The parts convey something sinister and familiar, but they’re soon splattered with too many strokes of false red and the whole picture becomes little more than another fairground funhouse.'īut hey, you can see for yourself now that it's free. It no longer has a real world analogue, although the impressive fidelity of the graphics occasionally convinces otherwise by showing us objects and textures that we recognise, right down to the scuff marks and imperfections. The asylum as portrayed in Outlast is plucked directly from the horror genre.

'When a place is so far removed from its real purpose, it loses meaning. To be contrary, I think I side with Adam when he said its kooky wakka wakka spooky spoo asylum is just too familiar: Our Outlast review from Ben Barrett was glowing, who said it 'is not an experiment in how games can be scary, it's an exemplification.' This freebie is to celebrate the end of Humble's summer sale, which I understand has a great many games going cheap.

Hit the Humble Store before 6pm on Saturday (10am Pacific) and you can nab both Outlast and its prequel expansion, Whistleblower, in DRM-free and Steam key forms. One of the better 'peer through a camcorder viewfinder while hiding from spooky monsters' horror games which shambled out of the early tensies, Outlast is free for keepsies if you grab it in the next two days.

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