The first-person creepfest Outlast 2 was recently delayed, from a planned launch in the fall of this year to sometime in the first quarter of 2017. Sad news indeed for fans, but the blow has been softened somewhat by today’s announcement of an Outlast 2 demo, available for all—for a limited time—on Steam.
Outlast 2 is played from the perspective of Blake Langermann, a cameraman who works as an investigative journalist with his wife, Lynn, on “the stories no one else will dare touch.” Your hard-driving, risk-taking ways lead you from the murder of a pregnant Jane Doe to the pitch-black night of the Arizona desert, “and a corruption so profound that going mad may be the only sane thing to do.”
The demo is free, naturally, but it’s only available until November 1—through Halloween, in other words. It will remain in your library permanently as long as you grab it before the expiration so you can take your time playing it, while you build up your fortitude.
In addition, the first two of five planned issues of the Outlast digital comic book, The Murkoff Account, are up at redbarrelsgames.com. It begins with a man with an eyeball hanging out of his face (he can still see out if it!) and then moves to some heads stuffed inside a cooler, for your reading pleasure.
