The Outlast Trials PC Steam CD Key

The Outlast Trials PC Steam CD Key

This game is not in the form of a CD or disc. After purchase, you will promptly receive an original Steam key via email, which you can activate on your PC and download the game directly to your library. Full description
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€41.88
Overview

The Outlast Trials PC Steam CD Key

Release Date: 18/05/2023
 

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you tackle the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you go… but will you be the same?

In the Cold War era, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good people of Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morality will be questioned, your resilience tested, and your mental health crushed. All in the name of progress, science, and profit.

SURVIVE: SOLO OR CO-OP

All of you are Murkoff's prisoners trapped in their facility. You can choose to complete the trials alone, or you can tackle them in a team of 2, 3, or 4 players.
Co-op is never forced when it comes to mandatory objectives, but collaboration can be very beneficial.
No matter how many players are in your party, the goal is to survive and get out.

Ultimately, your aim is to complete Murkoff's therapy and earn the right to be released back into society. To do so, you must complete the trials and MK challenges.
The trials are immersive narrative therapies that take a certain amount of time to complete. MK-Challenges are shorter therapies occurring in modified or remade sections of existing maps.

HIDE OR FLEE

In true Outlast fashion, the core gameplay revolves around avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to escape. Murkoff will provide tools that you can use to enhance your stealth abilities, create opportunities for escape, slow down enemies, and more. However, you will have to earn these tools and work hard to upgrade them.
These tools will allow you to

  • Stun enemies
  • Blind them
  • See through walls
  • Heal yourself and those around you.

Murkoff will ask you to carry out disturbing tasks in each test or MK challenge. Only after you complete them will you be able to leave the trials or MK-Challenges.

CHARACTER CUSTOMISATION

Customise and create your own test subject.
Your cell is your home; while you complete therapy, you can decorate it as you wish.
Choose tools, upgrades, and perks to suit your playstyle.
Meet the residents of Murkoff's Sinyala Facility in The Outlast Trials. Each of them will try to help you get through the trials in one piece! Do you think you can handle it?

INVESTIGATE

You have been abducted by Murkoff Corporation to undergo unethical experiments that will alter your psyche and behaviour during the trials.
Collect documents and items that will help prove Murkoff's neglect towards its patients.

Process:

  • Break the Self: Murkoff aims to shatter the core beliefs of the test subject. Aspects of their own identity are systematically attacked. Just like a boot camp or indoctrination, the goal is to force the individual to cleanse themselves of everything considered sacred or taboo, from things that limit their behaviour. A constant assault on identity, guilt, and self-betrayal ultimately leads to their disintegration.
  • Build the Self: It's the bad cop, good cop principle. The rejection of the old ideology leaves a vacuum into which a new ideology can be introduced. As a counterpoint to the old ideology, it creates a perfect attractive point when a person flees from the old in search of a contrasting replacement. This progress is accelerated as the new ideology is portrayed as harmonious and ideally suited to the individual's needs. Collegiality and calm are replaced by pain and punishment. Just when the individual fears the destruction of their self, a small kindness is offered, a brief respite from the assault on their identity.
  • Salvation: Faced with the sharp contrast of past pain against the rosy glow of the future that the new ideology represents, the individual sheds their last allegiance to the old ideology, confesses all remaining deep secrets, and adopts the entire cloak of the new ideology. This is often felt and described by many as a form of rebirth. It may be accompanied by rites of passage as the individual is accepted and integrated into the new order. Rites usually involve strong declarations from the person of full and complete acceptance of the new ideology and pledging loyalty to its leaders. Saluting flags, kissing other artifacts, and other symbolic acts, all ceremoniously performed, firmly anchor them in the new land.

Content and Photosensitivity Warning:

The Outlast Trials contain strobing and flashing lights that may cause a small percentage of people to have seizures when exposed to certain lights, patterns, or images.
This game also contains intense violence, bloodshed, explicit sexual content, and coarse language. Enjoy.

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Total price incl. VAT €41.88