Outlast 2013

Released: September 4, 2013
Genres: Adventure · Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · Linux · PC · Mac · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Developer: Red Barrels
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Digital: GOG $3.75-75% GMG Steam Epic Games PlayStation $3.74-75% Xbox Nintendo

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Is it still worth playing?

A journalist, Miles Upshur, follows a tip into Mount Massive Asylum and cannot fight anything in it, in this 2013 horror game for the PC, later on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There is no health bar and no weapon. You hide in lockers and under beds and watch pursuers stalk past or drag you out, or you run and vault obstacles, slipping past the Variants, the patients the asylum has made, with Chris Walker and Richard Trager the ones who come looking. The camcorder is your light: its night vision is the only way to see in the pitch black, and it runs on slowly draining batteries, so the dark is rationed as well as feared. Between chases you restart pumps and breakers to bring power back to elevators. Found footage films are its model, and it was its makers' first game. A horror game whose only tool is a way of seeing still runs out of batteries today.