But even the simple wrinkle of crouching in the dark with friends gives The Outlast Trials a new feeling, and the differences don't end there. You'll still largely be shuffling through dark hallways in condemned hellholes while unbeatable villains lurk nearby hoping to maim you. A quick glance at gameplay would suggest things aren't all that different. Across several maps-to borrow a term from games usually quite unlike Outlast-teams of up to four will work together to complete a set of tasks while avoiding the monstrous enemies that lurk the halls. The Outlast Trials pits players as figurative lab rats in an unethical Murkoff maze of horrors.

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Every other Outlast experience has been a single-player experience. The biggest difference between The Outlast Trials and the games that precede it is in its co-op-friendly setup. The Outlast Trials, as best I can tell after a weekend with the beta, will never scare me to that same extent, but that might be fine. Reviewing that game back in 2017, it was a rare occasion where I struggled to hit the embargo time simply because I had to will myself to deal with its horrors. Though the mechanics and level design were familiar after having played the first one and its Whistleblower DLC, I found the setting and characters of its doomsday cult to be much more terrifying than the wandering denizens of Murkoff's nefarious asylum in the first game. When I think about the scariest games I've ever played, the one that tends to jump out at me first and foremost is Outlast 2.

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