It makes sense that in a more cooperative style game, there’s going to be much less personal focus on you and your character. It can feel a bit piecemeal as a result, but picking apart the wider lore and story will be something I can foresee a lot of people having fun with. Aside from an interesting opening salvo, the rest of the story is pieced together via lore documents you can find in trials. Your actions during trials are graded on performance and you must earn your way to freedom by completing one harrowing task after another. Scientists are constantly watching your every move.

From the hub world being an asylum complete with your own individual cell, to the viewing posts and glass observation rooms – you’ll regularly see on display throughout your trials, the game perfectly captures an eerie, uncomfortable aura. We take the role of a random person who has enlisted into a program, one which promises we “deserve to be here” to have us be “reborn” through the trials of… crazed danger and obedience.Įverything that you encounter takes place in a facility that can best be described as One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest had horrendous relations with Saw and out popped this monstrosity. In-keeping with previous entries in the series, The Outlast Trials does a fantastic job at setting up the context for this descent into violent masochism.

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