For an investigative journalist, Miles Upshur isn’t very smart. As the protagonist of Outlast, the new game from independent developer Red Barrels, he breaks into a supposedly abandoned insane asylum called Mount Massive armed with only a camcorder and the survival instincts of a moth near a bug zapper. Naturally, this is a very bad idea.
Outlast is a first-person survival horror experience available now for PC, and for the PlayStation 4 sometime in 2014. It’s similar to Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It’s heavily influenced by found-footage films like The Blair Witch Project and [Rec], and its story, mostly told through scattered notes and documents, is based on Project MKUltra, a real-life covert government operation that conducted experiments in brainwashing, hypnosis, and behavior modification on human beings without their knowledge. It’s also the scariest game I’ve played in recent memory.

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