Outlast Review: The Scariest Video Game Ever - GameInsider

Outlast is the scariest game ever, by a mile. Playing on your emotions at a constant rate, all you want to do is survive this amazingly horrible nightmare. The enemies that seek to do you harm are just the appetizers to the main course of scare offered by the games incredible sense of despair and atmosphere ingredient. While character designs could use more work, this is more than forgivable after walking from the asylum.

[hankmoody]

Hoping this make its way to the XB1. Seems like this will be the case. If not, I guess I'll get to play this when I eventually pick up a PS4.

[SteamPowered]

How the hell can Sony give away this gem for PS4, and Xbox users can look forward to......dick all for X1. 360 Games with Gold are ok. But man, Sony, you are nailing it with PS+.

[Thirty3Three]

Finally an ACCURATE review :)

Nice!!

[stavrami-mk2]

yea i can see why its a 9 ..... i won't play it though had a go today and after an hour i just couldn't handle the tension ..

[TruthBTold]

Lol, I started playing yesterday and barely got into the building before I decided to save and continue on the weekend during the day lol. It's all the things peor say about how scary this is that has me scared before I even see anything that actually frightens me. Funny thing is I am always looking for scary movies to watch but I guess since video games you are more immersed you do get frightened much more.

[stavrami-mk2]

i'm actually not a fan of horror films but occasionally i get pulled in by a preview that looks good,but i aint seen a scary horror prob for25 years i think when your a kid you take the fear in more .but i genuinely must say this game gave me the hebe jebe's , nice setting ,fantastic music ,dark ,intense and utterly insane .although i only played about 45 mins i like what i see although i was annoyed about battery life thought it took the piss a little .the thing with me is i play these games in stealth mode like I'm playing thief or dishonoured and i don't think its the way to go at all .i doubt i will revisit it it made me feel uncomfortable lol

[TruthBTold]

That's why I put it on normal so my battery might last longer. We'll see if I can manage to play it tonight. Last scary movie I saw was the exorcist. The rest have been interesting in a scary way but not anything I would sleep over. Games just pull you into the story more. Silent Hilll 2 was another game I loved but took a bit to finish.

[iiwii]

I did the exact same thing. Got it installed started up. Made my way into the Asylum, started up the hallway and made it into the air duct system, and felt like if I played it any more, I wouldn't be getting a good nights sleep (had to work the next day). I'm going to try it over the weekend... during the daytime, lol.

[Squeaky_door]

Even for what it is currently, a game given to Plus subscribers, how does this game even warrant anything above a 7? Beat it and then rethink this games worth. I give it a 6.5 out of 10(on the universal system applied to most games) and that is in no way a bad score for what this game is.

[Sketchy_Galore]

I'm really liking it so far, with the night vision mode on it looks crazy good and is as close to the film Rec (the Spanish one) as I've seen a game get, which is a good thing. I just wish, truly wish the jump scares were done without the loud musical stabs. Some of the scares use sound well and the ambient sound is incredible but the loud stabs of music, a hundred times louder than anything else in the game to make you jump, it just feels like cheating.

Even if they turned up the volume knob on the actual sound of the thing that's supposed to be jumping out and scaring you I wouldn't mind. I don't mind jump scares if they're done well and what annoys me is that for the most part Outlast does them very well, it creates a creepy tense atmosphere and picks the perfect places to shock you, which is why it annoys me so much that they felt they had to pump those scares up with eardrum bursting orchestral stabs. They don't need them, the scares would have been good enough with just a loud crash of wood or growl or whatever noise was actually happening in the environment, even if they needed the music it would still work at a decent volume.

Having the insanely loud musical stabs just keeps me more afraid of the invisible orchestra who are about to jump out and attack my ears than anything on screen. You could scare me in the same way by dubbing similar loud musical stabs over an episode of Tiny toon adventures. I get the same shock of fear when I accidentally put porn on my iPad at full volume with no headphones plugged in. It's cheap and the rest of the game is so well done that it just feels unnecessary.

[Longshot28]

I actually yelped last night, I haven't been startled by anything in the horror genre since I was six.

Good TIMES!!

[slazer101]

Same here. This game made me jump in my seat twice. Never had a game do that to me. Headphones are a must for this one.

[Pintheshadows]

This game gave me a heart condition.

[1nsomniac]

It's not the scariest game in the world.

I'm about maybe 1/2 through the game & there's been 2 really good scares in it so far.

It builds some awesome tension, the sound design & soundtrack is epic as well but the "bad guys" are rubbish.

It's a great game but I don't think it's as scary as say the original F.E.A.R. was. Who knows maybe I probably shouldn't comment until I've completed it but I'm just a bit bitter about the "bad guys" it could of been so much better.

...It's great to see actual scary games back though!

[Rhezin]

yeah the part outside in the yard when it's raining and there is something else outside with you. Freaky as hell. Hoping for that DLC they made for the game.