The gameplay of White Album 2 follows a linear plotline which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction.

The player's only interaction with the game during the "introductory chapter" and "mini after story" is to click a button to advance the game by rolling the next line of text onto the screen, while both "closing chapter" and "coda" requires comprehensive multiple choice questions to handle the trend of the plot development.

[3] The story of Introductory Chapter begins around the second half of October[6] with Haruki Kitahara and Takeya Iizuka troubled over the fact that all the band members they gathered for the school festival have left.

[6] They perform Yuki Morikawa's "White Album",[13] Rina Ogata's "Sound of Destiny", and an original song named "Todokanai Koi".

The director, artist, and character designer for White Album 2 is Takeshi Nakamura[3] who had previously worked on Leaf's other games such as December When There Is No Angel[17] and the PlayStation 3 port of Tears to Tiara.

[20] Despite being busy with Kimi ga Yobu, Megido no Oka de and the PlayStation 3's Tears to Tiara, Nakamura went ahead and created the character designs for the game even though no one had asked him for them.

[17] Unlike December When There is No Angel where there were two artists, Nakamura is alone this time and has to work on both the heroines and the supporting characters, making it a rather big effort.

[17][21] Both the limited and regular editions of Introductory Chapter were originally planned to be released on February 26, 2010 but was delayed to March 26.

[23] Haruki Kitahara, Setsuna Ogiso, and Kazusa Touma are voiced by Takahiro Mizushima, Madoka Yonezawa, and Hitomi Nabatame respectively.

A 13-episode television series anime adaptation of White Album 2 was announced in the May 2013 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Newtype magazine.

[24] Fumiaki Maruto, the scenario writer for the original games, supervised and wrote the series' scripts and composer Naoya Shimokawa served as the music producer for the anime.

In 2017, a CD called "White Album 2: Soundtrack ~Kazusa~" was released, with songs of the visual novel sung by Kazusa Touma (Hitomi Nabatame), one of the heroines of the game.

The opening theme to Closing Chapter, "Shiawase na Kioku" (幸せな記憶), was also sung by Rena Uehara.

Introductory Chapter tied for second place in bishōjo game preorders in Japan between the months of December 2009 and January 2010.

[30] According to Polygon, Famitsu gave White Album 2 (PS3 version) a 37/40, being the top scorer of the week and beating New Super Mario Bros. U.