Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Dead Drop Studios LLC · 2018 · Survival Horror, Online Co-Op, Multiplayer, Horror, Zombies
PC
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About Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Enter an unforgiving survival horror experience as you fight for your life against oppressive odds. The horrors of Arzt Memorial Hospital were just the beginning of the outbreak. As the infection spread across the city, local law enforcement fell quickly. You now find yourself trapped in a hellscape with only a few remaining survivors. Scavenge the environment for supplies, face off against the undead and do anything it takes to survive. You have only one life. Make it count!
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Local Co-op: Play the entire game offline in splitscreen co-op!
Cross Platform: Play co-op with Windows and Linux together!
Beauty: Experience the nightmare in beautiful high definition 3D.
Film: Fixed and panning camera angles bring the cinematic feel.
Campaign Mode: Attempt to escape the quarantine zone.
Onslaught Mode: Survive endless waves of the undead.
Experiments Mode: Bonus game modes and challenges.
Classic: Hardcore survival horror in an unforgiving apocalypse.
Cast: Choose from unique characters with their own attributes.
Progression: Earn XP, level up and customize each character.
Friends: 4-player online co-op multiplayer featuring voice chat.
Alone: Play single-player offline in all game modes.
Inventory: Choose wisely, your inventory is dangerously limited.
Destruction: Numerous firearms, explosives and melee weapons.
Replay: Semi-random enemy and item layouts.
Controller: Customizable gamepad, mouse and keyboard controls.
Worldwide: Cloud-based multiplayer with region selector means no NAT issues.
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Local Co-op: Play the entire game offline in splitscreen co-op!
Cross Platform: Play co-op with Windows and Linux together!
Beauty: Experience the nightmare in beautiful high definition 3D.
Film: Fixed and panning camera angles bring the cinematic feel.
Campaign Mode: Attempt to escape the quarantine zone.
Onslaught Mode: Survive endless waves of the undead.
Experiments Mode: Bonus game modes and challenges.
Classic: Hardcore survival horror in an unforgiving apocalypse.
Cast: Choose from unique characters with their own attributes.
Progression: Earn XP, level up and customize each character.
Friends: 4-player online co-op multiplayer featuring voice chat.
Alone: Play single-player offline in all game modes.
Inventory: Choose wisely, your inventory is dangerously limited.
Destruction: Numerous firearms, explosives and melee weapons.
Replay: Semi-random enemy and item layouts.
Controller: Customizable gamepad, mouse and keyboard controls.
Worldwide: Cloud-based multiplayer with region selector means no NAT issues.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Outbreak: The New Nightmare is a deliberately old-school survival horror experience that positions itself as a tribute to the genre’s late-1990s roots. From its fixed camera angles to its restrictive inventory system, the game makes it clear that it is less interested in modern conveniences and more focused on recreating the tension, vulnerability, and methodical pacing that defined early survival horror. Rather than reinventing the formula, it commits to scarcity, isolation, and pressure, asking players to survive not through firepower but through careful decision-making. The setting places players in a city already lost to infection, where emergency services have collapsed and the remaining survivors are trapped in hostile, claustrophobic locations. Environments such as hospitals, offices, and urban interiors are designed to feel oppressive, emphasizing narrow corridors, poor visibility, and constant threat. Exploration is slow and cautious, driven by the need to search for keys, supplies, and clues while avoiding unnecessary confrontations. The atmosphere relies heavily on limitation—limited visibility, limited movement freedom, and limited resources—to create unease rather tha…2 found this helpful
Nightmare chews my brain like popcorn, I am saveless zombie in love. Let it lag, I enjoy being dumb dinner for bugs.1 found this helpful
Fundamentals are there but requires polish. Level designs for the campaign is sufficient enough but hampered by many it's camera angles - which was the main difficulty of the game, not the zombies or special infected. 5/10 game. Solid 2 hours of fun with friends to mess around with it. That is the only reason why I recommend it - with friends only.1 found this helpful
All the "Outbreak" games suck. This one is no exception; I've had more fun going to the bathroom than playing this.
I can appreciate what they were trying to go for here. You can feel the parts of the game that are supposed to be RE:Outbreak. But uh... Everything about the game is kinda awful. It all feels janky and horrible, and the animations and lighting are just terrible. Even the AI's movement is just so danm janky.
This is the most stupid controller navigation system I have ever experienced. Its only excuse is that it is an old game.
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