Outlast 2 is definitely the scariest game released this year, mainly due to the fact you could actually become stronger in Resident Evil 7 and fight back against the monsters, whereas in Outlast 2 you simply have to run away and hide. … One of the ways Outlast succeeded in doing this when it was released (in 2013 for PCs, 2014 for the PlayStation and Xbox and in 2018 for the Nintendo Switch) was to base its setting’s backstory on a real-life event. The stealth-horror game Outlast is designed to scare you witless. Considering the fact that both games are MUST PLAYS, you might as well play them in order.

In the same way Should I play whistleblower before Outlast? Very minor spoiler: iirc the way Whistleblower is done is that it’s set before Outlast, explaining how things got to be so bad, then there’s a timeskip to the end of Outlast so they both end at more or less the same time. The original is set in a seemingly abandoned asylum while the latest playable sequel takes place in an obscure, dilapidated town.

… The two previous Outlast titles seem to have nothing to do with each other. Though details are limited, there are creepy connections that tie Outlast 1 and Outlast 2 together. Only difference, for the most part, was that Outlast 1 was more confined in small locations. But in both, I loved the supernatural science. I found Outlast 2 both more horrifying and terrifying than the first game. It is about test subjects in a mysterious Cold War experiment that is set in the same universe of the previous games.

… The Outlast Trials was teased in October 2019 and is not a direct sequel to Outlast 2. Outlast 3 was announced in December 2017, though no time frame or target platforms were confirmed.

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