Once you’ve chucked your life away, you’re then taken to a holding area where you can play another level either solo or with other players. It’s hard to miss all the hanged people, murdered dinner guests, and poor guy who is quickly turned into mince, though, almost in rapid-fire succession. You’ll be so taken with how the game looks that you might not notice the naked guy leaping at you. Red Barrels has absolutely taken it up a notch in the aesthetic department in the years since the second game, as The Outlast Trials has some of the best visuals ever committed to a horror game, even if the lip-sync doesn’t seem quite there yet. Utilising stealth, you’re tasked with creeping around a dilapidated mansion as a disembodied voice tells you to leave your previous life behind, the whole thing acting as the world’s least chill tutorial. You pick your hapless triallist, choose from a few perks and upgrades (which didn’t really feel all that notable in the confines of a Closed Beta), and then start running and screaming. The Outlast Trials feels like Red Barrels have tried their best to transpose the Outlast franchise’s most famous elements into a multiplayer environment, specifically night vision, shocking violence, and almost relentless antagonists who you have little hope of combatting. When a sinister Punch and Judy homage drills an apple into your hand, you’ll probably be left wishing you were Snow White instead. Set before the events of the first two games, The Outlast Trials puts a multiplayer spin on the very effective, very grisly formula, as you play a homeless person who “volunteers” for trials with The Murkoff Corporation, who have the kind of name that just sounds evil, like Disney. I’ve been playing The Outlast Trials, a game I’ve been looking forward to for quite a few years after being the leader of the Outlast 2 Defense Force, as part of its Closed Beta on Steam. It pretty much never lets up from that point and while the game itself is certainly fun, it doesn’t really give itself (or its scares) enough room to breathe. Before you’ve even pressed a button, it eviscerates some poor guy in front of you, then drills something into your face in first-person while the music sounds like a chainsaw being accosted by a gang of hoodlum bees. However, The Outlast Trials will differ from other games in the franchise due to the addition of cooperative play, which will allow players to help each other survive the game's events.The Outlast Trials wants you to know that it’s hardcore pretty much immediately - it’s not like those other multiplayer horror games. The characters' cameras define the series gameplay, as using their night-vision modes is a how players can avoid their deadly adversaries. Players are left unarmed and forced to flee or hide from attackers, creating an extremely tense atmosphere. Mimicking the popular found-footage style of many modern horror movies, both games put players in the shoes of investigative journalists as they become entangled in disturbing and deadly mysteries. The Outlast Trials was first announced back in December 2019, although the upcoming prequel has long remained a mystery.Ģ013's Outlast, and its 2017 sequel Outlast 2, are intense first-person survival horror games. As the third installment in Red Barrels' bone-chilling Outlast series, the upcoming release will allow multiple players to experience terror together. Gamescom 2021 has revealed a horrifying gameplay trailer for upcoming co-op-enabled survival game The Outlast Trials.
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