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Outlast is a first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels
and the first instalment in the Outlast series. It was released on September 4, 2013, for
Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 on February 4, 2014, and for Xbox One on June 18
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2014. Outlast: Whistleblower, a direct prequel and finale to the game, was released as
downloadable content on May 6
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, 2014 for PS4 and PC, and on June 19
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, 2014 for Xbox
One. Following the game’s overall success, the developers started working on its sequel,
Outlast 2 which was released on April 25, 2017.
Outlast was met with mostly positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, the PC version holds
an 80/100, and the PS4 version of the game holds a 78/100, with praise stemming primarily
from its horror elements and gameplay while being criticized for its environments and
character modelling. It has received a number of accolades and awards from E3 2013,
including the “Most Likely to Make you Faint” honour, and one of the “Best of E3”.
2. Plot
Miles Upshur, a freelance journalist, receives a tip-off from an anonymous source about
Mount Massive Asylum, a psychiatric hospital owned and operated by the Murkoff
Corporation. Upon gaining entry to the asylum, he finds the bodies of the asylum’s staff
strewn about the hallways, and the now escaped inmates, known as the Variants, roaming
the grounds. Progressing through the upper dormitories, he encounters an impaled tactical
officer, who in his dying moments tells the journalist to get out of the asylum while he still
can. Exiting the dormitories, Upshur is attacked by a powerful inmate named Chris Walker,
who throws him through a window, and down to the atrium. Upon regaining consciousness,
he encounters “Father” Martin, an inmate who believes he is a priest. Martin says Upshur
was sent by God to be a witness to his cult and has to stay in the asylum, and then departs
as Upshur passes out again.
Awakening, Upshur starts his attempt to find a way out of the building, while avoiding attacks
from Walker and the other inmates. However, as he attempts to unlock the main doors from
security control, he is ambushed and sedated by Martin, who again states that he must
remain at the asylum and witness the events there. Martin shows him footage of the
asylum’s security forces being slaughtered by a mysterious, seemingly supernatural entity
known as the Walrider before transporting a now-unconscious Upshur to the asylum’s
holding cells.

Upshur is forced to work his way upwards through the sewers after encountering a pair of
inmates, the Twins, who express a desire to kill and eat him. However, the duo abstain from
attacking for the moment, as Martin has asked them not to harm the journalist. Upshur
makes his way through the sewers while avoiding attacks from hostile inmates, finally
reaching the asylum's showers.
While attempting to escape through the showers, however, he is attacked yet again by
Walker and escapes through the vents. Progressing further through the building, Upshur is
soon chased into a corner by several inmates, but escapes through a dumbwaiter, only to be
captured by one of the Asylum’s psychotic inmates fashioning himself as a doctor, Richard
Trager, who collects body parts from other patients. Trager imprisons Upshur, strapping him
to a wheelchair, and slices off two of his fingers using a large pair of shears. Upshur
manages to escape and a chase ensues, followed by a struggle when Trager breaks into the
moving elevator, but Upshur pushes him out, causing Trager to become stuck between the
elevator’s gates and ultimately crushed between floors.
Encountering Martin again, Upshur exits onto the asylum grounds, but he is chased back
inside by the Walrider, revealed to be a ghost-like being that Upshur can only see with the
naked eye and while using his camera’s night vision. He is forced to circumnavigate the
ruined stairway to access different building floors by following a trail of blood Martin left for
him to follow. Upshur finally locates Martin in the asylum's chapel to witness the latter's
death, and self-immolation on a crucifix, before taking the now-repaired primary elevator
down. Martin tricks Upshur, however, and instead of taking him to the exit, the elevator takes
him to an underground military facility beneath the asylum. While searching for an entry,
Upshur is chased by the Walrider and finds Walker on the other side of a door he runs
through, which incapacitates him. However, before Walker can kill the journalist, the Walrider
attacks and brutally kills the inmate before leaving. Upshur proceeds into the facility and
meets Dr Wernicke (originally believed to be dead), the scientist in charge of the entire
experiment known as “Project Walrider.”
Wernicke explains that the Walrider is the result of nanotechnology experiments conducted
on an inmate called Billy Hope and that the Walrider is controlled by Hope.