Outlast: Trinity is a compilation including Outlast, Outlast 2 and the Whistleblower DLC.
Outlast is a first-person survival horror game with stealth elements. You play as Miles Upshur, a freelance journalist who breaks into a long-abandoned, but recently re-opened mental asylum. Inside he finds dead bodies, mental patients and a hint of some terrible experiment gone wrong.
As Miles wanders though the asylum he encounters various mental patients, both passive and aggressive. Stealth approach is advised, since if aggressive patients spot him they will try to hunt him down searching the area where they last saw him. Miles has no means to protect himself, but he can effectively hide behind and under the furniture, climb ledges and slide in narrow gaps. The only tool he has is a video-camera with night vision function that allows him to navigate dark places. Night vision consumes batteries which Miles must collect throughout the asylum.
At certain scripted moments the stealthy pace of the game changes and Miles finds himself hunted by the patients in runaway sequences reminding of the escape from the hotel in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
Outlast 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast. Set in the same universe as the first game, but with different characters and a different setting, Outlast 2 is a twisted new journey into the depths of the human mind and its dark secrets.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
You are Blake Langermann, a cameraman working with your wife, Lynn. The two of you are investigative journalists willing to take risks and dig deep to uncover the stories no one else will dare touch.
You’re following a trail of clues that started with the seemingly impossible murder of a pregnant woman known only as Jane Doe.
The investigation has lead you miles into the Arizona desert, to a darkness so deep that no one could shed light upon it, and a corruption so profound that going mad may be the only sane thing to do.
Whistleblower is DLC for Outlast and acts as a prologue set just before the events of the original game as well as an epilogue. After the introduction the story soon runs parallel with the main game. The player takes on the role of software engineer Waylon Park, the man who tips off Miles Upshur, the protagonist of the main game, about the events in the Mount Massive Asylum. Park works at the asylum for Murkoff Corporation working directly with the Morphogenic Engine for the experimental treatment of patients and he witnesses the torture that Billy Hope endures. After sending an e-mail to Upshur informing him, he is caught by his employed Jeremy Blaire and forced to endure the Morphogenic Engine himself for two hours as a test. However, as the supernatural entity Walriders escapes and causes mayhem at the institution, Park manages to escape. His goal is to escape the facility and inform the authorities.
The game reuses some assets of the original game’s environment, but the journey is in a reversed order. Park starts in the underground laboratories and needs to make his way up to the asylum. Next to the existing cast, the game introduces the new characters Jeremy Blaire (Park’s employer) and the patients Eddie Gluskin and Frank Antonio Manera. The gameplay is identical, with a focus on stealth and navigating the environment to avoid encounters. The horror elements with gruesome scenes remain present and Park too uses a camcorder that provides night vision. Just like the original game he is powerless against ghouls and needs to flee when spotted. There are generally less encounters with patients compared to the original game. Various conversations and notes provide background to the story.
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