Good horror game with a fantastic atmosphere. Some really good scares and tense moments, however at some points it can lean to more of a tedious feel to the gameplay. This particularly applies to some of the Chris Walker sections of the game. These however are also some of the most tense, not too many of these tedious moments however. Some jumpscares were a little cheap, but they sometimes managed to get my heart to at least jump a bit. Navigating the map is awesome, with a solid amount of exploration. I did play on normal difficulty, so this may change with higher difficulties, but I did not ever really feel at risk of running out of batteries besides maybe the first hour of the game. At around the mid-way point of the game I basically just stopped managing the night vision. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the game for me was when you lost the camera momentarily, and you had to endure the darkness more. If the scarcity of batteries was more prevalent, it would have been much more tense and enjoyable in my opinion. Story was solid overall, but nothing crazy special. The big part of the game for me was the immersion and reading the logs. I always looked forward to reading the next set of documents, and would get genuine chills at points when I would piece things together, or find one report that references another previous document. The game still holds up today a decade later, and was well worth the purchase. Looking forward to trying the DLC and Outlast 2 next.

Reviewed on Jan 05, 2024


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