Outlast 2

 Xbox One
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 160 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 107 out of 160
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 160
  3. Negative: 30 out of 160

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  1. GMRlife
    May 15, 2017
    4
    The original Outlast and it's DLC, Whistleblower, were works of art, so Outlast 2 was ripe with potential from the start. Outlast 2 leaves the confines of the Mount Massive Asylum for a backwoods, religious complex in Northern Arizona and starts out with a bang.

    The immediate setting is eerie and surreal. The player is left with a real sense of anxiety which is heightened by the macabre    The original Outlast and it's DLC, Whistleblower, were works of art, so Outlast 2 was ripe with potential from the start. Outlast 2 leaves the confines of the Mount Massive Asylum for a backwoods, religious complex in Northern Arizona and starts out with a bang.

    The immediate setting is eerie and surreal. The player is left with a real sense of anxiety which is heightened by the macabre setting. WIthin minutes of the game starting, the setting of a horrific tale begins to unfold in front of you. Unfortunately, that narrative never pans out... at all. The story itself goes from one setting to another without rhyme or reason. The ending makes no sense with the events that unfold just prior. Leaving the player to guess... or with an unfinished game that will try to tie up the loose ends in a piece (or pieces) of DLC.

    The gameplay is the familiar Outlast formula. You run and hide, using a video camera's night vision to see what is lurking in the dark and to record certain events to unveil Langermann's thoughts of the scene unfolding before him. There is no offensive action the player can take at all. Red Barrels explains that Blake and his wife, Lynn, "are not fighters, leaving Blake to simply run headlong into dangerous situations filled with murderous zealots, looking only for bandages and batteries while ignoring the plethora of weapons or tools lying around. While this may not seem like a big problem, it does break the immersion.

    The game does have it's disturbing moments, but they are few and far between. Nothing is terrifying or scary, and even the few jump scares are predictable enough to be more of an annoyance than anything else. Gore is not necessarily horror, and while Outlast 2 has barrels of gore, the horror (and any replayability) just isn't there.    … Expand
  2. YaMi4eK
    Feb 19, 2022
    4
    A very good horror story. Not the scariest horror, but always kept in suspense
  3. ZackH25
    Mar 23, 2023
    3
    Definitely worse than the prequel, the phasing in and out of the school map and the real-world map is annoying. Some of the level design was good and open but eventually it just got tiring. The main antagonist is cool at first but then gets just weird. So disappointing as well.

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#70 Best Xbox One Game of 2017
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#39 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2017
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#73 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2017

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jun 18, 2017
    60
    Glimpses of horrors can't save this horrifically frustrating experience. [July 2017, p.88]
  2. XboxAddict
    May 15, 2017
    80
    Outlast 2 successfully places you in the boots of an average Joe. As much as we all would like to think that we’d rise to the occasion and be a hero with great evil-killing potential, I think this game most accurately portrays how we’d actually have to cope with such incredible and horrific situations. In this regard the game succeeds one hundred percent - and its infuriating, but in a strangely captivating and "want to play more" manner! Well done.
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  3. SomosXbox
    May 12, 2017
    88
    Outlast 2 takes back the very best from Red Barrels: tension, slaughter and pure survival. It brings us a well-drawn and complex script, starred by Blake Langermann, a character to empathize with. Despite its few playable errors, Outlast 2 and Sullivan Knoth’s sect will manage to sneak into our darkest nightmares.
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