It's not the enemies (well, it kind of is the enemies), and it's not the environments - at least not all the time. In Outlast, the horror-game-mold-breaking 2013 original, the most frightening part of the experience is the camera. That grainy little viewfinder, especially when you activate the battery-sucking nightvision, makes everything feel, somehow, closer, more tactile, and more real. You're a reporter. Your job is to record. And so you feel obligated to watch and capture every single atrocity and terror contained in Mount Massive Asylum. It's a subtle but breakthrough tweak in the horror game formula. Now, 11 years later, Outlast has fully broken containment. Mixing Dead by Daylight's multiplayer focus with the stealth and tension of Alien Isolation or Amnesia, one of 2024's most hotly anticipated new horrors is finally here in full.
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