Outlast is a first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels. The game revolves around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate a remote psychiatric hospital named Mount Massive Asylum, located deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado.
Gameplay
In Outlast, the player assumes the role of investigative journalist Miles Upshur. The game is played from a first-person perspective. The player can walk, run, crouch, jump, climb ladders and vault over objects. Unlike most games, however, the player does not have a visible health bar on the screen and is unable to attack enemies. The player must instead rely on stealth tactics such as hiding in lockers, sneaking past enemies, staying in the shadows and hiding behind or under things in order to survive. If the player dies, the game will reset to the most recent checkpoint.
Most of the hospital is unlit, and the only way for the player to see while in the dark is through the lens of a camcorder equipped with night vision. Using the night vision mode will slowly consume batteries, forcing the player to scavenge for additional batteries found throughout the asylum. If the player records specific events with their camcorder, Miles will write a note about it, providing further insight into his thoughts. Documents can be collected, which offer backstory and other expository information about the facility, including pages taken from the diaries of patients and reports from the hospital staff.
Story
You will play Miles Upshur, an elite reporter. who likes to make news about the risk of death, the kind that no journalist dared to do. He received an email from a mysterious man. It tells the story of Murkoff’s illicit business in a historic mental institution. Wanting him to help uncover the inhuman acts within this terrifying place, Miles immediately came to 'Mount Massive Asylum' and the story of horror has begun.
Outlast is a true survival horror experience which aims to show that the most terrifying monsters of all come from the human mind.
