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The Outlast Trials (Steam)
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The Outlast Trials is a first-person psychological survival horror game developed and published by Red Barrels, set during the Cold War as a prequel to the original Outlast series. Play solo or with up to three friends as unwilling test subjects of the Murkoff Corporation, navigating brutal trials designed to shatter your sanity in the name of science and corporate profit.
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Red Barrels
Release Date
Mar 4th, 2024
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Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed. All in the name of progress, science, and profit.SURVIVE: SOLO OR COOP
You’re all prisoners of Murkoff trapped inside their facility. You can choose to complete the trials by yourself or you can tackle them in a team of 2, 3, or 4 players.
Coop is never forced when it comes to mandatory objectives but working together can be highly beneficial.
Whatever the number of players in your party, it’s about surviving and getting out.
Ultimately, your goal is to complete Murkoff's therapy and earn the right to be released back into society. In order to do so, you must complete the Trials and the MK-Challenges.
Trials are immersive story driven therapies that take a certain time to complete. Mk-Challenges are shorter therapies occurring in modified or redesigned section of an existing map.HIDE OR FLIGHT
In pure Outlast fashion, the core gameplay involves avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to run away. Murkoff will provide tools you can use to increase your stealth capabilities, create opportunities to flee, slow down enemies, and more. However, you will have to earn those tools and work hard to improve them.
The tools will allow you to
- Stun enemies
- Blind them
- See through walls
- Heal yourself and people around you.
Murkoff will ask you to perform disturbing tasks in each trials or mk-challenges. Only after completing those, will you be allowed to exit the Trials or the MK-Challenges.CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
Customize and create your own trial patient.
Your cell is your home while you complete the therapy, you can decorate it however you wish.
Choose your tools, upgrades, and perks to fit your playstyle.
Meet the Denizens of Murkoff’s Sinyala Facility in The Outlast Trials. Each one of them will try and help you get through the Trials in one piece! Think you’ll make it?
INVESTIGATE
You’ve been abducted by the Murkoff Corporation to undergo unethical experiments that will modify your psyche and behavior throughout the Trials.
Collect documents and items that will help prove Murkoff’s malpractice against its patients.
The Process:
- Break the Self: Murkoff aims to break down the test subject’s fundamental beliefs. Aspects of self-identity are systematically attacked. Like boot camp or indoctrination, the goal is to force a person to purge themselves of anything held sacred or taboo, the things that limit their behavior. The constant assault on identity, guilt and self-betrayal eventually leads to them breaking down.
- Build the Self: It’s a bad cop, good cop principle. The rejection of the old ideology leaves a vacuum into which the new ideology can be introduced. As the antithesis of the old ideology, it forms a perfect attraction point as the person flees the old in search of a contrasting replacement. This progress is accelerated as the new ideology is portrayed as harmonious and ideally suited to the person's needs. Collegiality and calm replaces pain and punishment. Just at the point when the person is fearing annihilation of the self, they are offered a small kindness, a brief respite from the assault on their identity.
- Salvation: Faced with the stark contrast of the pain of the past with the rosy glow of the future that the new ideology presents, the person sheds any the final allegiance to the old ideology, confessing any remaining deep secrets, and takes on the full mantle of the new ideology. This often feels, and has been described by many, as a form of rebirth. It may be accompanied by rites of passage as the person is accepted and cemented into the new order. The rituals will typically include strong statements made by the person about accepting the new ideology fully and completely, swearing allegiance to its leaders. Saluting flags, kissing other artefacts and other symbolic acts, all solemnly performed, all anchor them firmly in the new ground.
Content and Photosensitivity Warning:The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that could cause a small percentage of people to experience seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images.
This game also contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content, and strong language. Please enjoy.
You’re all prisoners of Murkoff trapped inside their facility. You can choose to complete the trials by yourself or you can tackle them in a team of 2, 3, or 4 players.
Coop is never forced when it comes to mandatory objectives but working together can be highly beneficial.
Whatever the number of players in your party, it’s about surviving and getting out.
Ultimately, your goal is to complete Murkoff's therapy and earn the right to be released back into society. In order to do so, you must complete the Trials and the MK-Challenges.
Trials are immersive story driven therapies that take a certain time to complete. Mk-Challenges are shorter therapies occurring in modified or redesigned section of an existing map.
HIDE OR FLIGHT
In pure Outlast fashion, the core gameplay involves avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to run away. Murkoff will provide tools you can use to increase your stealth capabilities, create opportunities to flee, slow down enemies, and more. However, you will have to earn those tools and work hard to improve them.
The tools will allow you to
- Stun enemies
- Blind them
- See through walls
- Heal yourself and people around you.
Murkoff will ask you to perform disturbing tasks in each trials or mk-challenges. Only after completing those, will you be allowed to exit the Trials or the MK-Challenges.CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
Customize and create your own trial patient.
Your cell is your home while you complete the therapy, you can decorate it however you wish.
Choose your tools, upgrades, and perks to fit your playstyle.
Meet the Denizens of Murkoff’s Sinyala Facility in The Outlast Trials. Each one of them will try and help you get through the Trials in one piece! Think you’ll make it?
INVESTIGATE
You’ve been abducted by the Murkoff Corporation to undergo unethical experiments that will modify your psyche and behavior throughout the Trials.
Collect documents and items that will help prove Murkoff’s malpractice against its patients.
The Process:
- Break the Self: Murkoff aims to break down the test subject’s fundamental beliefs. Aspects of self-identity are systematically attacked. Like boot camp or indoctrination, the goal is to force a person to purge themselves of anything held sacred or taboo, the things that limit their behavior. The constant assault on identity, guilt and self-betrayal eventually leads to them breaking down.
- Build the Self: It’s a bad cop, good cop principle. The rejection of the old ideology leaves a vacuum into which the new ideology can be introduced. As the antithesis of the old ideology, it forms a perfect attraction point as the person flees the old in search of a contrasting replacement. This progress is accelerated as the new ideology is portrayed as harmonious and ideally suited to the person's needs. Collegiality and calm replaces pain and punishment. Just at the point when the person is fearing annihilation of the self, they are offered a small kindness, a brief respite from the assault on their identity.
- Salvation: Faced with the stark contrast of the pain of the past with the rosy glow of the future that the new ideology presents, the person sheds any the final allegiance to the old ideology, confessing any remaining deep secrets, and takes on the full mantle of the new ideology. This often feels, and has been described by many, as a form of rebirth. It may be accompanied by rites of passage as the person is accepted and cemented into the new order. The rituals will typically include strong statements made by the person about accepting the new ideology fully and completely, swearing allegiance to its leaders. Saluting flags, kissing other artefacts and other symbolic acts, all solemnly performed, all anchor them firmly in the new ground.
Content and Photosensitivity Warning:The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that could cause a small percentage of people to experience seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images.
This game also contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content, and strong language. Please enjoy.
Customize and create your own trial patient.
Your cell is your home while you complete the therapy, you can decorate it however you wish.
Choose your tools, upgrades, and perks to fit your playstyle.
Meet the Denizens of Murkoff’s Sinyala Facility in The Outlast Trials. Each one of them will try and help you get through the Trials in one piece! Think you’ll make it?
INVESTIGATE
You’ve been abducted by the Murkoff Corporation to undergo unethical experiments that will modify your psyche and behavior throughout the Trials.
Collect documents and items that will help prove Murkoff’s malpractice against its patients.
The Process:
- Break the Self: Murkoff aims to break down the test subject’s fundamental beliefs. Aspects of self-identity are systematically attacked. Like boot camp or indoctrination, the goal is to force a person to purge themselves of anything held sacred or taboo, the things that limit their behavior. The constant assault on identity, guilt and self-betrayal eventually leads to them breaking down.
- Build the Self: It’s a bad cop, good cop principle. The rejection of the old ideology leaves a vacuum into which the new ideology can be introduced. As the antithesis of the old ideology, it forms a perfect attraction point as the person flees the old in search of a contrasting replacement. This progress is accelerated as the new ideology is portrayed as harmonious and ideally suited to the person's needs. Collegiality and calm replaces pain and punishment. Just at the point when the person is fearing annihilation of the self, they are offered a small kindness, a brief respite from the assault on their identity.
- Salvation: Faced with the stark contrast of the pain of the past with the rosy glow of the future that the new ideology presents, the person sheds any the final allegiance to the old ideology, confessing any remaining deep secrets, and takes on the full mantle of the new ideology. This often feels, and has been described by many, as a form of rebirth. It may be accompanied by rites of passage as the person is accepted and cemented into the new order. The rituals will typically include strong statements made by the person about accepting the new ideology fully and completely, swearing allegiance to its leaders. Saluting flags, kissing other artefacts and other symbolic acts, all solemnly performed, all anchor them firmly in the new ground.
Content and Photosensitivity Warning:The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that could cause a small percentage of people to experience seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images.
This game also contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content, and strong language. Please enjoy.
Content and Photosensitivity Warning:The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that could cause a small percentage of people to experience seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images.
This game also contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content, and strong language. Please enjoy.
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About The Outlast Trials
Developed and published by Red Barrels and fully released on March 5, 2024 following an Early Access period beginning in May 2023, The Outlast Trials is a prequel to both Outlast and Outlast 2, set in the Cold War era before the events of either game. Players take the role of Reagents, civilians coerced into Murkoff Corporation's program of experimental brainwashing and mind control. The goal is simple on paper: complete the therapy and earn your freedom. The reality is a series of increasingly brutal trials set across oppressive facilities patrolled by grotesque enemies, requiring stealth, resource management, and cooperation to survive.
The game introduces several systems new to the Outlast series. Up to four players can tackle trials together, each choosing from four distinct classes with upgradeable abilities that complement different playstyles. Night vision goggles return as a core mechanic, with battery management remaining a source of constant tension. A deep customisation system lets players upgrade their character, unlock skills, and personalise their cell between trials. The Outlast Trials is a live service game with regular content updates adding new trials, seasons, and events. It received generally positive reviews from critics upon full launch, with praise for its oppressive atmosphere, creative trial design, and the way it translates the Outlast series' signature dread into a co-operative format. The game holds a Very Positive rating on Steam with over 80% positive reviews across more than 50,000 players.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-3770 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB or Radeon R7 360, 2 GB or Intel Arc A310, 4GB
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Network
- Broadband Internet connection
- Storage
- 40 GB available space
- Additional Notes
- Low 720p @ 30 FPS, DX11, Ray Tracing OFF
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- WIndows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 8 GB or Intel Arc A580, 8GB
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Network
- Broadband Internet connection
- Storage
- 40 GB available space
- Additional Notes
- High 1080p @ 60 FPS, DX12, Ray Tracing OFF
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No. The Outlast Trials is not available on Xbox Game Pass. None of the Outlast franchise titles are currently included in the service. Purchasing a key is the only way to access the game. GameBoost offers it at a competitive price with instant delivery.
The Outlast Trials supports both solo play and co-op for up to four players. While you can complete trials alone, the game is designed around co-operative play and many trials are significantly more manageable with a team. Playing with friends also unlocks additional strategies through the class system and team-based abilities.
No. The Outlast Trials is a prequel set before the events of Outlast and Outlast 2, and works as a standalone experience. Familiarity with the series adds context to the lore and atmosphere but is not required to enjoy or understand the game.
Yes. The Outlast Trials is a live service game with regular content updates including new trials, seasonal events, and additional content added on an ongoing basis by Red Barrels. An internet connection is required to play.
Minimum specs require an Intel Core i7-3770 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400, 8 GB RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti or AMD Radeon R7 360 with 2 GB VRAM, and 40 GB of storage on Windows 10. Recommended specs call for an Intel Core i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, 16 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. Note that 40 GB of storage is required — make sure you have sufficient space before purchasing.