

There’s another where you have to punish a group of wicked animatronic children by shoving them into a meat grinder, working around various obstacles as you slowly push the cart of misbehaving dolls toward their demise. At least when South Park does it it’s usually funny.Įach of the three maps in the early access version has its own bizarre and twisted objectives that must be completed before your untimely death, like one where you’re forced to turn an impure orphanage into a malevolent religious establishment by replacing all the secular materials with unholy profanity.

I get that shock and gratuitous violence is sorta the whole point, but it often feels like they’re trying so hard to be gross and extreme or make some kind of unsubtle statement that I just shook my head at the tactless, edgelordian overkill. One level features a maniacal police officer who enjoys tasering his own genitals and rattles off nonsense like “I don’t recognize this country anymore,” while in another you’re repeatedly shown a bunch of penises for seemingly no reason at all, and then forced to recreate a crucifixion for an audience of school children. They are not here to save lives or help people, they are here to make sure it doesn’t cost the company any more than it has to.That said, even when treated with the unseriousness and gore-filled levity that I think The Outlast Trials is going for, the over-the-top violence, deeply unsexy lechery, and extremely on-the-nose subject matter can be a bit much sometimes. In the event of mistake or oversight, the MURKOFF INSURANCE MITIGATION DEPARTMENT comes in to minimize economic fallout. Partnering with the greatest minds of tomorrow, Murkoff expands the reach of every branch of scientific inquiry, including gene therapy, behavioral psychology, information technology, and medicine. The trans-national MURKOFF CORPORATION tirelessly pushes the frontier of scientific research and development. With two issues out of five released to date, The Murkoff Account bridges the gap between the originalOutlast and Outlast 2.

More features and environments will be unveiled in the coming months, but in the meantime, be sure to check out theOutlast comic book series, The Murkoff Account. “The Outlast 2 demo provides a sneak peek at what Red Barrels have been working on for the last few years. Check out the trailer of Outlast 2, featuring a cinematic video with a bit of the games’ story:
