Outlast Review · 1:09pm Oct 24th, 2017

There's always a certain kind of people that we find insane, and we often find it in ourselves that we think those people belong in a mental institution. But what if some of those nutballs were actually strong... powerful... had the will to break from their captors and run rampant through the institution creating untold amount of havoc and destruction?

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That'd be awesome! And that's what we got ladies and gentlemen,

So in the game of Outlast, you play as investigative reporter Miles Upshur, who you never hear talk out loud except for the occasional grunt, scream of terror and pain, and throw up. But you are asked to investigate Mount Massive Asylum, a mental institution. But as you enter into the facility, you quickly soon realize that you should have just made the sensible option to walk away...

I'll admit, I didn't think about playing this game cause it didn't stand out. But then I saw a bit of Markiplier's gameplay on it, and it enticed me to actually buy the game for myself. But admittedly, I have not finished the game. I'm stuck because I'm a freakin coward! Chris Walker's gonna kill me!

But you know what, from the bits I do know, and from what I have made it through, this is actually a really good game. I'm not gonna lie, its a really good game. I can barely find any flaws with it. In fact, lets break it down.

The atmosphere is just beautiful. This dark and creepy feeling that you get when you walk on through the mental institution fits in perfectly. It seems alright at first when you walk up, but then once you get inside, you instantly get the feeling that something is wrong.

The suspense. There are quite a good amount of suspenseful moments all throughout this game and it works really well. When you start out walking through the asylum, you are only given a few vague hints and ideas as to what could have happened around here, and it works perfectly. And as you go further and further into the game and are understanding more about what's happened, it still keeps the suspense up.

As for scares, well there are a few occasional jump-scares here and there, but for the most part, it can get pretty scary. Like when you're hiding in a locker away from the mental patients praying to God that none of them will find you hidden away. That is freakin terrifying.

The characters themselves are really cool. We're given a few names of the mental patients but they're really interesting too and it makes you wonder what their sane selves were back then. We've got memorable ones like Chris Walker, Dr Trager, The Naked Twins (I don't know their names, but that's all I remember them by) and even Father Martin who 'tries' to help you escape your prison. ... Actually I don't even know if he tries to help you, he doesn't seem helpful a whole lot.

The graphics and the animation are BEAUTIFUL. It flows perfectly together and the amount of detail in the textures along with the extremely detailed gore. And I mean DETAILED, there is a lot of detail in the blood and guts. In fact, if you even walk in puddles of blood, you can create foodprints into the ground in blood. That's pretty detailed.

Even the challenges you have to go through are very thrillign and fun. There are challenges to try and make it past crazy people to get power back online, there's challenges to try and hide from psychos who chop your fingers off, there's a lot of them. And they work really well.

I know this isn't much of me to say, but I do recommend this game if you can handle strong gore like this. Its a fun thrilling kind of game, with great suspense, graphics, challenges, a strong story, adn some really great tension in the atmosphere. I highly recommend this one for you horror fans, and its a worthwhile gameplay.

I give this game a 9 out of 10.

I hope you enjoyed the review, and hopefully soon I will come with a new movie review for you guys. Thank you, and see you next time!

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