The Outlast Trials
SYNOPSIS
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed.
SURVIVE: SOLO OR COOP
You’re all prisoners of Murkoff trapped inside their facility. You can choose to complete the trials by yourself or you can tackle them in a team of 2, 3, or 4 players.
HIDE OR FLIGHT
In pure Outlast fashion, the core gameplay involves avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to run away. Murkoff will provide tools you can use to increase your stealth capabilities, create opportunities to flee, slow down enemies, and more. However, you will have to earn those tools and work hard to improve them.
CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
Choose your tools, upgrades, and perks to fit your playstyle.Customize and create your own trial patient.Your cell is your home while you complete the therapy, you can decorate it however you wish.
INVESTIGATE
You’ve been abducted by the Murkoff Corporation to undergo unethical experiments that will modify your psyche and behavior throughout the Trials.Collect documents and items that will help prove Murkoff’s malpractice against its patients.
Content and Photosensitivity Warning:
The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that could cause a small percentage of people to experience seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images. This game also contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content, and strong language. Please enjoy.
Game Discussion
Steam User 371
In the first 2 minutes, the game hit me with naked male and female genitalia, sexual innuendos, racism, ableism, political hatred, religion, cocaine abuse, child endangerment and abuse, possible zoophilia, violence against animals, and lots, and lots of sexual and provocative imagery ... Game of the Year 10/10
Steam User 387
I was playing with a black character and my friend was playing with a white character and the cop decided to keep chasing me. Very realistic 10/10
Steam User 141
i can finally roleplay as a homeless man tossing glass bottles at the mentally unstable 10/10
Steam User 135
I've got 100+ hours in it now, almost all of that time playing solo. For anyone worried that you *need* a team, you absolutely do not. Solo has been great! Very much like the previous Outlast games but with new features and the added bonus of RNG (e.g. each trial is a crapshoot re: which doorways will be blocked, which items will be available to you and where, etc.). Lots of replay value! You're gonna spend a lot of time crouched, hiding, and sneaking in the dark holding your breath, punctuated by brief episodes of terror as you get chased around and barely escape with your life... or not.
My experience playing with others seems to corroborate what others are saying. Makes it less about stealth and more about a rushed smash'n'grab through the trial. That can be fun too! Feels a little less Outlasty that way, but just a new way to enjoy the content.
And of course, it's got all the twisted and gruesome visuals and sounds you'd expect from an Outlast game, this time by way of a perverse mockery of 1959 suburban culture. The whole vibe of the environment is fantastic.
Looking forward to all the new players about to join the general release tomorrow. Welcome reagents! Wear your brown pants.
Steam User 63
content gets quiet repetitive really fast. There are about 15 hours of unique content, and the rest is simply replays of the same levels but in more challenging conditions. I can see how this can get really boring quickly as a solo player, but in multiplayer, replaying the levels and perfecting your run is pretty fun. Your play style will change the more you know about the objectives, enemies, locations and map, so when you replay a level, you won't be getting 100% the same initial experience
Steam User 49
It's a great game to play with friends and fun meeting new people on it as well.
Just hope one day they add an extra filter for VC/NO VC when it comes to finding groups. I understand that sometimes people might not want to talk but it kinda takes a good chunk of the fun out of the game when you're the only one with a microphone. On the flip side I imagine if people who would rather not play with a microphone might find it annoying to hear all the yapping.
Easy problem to solve, all it takes is to segregate the two if the player chooses the option when on group find
Steam User 263
A naked man beat me then proceeded to say I was the problem and then camped the only objective left
10/10