
Outlast is a strong Action/Indie that delivers where it counts.
89
Verdict
96%
Steam
77
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 133K reviews)
Steep difficulty curve may not appeal to casual players
Outlast is a 2013 first-person psychological survival horror video game developed and published by Canadian independent studio Red Barrels. It revolves around freelance investigative journalist Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate Mount Massive Asylum, a remote psychiatric hospital, located deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 6d ago
you will ♥♥♥♥ your pants. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
Used to speedrun 1&2 a fairly long time ago, never fully went through on pc again though. However I still highly recommend the games, if it's even possible that people haven't played or seen the game yet, xd
Bloody hell, it's been ages since I played this game on console and after a long time I decided to give it another crack, and as I expected it still manages to deliver that feeling of claustrophobic anxiety where you feel perennially hunted even when you're in the toilet. If you're a wuss and you like hiding under the bed so you don't get scolded by mum and end up grounded, this game's for you 'cause it's full of beds under which to hide, but instead of fleeing from mum you'll find yourself fleeing from psychos who want to torture you and you've got nothing to defend yourself with, except escaping and hiding. Today horror games have unreal graphics but very often they're dead inside. This instead still withstands the test of time 'cause it's based only on your vulnerability and on the tension. I would like very much to see a single-player Outlast 3 based on this type of story or that of Trials, with similar environments and maybe with the graphics of Trials, but also much longer as playtime, but I reckon we'll see it when the support for Trials finishes. I reckon this series is one of the best, if not the best as true horror genre.
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