$14.99Outlast Hide, run, survive the dark
A first-person horror chase through a grim asylum where the camera is your only tool and every corner hides something worse.
Is Outlast worth it?
Outlast is worth it if…
- you want a horror game where you are helpless and hiding is your only defence
- you like short, intense campaigns you can finish in a few evenings
- you enjoy dark stories told through documents and exploration
- you can handle gore, disturbing scenes and constant jump scares
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No weapons, no way out, only hiding
You cannot fight anyone in Outlast. Your character is a reporter, not a soldier, and the game never lets you forget it: when one of the asylum's residents comes at you, the only options are to run or to squeeze into a locker, under a bed, or into a dark corner and hope he moves on. Stealth is the whole game, with parkour-style scrambling over obstacles when a corridor stops being safe. The tension comes from not knowing when or from where an enemy will catch up, and from watching one search the exact hiding spot you are crouched behind. It is difficult, and it is meant to be.
A camcorder, a notebook and a very dark asylum
Your only tools are a camcorder and a notebook. The camera's night vision is how you see anything in the asylum's pitch-black halls, and it drains batteries, so you scavenge for spares while deciding whether the next room is worth lighting up at all. The notebook fills with documents you find in drawers and offices, and reading them is how the story of Murkoff's experiments comes together: you can follow the main events alone or dig for every file and learn far more about what happened here. The sound design carries a lot of the dread, from footsteps behind you to distant screaming, and the graphics make the whole place feel grimly real.
Can you play it more than once?
Can you play Outlast with friends?
No, this is a singleplayer game with no multiplayer modes. That is very much the point: you are alone in the asylum, nobody is coming to help, and every decision about when to hide, when to run and when to spend battery power is yours alone. If you want to share the experience, taking turns while someone watches is the usual way.
Is Outlast too scary or too violent for some players?
Quite possibly. The game contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content and strong language, and it leans on jump scares as well as a constant, oppressive atmosphere. The enemies are not monsters but people, twisted by experiments, which many find more disturbing than any creature would be. If you are sensitive to disturbing imagery, this one is genuinely not for you.
