The Outlast Trials has come a long way (opens in new tab), a four-player horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels. 2019’s hit Outlast was announced as his co-op horror game and had no plans for a 2022 release, but PC Gamer News wrote his writer Joshua Wolens that it was “ethically unsound.” It turns out that I have a friend who wants to be a good target.science experiment (opens in new tab) For progress and profit”—his words, not mine—at least we didn’t walk away empty-handed, right?
Anyway, following a closed beta test that attracted nearly 1 million sign-ups in October 2022, Red Barrels today announced that The Outlast Trials will enter Early Access on May 18th.
“The closed beta was just an indication of what was going to happen with the Outlast trial,” said Philippe Morin, co-founder of Red Barrels. , used to improve the experience. ”
Outlast Trials is set in the same world as the previous game, but instead of playing a journalist investigating creepy mental hospitals and cult facilities, you’re kidnapped by the Markoff Corporation to be used as human guinea pigs during the Cold War. . Brainwashing and mind control experiments. The biggest twist is that you can work in groups of up to 4 or on up to 4 trials. The Steam page is vague on how it works. Is it the old saying “outrun the bear” or is it somehow simplified by a partner in dire straits. The process of survival and escape?—or what are these experiments, but clearly not good.
“If you survive long enough and complete your treatment, Markoff will be happy to let you go…but will you be the same?” “In a world of mistrust, fear and violence, your morals will be tested, your endurance tested and your sanity shattered. All in the name of progress, science and profit.
“In pure Outlast fashion, core gameplay involves avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to escape. It gives you tools that you can use to slow things down, etc. But you have to earn those tools and work hard to improve them.”
What interests me most is how The Outlast Trials compares to other recent horror games, especially Soma. (opens in new tab) and Amnesia: Rebirth (opens in new tab)Both had jump scares and something chasing me, but they both took a more intelligent approach to the genre and were better than the original Outlast game. Will The Outlast Trials show a similar type of evolution, or will it stick to a more traditional “bad in the dark” formula, or take a more action-oriented approach? Perhaps something similar to Resident Evil Resistance?
Details will be revealed in the coming months. Outlast Trial is vapor (opens in new tab) and the Epic Games Store (opens in new tab)in the meantime you can keep up with what’s going on with the official Outlast Discord (opens in new tab).
