Outlast

Hands down the scariest game I've ever played. I mostly played it at night, in the dark, with a headset at medium volume. The sound design is amazing. The acting is very good. The engine holds up great after all these years despite the world being pretty static and some character models feeling repetitive. The gameplay too may look repetitive but the level design, story, and overall pacing more than make up for it. It's simple, efficient, and very bad for my heart. The Whistleblower extension is even scarier, and I haven't even finished it yet. I think until now I had never wished I'd reach a game's end faster just because it makes me **** my pants. A masterpiece in horror.

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loved it, even the challenges you make are fun

I watched a let's play of this when I was 13 or 14. It scarred me deeply. I blame this game for me being into horror at all. At 26 this game is just as bone chilling as it was back then, but what surprised me the most was how much meat there is on the bone here story wise. There are actual themes happening here, and that might surprise you if you thought (like I did for a long time) that this game is all shock and no value. Not so, and if you're willing to brave the horrors of Mount Massive I think there is a lot to love here in the imagery and narrative. That goes doubly so for the DLC, and the game is frankly incomplete without it. The real issue for anyone experienced with run and hide horror games is you'll figure out the tricks in the level design very quickly. The exit is almost always right behind where the stalker enemy spawned in. To progress you must press two buttons and then a third slightly bigger button. This isn't great, but the trade off is that all of the levels are claustrophobic and oppressive. Personally I could have lived with slightly bigger more complex levels, but that might just be asking to take the Outlast out of Outlast. On the whole I recommend Outlast…

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