sees a book that she knows all too well...with an anomalous creature hunting her and Audrey down and her only defense being a limerick-filled book, Mama Rabbit has only 5 minutes before The Man begins his search for his new friend...

The game is available for purchase at $1 or more on itch.io.


This game contains examples of:

  • Big Bad: The Man from the Window returns as the main villain.
  • Cat Scare: In the good ending, after The Man leaves, there's another knock at the door that scares Audrey. Mama opens the door to find the takeout she mentioned she ordered at the start of the game. This will either be left unattended or, in the true ending, delivered by J.P. Vermander.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: When the book appears at Mama Rabbit's doorstep, she doesn't appear nearly as frightened as last time. Her and Audrey's dialogue almost sounds bored when they talk about it, and it's implied that the amount of times that this has happened to the family since the first game is way more than just this one time.
  • Disappeared Dad: Once again, Junior's dad is nowhere to be found.
  • Failed a Spot Check: The washtub returns in this game as a hiding place. They won't be hidden from sight at all in the washtub, but The Man will still never find them if he isn't specifically checking it.
  • Granny Classic: In this game, Mama Rabbit is this after the Time Skip. She's retired from the baking company she worked for in the first game after 38 years of service, and is a grandma to the now grown-up Junior's daughter.
  • He's All Grown Up: Junior has grown into adulthood by the time of this game starts and even has a daughter on his own.
  • It Can Think: The Man seems to be learning from his failures to capture the Rabbit family, showing that he isn't a mindless evil spirit. To ensure the success of his twisted game of hide and seek, he rips out pages from the book and scatters them around the apartment to make Mama Rabbit waste time looking for them, the precious time she could use to hide her granddaughter Audrey from him. He also spies from unchecked windows to see which place Mama Rabbit will hide Audrey.
  • Jump Scare: If you hide Audrey in a place that's near a window (which is basically everywhere) without closing the shutters, like the bed in the bedroom, and you quickly look outside the window, you will see The Man peering at you before going out of view. This is one of the only times we see The Man's entire body.
  • Killed Offscreen: Getting any of the bad endings results in this.
    • If Audrey gets caught by The Man, Junior gets a call from home while still at work which is just a bunch of garbled static. After a few moments, the line goes dead and Junior rushes home, sensing that something is amiss. What he comes back to at the house is up to the player's interpretation.
    • If Mama Rabbit gets found instead, Junior will come home after work to a crying, curled up Audrey on the living room floor. He immediately rushes over to comfort his daughter, but she's too traumatized to speak. Junior doesn't need to see the book before assuming that The Man took Mama.
  • Missing Mom: Just like Junior's dad, Audrey's mom is absent from this game and is never even brought up. See a pattern here?
  • Nothing Is Scarier:
    • Even two games in, we still never get any idea on what The Man is. He's a cryptid, sure, but where did he come from? Is he part of a species? Are there more Men out there? Is this Man that hunts us down in the second game even the same guy in the first?
    • The Man obviously does horrid things to whatever friends he finds, but Audrey is the only one to ever see it happen. In a bad ending of the first game, Junior comes out of hiding only after his mom gets taken. He doesn't actually see what happened to his mom, but in this game, Audrey obviously did. In this game, when you get the bad ending where Mama gets taken, whatever Audrey witnessed clearly has her traumatized.
  • Obliviously Evil: Implied. While The Man breaks in to people's homes and takes them away, there isn't any evidence that The Man takes enjoyment out of this or even realizes what he's doing.
  • Smash to Black: If The Man finds Mama or Audrey, it cuts to black before giving the appropriate bad ending scene, depending on which one he found.
  • There Was a Door: In the last game, The Man would spend entire minutes breaking down the door depending on what locks or barricades the player put in place to stop him. In this game, however, The Man rushes up the stairs to their apartment and body slams the door, immediately breaking the lock and beginning the search.
  • Timed Mission: Mama and Audrey have 5 minutes between the reading of the book and when The Man shows up. There's a loose timer in game that shows how much time the player has left to gather the pages and hide, that being the various digital clocks around the house. They start at 7:55 P.M. Along with that, The Man has 5 minutes to find one of the members of the rabbit family before he has to leave. In this game, he will run out of spots to search before time runs out, but will leave anyway.
  • Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: All your preparations become moot if you didn't shut the blinds as The Man can see where you hid. He won't bother with the sequence in the book and go straight for the hiding spot you chose.

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