Outlast release date announced, enter the asylum on September 4

Red Barrels are all set to release Outlast, a survival horror that got a lot of attention during E3. It has everything a horror game needs - A scary atmosphere, creatures chasing after you, and a story involving your character doing something stupid like going inside an abandoned asylum with a camera alone......at night.

September 4 is the date on the PC and will cost you $19.99.

What's interesting about this game is the use of the camera.  The night vision on the camera is your source of light and we all know how that works. Hopefully Outlast will give the horror genre a boost it deserves since we hardly get games like these.

Outlast was also announced for the PS4. No word if this will be a release title or will come out  sometime next year.

E3 2013: First gameplay footage of Outlast

Aside from The Evil Within, Outlast is another survival horror that's shaping up to be a game to watch out for, if you want a really good scare of course. For PC and PlayStation 4, this game revolves around a journalist entering an abandoned asylum. Of course he regrets that decision when he realizes what was going on inside. Have a look at the gameplay below.

The gameplay gives a strong resemblance of horror movies taken in the cameraman's perspective(Blair Witch Project), which is a good twist in the genre. The night vision is also a nice touch and seems to be required most of the time. It's being developed over at Red Barrel games, a new studio mixed with ex-splinter cell developers. This will be their first game, and it looks like they will be off with a good start.

Outlast - Official trailer

It's expected to be released later this year for PC and PS4.

Outlast - A New Survival Horror Game that's looking good

For a long time now, the survival horror genre is being kept alive by indie games. Games such as Amnesia and Slender are latest horrors that could potentially keep you up all night. Outlast is also an indie title planned for the PC that looks to be just as frightening. Outlast is being developed over at Red Barrels, a new studio with developer veterans that worked with famous game franchises such as Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and the upcoming Far Cry 3. Check out the impressive teaser below.

Outlast is a story of a journalist who breaks into a long-abandoned asylum on a tip, only to find that it was a bad idea after all. Breaking into an asylum? When was that ever a good idea?

From Press Release:

In the remote mountains of Colorado, horrors wait inside Mount Massive Asylum. A long-abandoned home for the mentally ill, recently re-opened by the “research and charity” branch of the transnational Murkoff Corporation, has been operating in strict secrecy… until now.

Acting on a tip from an inside source, independent journalist Miles Upshur breaks into the facility, and what he discovers walks a terrifying line being science and religion, nature and something else entirely. Once inside, his only hope of escape lies with the terrible truth at the heart of Mount Massive.

Outlast is scheduled for a PC release next summer 2013.

[Source: Red Barrels official site]