RELATED: 15 Short (But Scary) Horror Games Worth Playing The author of this letter is a Murkoff employee apparently taking notes about the nearby radio towers and how they are able to influence the "subjects at the site." The "Old Traveler" is the title of a hidden letter located in a sleeping bag found in The Lake area by the waterside's shore. Quite literally, you can find a hidden document that essentially explains everything about the seemingly disjointed link between Outlast 1 and 2. What are they doing in Blake's flashbacks?Ģ Hidden Document That Explains Everything The company used Mount Massive Asylum to conduct illegal human experiments that very much classify as crimes against humanity. Secondly, the Murkoff corporation and its employees serve as the primary veiled antagonists of the first Outlast game. You can catch a quick glimpse of the Murkoff corporation's logo during these recordings. One might very well wonder why this seemingly pointless easter egg is creepy.įirst of all, the fact that the logo is a literal guillotine (which points out the company's evil practices) is already enough to give your spine chills. RELATED: 10 Horror Games That Will Make You Scared Of Schools To make things even worse, you can tape corrupted recordings while in the high school that hide a seriously disturbing message (just like the rest of the game). Something about seeing a familiar, yet deserted place, like an empty school, feels uncomfortably uncanny. The levels that take place here are, undoubtedly, the ones that require nerves of steel to get through. The creepiest encounters in Outlast 2 take place during Blake's flashbacks that bring him back to his former high school, St. Nevertheless, this phrase could be a manifestation of the hidden link between Mount Massive and Temple Gate. It's possible the developers used this bit of dialogue as filler. Admittedly, while Blake walks through Temple Gate (the secluded Arizona village in Outlast 2), plenty of strange ravings can be heard. These same exact words are also spoken by one of the patients at Mount Massive Asylum shortly after entering the facility in the original Outlast. If you walk to him, you can hear him scream: "Get them out! Please! The Doctor is dead! Rip them clean! You have to help me!"
A little exploration rewards you with a callback to the first Outlast - a strange line of dialogue spoken by a man with a mustache kneeling by a campfire. The flash leaves the latter group in a trance, allowing you to freely walk around and listen to their delusional rantings. Despite that, there are a couple of covert links that tie in the games within the same canonical universe.Īt one point in the game, a (recurring) blinding flash of light stuns you and Father Knot's fanatic cult members. The characters between these games are also completely different with no familiar faces can be found in either title. Each is its own little nightmare to experience with a camcorder. 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. RELATED: 10 Best Horror Games Where You Are Defenseless
In addition, we still haven't heard nor seen anything new from Red Barrels.ĭespite that, it's also possible the studio is just waiting for the Halloween period - just about the best time to release a terrific horror game. The proper release date is still to be announced, but predicting a pushback to next year wouldn't be completely out of this world considering most games in production during 2020 were pushed back. The Outlast Trials is set to release sometime in late 2021.