The Outlast Trials

Bloody, brutal encounters where deranged human enemies maim and kill; the player fights back only by throwing bricks or bottles to stun, with no real combat.

Fully nude and mutilated bodies of victims and enemies are shown as part of the facility's horror imagery.

Central premise of involuntary human experimentation, kidnapping, psychological breakdown, and Cold War-era corporate abuse pervades the game.

Sustained psychological survival horror built on vulnerability, stalking enemies, and dread rather than jump scares.

Test subjects are subjected to physical and psychological torture as the game's core scenario, shown on-screen.

Frequent strong profanity in enemy taunts, radio broadcasts, and dialogue.

Players pick up and consume anti-psychotic pills as an in-game item to manage their character's psychosis meter.

Dismembered and mutilated bodies are frequent set dressing and body-horror focus.

Disturbing, grotesquely sexualized imagery and enemies appear amid the body horror, more unsettling than titillating.

The Murkoff Corporation abducts and illegally experiments on unwilling test subjects as the game's premise.

Some enemies and imagery carry implied sexualized menace and threat.

Self-harm and death by the facility's broken subjects are referenced in the bleak lore and environment.