Footsteps and moving gravel on the ridges above you. There are rustlings in the bushes on the paths. There are jump-scares galore, and the atmosphere is oppressive, and with sound design as good as it is, you never feel alone. You should be able to just turn around and leave. Because you feel as though there should be an escape. Also, being outside does nothing to hinder the horror of the game. The outside environment is sparsely lit, but you’ll need to save your batteries for when you get to inside segments.
It plays very similarly to its predecessor, but has less focus, I felt, on using the night vision.
We’ll avoid spoilers, simply because it’d be a shame to foil it. But what you find is… something else entirely. With your wife missing, you head towards a town nearby, in hopes of finding her. The two are riding in a chopper as the game opens, but it goes haywire and crashes. It is then revealed that the woman took her life when admitted to hospital, amid mindless babbling. You are a reporter, much like in the first game, with your wife, reporting on a woman who was eight months pregnant and found in the middle of the desert. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, after about four hours of biting my nails and contemplating whether it was worth buying new underwear, I downloaded the Outlast 2 demo, which is now free on Steam.Ĭompletely separate from the first game, we go deep into Arizona, into the canyons of the desert, late at night.
