Red Barrels’ original, terrifying firstperson horror Outlast is a firm PS Plus favourite that locked you in an abandoned asylum. Your only reliable source of light was your camera’s night vision — an unbearably effective way of delivering as much tension as possible. That green haze illuminating the engulfing darkness returns for the sequel, but this time, you’re out in the wilderness and without a clue of what is rabidly chasing you…

You now step into the shoes of Blake Langermann, a journalist working with his wife Lynn to investigate the murder of a pregnant woman. Separated at the start, we’re stranded in the Arizona desert, groggily searching for Blake’s better half. Approaching a ramshackle farm, unease swiftly sets in when a door starts banging loudly. That rapidly becomes pulserising fear when we notice a corpse slumped over a table, right next to a handy battery for our digital camcorder. Inching ever closer, we expect it to jump up, grab us, do anything. But the body remains motionless as we pocket the battery. Red Barrels hasn’t lost its touch for ratcheting up the anxiety levels, despite the switch in environment.

Devil’s In The Detail

What’s radically different is that Outlast 2 is openly surreal. There are now constant, eerie illusions suggesting we’re wandering through the home of a Satanic cult and — in one unexplainable scene — a giant tentacle wraps itself around Blake and yanks him down a well. From here, a noticeable change of pace kicks in and we wake up in — of all places — an empty high school. There’s much more of a psychological bent than in its 2013 predecessor: arms dangle out of inky portals on the ceilings and bright lights beckon us into a locker. We tentatively step in. Bad idea.

We’re dragged out of the high school and back onto the cult’s home turf by someone who wants us dead. We dash into a cornfield to hide since — like in the original — avoiding the enemy is our only hope of survival. In the absence of corridors to guide us we decide to sprint in a random direction, and end up frantically stumbling out of the farm and into something that’s best left unspoilt.

Marrying the original’s creeping dread to the sort of weird, mindmelting scares seen in P.T. works better than we could have ever dreaded. Outlast 2 is the nightmare your nightmares are frightened of.

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