Red Barrels really hit the ground running with their viscerally frightening video game debut, which, incidentally, involved a considerable amount of cardio. The just-announced Outlast 2 only recently began to slowly reveal itself to us, but it’s a safe bet the sequel won’t stray very far from what worked so well the first time around.
Of the many promising horror games we have to look forward to in the coming year, this may be the game that’s the most interested in pleasing gorehounds. To say Outlast was liberal with its gore is like saying Michael Myers is sort of interested in masks. Saying the game used gore like it was going out of style would be a more accurate way of describing it.
As much as I enjoy ruminating over the troubling revelations that slow-burn horror games like SOMA often leave me with, that style of horror game can’t satisfy my desire to be thrown from my seat by a sudden scare when I make the mistake of lingering too long so I can take in all the gruesome details of what’s probably a human meat closet.
Outlast 2 hits PC, PS4 and Xbox One this fall.
