

Of course, the absurdly macabre goals you’re presented with merely serve as complicated and unavoidably noisy chores that you’re expected to perform as numerous psychopaths hunt you, drawn to the sound of your actions. There’s another where you have to punish a group of wicked animatronic children by shoving them into a meat grinder, working around various obstacles as you slowly push the cart of misbehaving dolls toward their demise. At least when South Park does it it’s usually funny.Įach of the three maps in the early access version has its own bizarre and twisted objectives that must be completed before your untimely death, like one where you’re forced to turn an impure orphanage into a malevolent religious establishment by replacing all the secular materials with unholy profanity. I get that shock and gratuitous violence is sorta the whole point, but it often feels like they’re trying so hard to be gross and extreme or make some kind of unsubtle statement that I just shook my head at the tactless, edgelordian overkill. One level features a maniacal police officer who enjoys tasering his own genitals and rattles off nonsense like “I don’t recognize this country anymore,” while in another you’re repeatedly shown a bunch of penises for seemingly no reason at all, and then forced to recreate a crucifixion for an audience of school children. The camcorder is battery operated and includes night vision, which is used to navigate through dark areas.That said, even when treated with the unseriousness and gore-filled levity that I think The Outlast Trials is going for, the over-the-top violence, deeply unsexy lechery, and extremely on-the-nose subject matter can be a bit much sometimes. The only item players will have equipped is a camcorder.

Closing doors will impede enemies and squeezing through small spaces can lose them. When running, the player can look back at their pursuer. However, enemies will look for them in these areas, so care must be taken. Players can hide in lockers and under beds. Combat is not possible and attempts to confront an enemy will result in death. In order to survive, the player must either run or hide from enemies. Outlast is a true survival horror experience which aims to show that the most terrifying monsters of all come from the human mind. Once inside, his only hope of escape lies with the terrible truth at the heart of Mount Massive.

Acting on a tip from an anonymous source, independent journalist Miles Upshur breaks into the facility, and what he discovers walks a terrifying line between science and religion, nature and something else entirely.
