It can get a bit intense because instinct tells you to use night vision whenever possible to make sure you can see the crazed villagers hunting you down, but if you know you’re on your last battery, and considering there is zero combat, sometimes moving through an area with severely limited light is the best option. Using night vision drains the camera’s battery, but new ones are scattered all around. ![]() Blake carries a camcorder with night vision capabilities that allow him to navigate the many near and completely pitch dark areas throughout the game. Outlast 2 has similar gameplay to the original Outlast in that it’s a First Person Shooter minus the shooting. It offers a break from the Arizona farm and adds a different plot element, but otherwise plays the same as the rest of the game.ĭark figures at the end of hallways: Creepy 100% of the time Throughout the game, Blake has several playable flashbacks that focus on the death of a childhood friend at their school. It’s a wacky story, but Blake has to find his wife, so he sets off into the nearby towns, farms, and mine to find her. They claim that Lynn is pregnant, much to her and Blake’s surprise, and before much else can be explained, she is taken by a rival cult (as if one cult wasn’t enough) who think it’s their mission to bring upon the end of days more quickly by delivering said Anti-Christ. It’s soon discovered that all the local children have been sacrificed and that the cult leader impregnates the women and then kills them, stating they carry what could be the Anti-Christ. ![]() The locals are part of a strange cult who believes the world is ending soon. As Blake, you head toward the local town to find Lynn, and again, as expected, things don’t go well. The game begins in a helicopter and as you may have guessed, it promptly crashes, separating Blake and Lynn. Here, we follow journalists Blake Langermann and his wife, Lynn as they investigate the murder of a pregnant woman in rural Arizona. Outlast 2 is not considered a direct sequel as the characters are completely different, but parts of the story definitely tie into the original. It’s not often that a horror game leaves the player with little to no means of self defense, but these guys are all about it, and it definitely adds to the intensity and a new element to the Survival Horror genre. ![]() There seem to be only so many ways a game can try to scare you these days, but developer Red Barrels gave us something newer when they released Outlast in 2014.
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