Another terrifying area is the catholic school that Blake and Lynn attended as children. Especially at night, hunted by flashlight and machete wielding psychopaths, hell bent on cleansing me of my sins. Children of the Corn taught me one great lesson in life, don’t go into a cornfield.

Other areas were littered with totems of people skinned alive, sacrificial chambers, mass graves, and corn fields. The narrative forced me to go to smaller outlying areas of this decrepit town, populated by a coterie of murderous zealots or outcasts stricken by horrifying diseases living in dilapidated cabins, shacks, or lean-to’s - many of them littered with feces, blood, entrails, bones or various body parts, unsettling albeit depressing notes and torn out pages from Knoth’s biblead. Everything that transpires throughout the story is as unsettling as it is macabre and felt like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a love child with The Hills Have Eyes. During the escape, they are ambushed by his loyal followers, who are then ambushed by the Heretics, led by the equally deranged Val taking Lynn away to her underground temple to watch over her until the “End of Days”. After Lynn and Blake escape the church of Temple Gate, Knoth announces to the town that an anti-christ lives inside of her and she must be killed. After waking up from the crash and finding the pilot skinned alive, Blake stumbles upon a church where his wife is being held and raped by the town’s insane leader, “Papa” Sullivan Knoth. As they enter the airspace, their helicopter is shot down and the two are separated by deranged locals. Outlast 2 follows Blake and Lynn Langermann, two journalists out to investigate the murder of a pregnant woman that disappeared in the Havasupai region of Arizona. Outlast 2 serves up the same meaty dish of heart palpitations and sprinkles it with an unwholesome garnish of cerebral terror. Throughout it’s entirety, it consistently made my heartbeat intensify, which forced me to pause the game or wait in hiding for an extended amount of time. It’s mechanics were simple: record everything, run, hide and evade. The original Outlast was a frantic horror game of cat and mouse.

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