- Publisher: Red Barrels
- Release Date: Mar 5, 2024
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
- Summary: 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?
- Developer: Red Barrels
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, Survival
- # of players: Up to 4
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 16
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Mixed: 8 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Mar 22, 2024Experience the harsh trials together with other players and try not to go mad. Outlast is still scary and engaging.
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Mar 4, 2024The Outlast Trials is a diabolical parade of terrors, riffing off the cult series to provide a chilling online multiplayer PvE experience that doubles as a prequel. With new maps and missions added as it leaves Early Access, Red Barrels makes a strong opening case for its live service horror game – but has yet to prove how this nightmare will keep us coming back for more than a one-off dose of shock therapy.
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Mar 6, 2024Crass horror fare by way of fast, gripping stealth action. The Outlast Trials especially shines co-op.
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Mar 7, 2024Outlast Trials tries to mix its traditional gameplay with online elements, and the result is neither revolutionary nor entertaining, making it more of a spin-off to the original series rather than a cornerstone for future releases.
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Game World Navigator MagazineApr 23, 2024In this co-op stint, Outlast lost most of its story content, ramped up its difficulty and became repetitive. The game has only a few maps and very little variety in tasks. [Issue#263, p.70]
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Mar 4, 2024But if you’re hoping to scare yourself senseless and expose yourself to plenty of shocking scenarios as a reagent for the Murkoff Corporation, with or without friends, The Outlast Trials is undoubtedly worth its retail cost of £24.99 / $29.99 (via Steam) at launch, but if you’re expecting a game that you’ll replay well into 2024 and beyond, I’d temper your expectations.
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Mar 6, 2024While The Outlast Trials is a game that can be completed, it has many issues that currently keep it from being a fun experience. The game is very repetitive and cumbersome while the balance that it has is all over the place. Unfortunately, these issues seem to be only fixable with a lot of reworks and massive patches. Even then, it still won't address the boring gameplay loop and the lack of actual challenge outside of modifiers that only exist to make the game even more frustrating. This is a game that only hardcore Outlast fans can be invested on and thus, it is hard to recommend.
