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Outlast 2 wastes no time getting the player familiar with the story and its 2 main characters. It doesn’t get any more horror than that, and Outlast 2 follows the same formula exactly to a T. Helpless freelance journalist finds himself in an old run-down psychiatric hospital that’s filled with deranged escaped patients. It plays perfectly into the video game medium. Reading up on the original Outlast’s story did give me hope that this was an amazing horror series. Any game can throw a bunch of jump scares at the player, but it takes some good storytelling to induce fear and get my blood pumping. But I found that most streamers I watched didn’t get too deep into Outlast’s story, which ultimately is what makes a horror game stand out to me.

I quickly found out that it had a decent following and gained a lot of it’s popularity due to Twitch streamers scaring the hell out of themselves for their audience’s enjoyment. How scary can these games be?īefore I began my playthrough of Outlast 2 I wanted to familiarize myself with the first game. Being the horror fan that I am, I jumped at the opportunity to give Outlast 2 a go, which was personally exciting considering that I never found the time to even begin the original Outlast. Now, usually when a game gets turned down it’s either because the writer already has another assignment or that particular genre isn’t to their liking, but Outlast 2 was passed over because the staff was in actuality too frightened to play it. The game was turned down 3 times almost immediately. When the review code for Outlast 2 made its way to Hey Poor Player the reactions from the staff were genuinely hilarious.