The asylum as portrayed in Outlast is plucked directly from the horror genre. 'When a place is so far removed from its real purpose, it loses meaning. To be contrary, I think I side with Adam when he said its kooky wakka wakka spooky spoo asylum is just too familiar: Our Outlast review from Ben Barrett was glowing, who said it 'is not an experiment in how games can be scary, it's an exemplification.'

This freebie is to celebrate the end of Humble's summer sale, which I understand has a great many games going cheap. Hit the Humble Store before 6pm on Saturday (10am Pacific) and you can nab both Outlast and its prequel expansion, Whistleblower, in DRM-free and Steam key forms. Help him to escape with life from this troubling adventure.One of the better 'peer through a camcorder viewfinder while hiding from spooky monsters' horror games which shambled out of the early tensies, Outlast is free for keepsies if you grab it in the next two days. Durin his escape, Upshure will come across different characters, some of which will help him and others that are out to get him. His objective will be to escape from the trap he's found himself in. but it's too late, he's already trapped.Īn asylum that houses dangerous experiments. He decides to take up an investigation and when he gets to the hospital he comes across the bodies of all the medical staff. This adventure places us in the shoes of Miles Upshur, a journalist who receives an anonymous email that warns him about i llegal experiments on patients in a pyschiatric hospital in Colorado carried out by a corporation. Disturbing experiments in a mental hospital

By putting together all their talent they came up with Outlast, a game that deepens inside psychological terror and is capable of giving you goosebumps. Developers that took part in the creation of games like Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed or Prince of Persia have got together to create their own company, Red Barrels Games.

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