The actual sexual content is very brief, but very disturbing. A man is shown with his buttocks exposed from an apron, and so are some other people. There we go, shhh, shhh.", a man is shown masturbating in front of a toilet, easy to miss and shown from a distance, on countless occasions, people are shown without pants on, but their shirts cover all nudity. Every little crevice until we find that key. A man suggestively cleans a corpse while saying rather sexual things like, "There we go.
The player is threatened with sexual threats and comments, full male nudity is shown from 2 antagonists which chase and hunt you, their genitals are exposed fully. The man shown having sex with the corpse says “silky, silky, silky…” before getting up and yelling at the player. Sexual content and nudity includes a scene where a man is shown having sex with a headless body, this is blink and you’ll miss it as it ends when you walk near it, but the view of this is very graphic. Much less frequent than Outlast II and even Whistleblower. The language is spread out along the story and is used pretty sparingly. The violence goes on and on.Īn estimated 40 or so uses of “f*ck” throughout, use of “sh*t”, “b*tch”, “wh*re”, “a**hole and others, a brief use of “c*nt” in a prison block which can be missed entirely, some sexual dialogue. Violent scenes include people having their heads torn off, a man being viscously stabbed with large, creepy scissors, the protagonist having 2 of his fingers sliced off individually with scissors causing him to vomit afterwards, a prisoner prisoner slam his head against a wall, a man is shown having sex with a corpse (see sexual content), a man is crushed in an elevator, a man is sliced up in a machine, the protagonist can have his head sliced off and other things at death, a man is shot from a first person perspective, killing him, a man crucifies himself and burns on a cross, your u is tossed around, smashed through windows, stomped, beaten, sliced, tortured and more. All of the gore imaginable can be found around the game. Corpses are shown twisted up and turned into disgusting and unbelievably horrifying creations of contorted limbs. The violence in the first game is very gruesome, gory and disturbing, but finds itself the mildest of the 3 games (dlc included) the violence includes: countless bloody and dismembered corpses everywhere with intestines, severed heads, limbs and any organs possible scattered and splattered on any possible environment. This parental review will serve for not only Outlast II, but the first game and it’s DLC “Outlast Whistleblower”, here I will break down the graphic content in detail. Outlast is a very hardcore game series, it’s graphic and uncensored content mixed with the relentless horror creates an undoubtedly genius, but heavy and mature game series. It is disturbing in all the right ways and compelling enough to see to the end and hit the replay button right after. Overall Outlast is an inventive, if often tedious, survival horror experience. However, if a child in their late teens is mature enough to understand the concepts of the videogame then there is no reason to deny them the experience. Not only is the content inappropriate for them, they will not be mature enough to understand fully what is happening thematically or narratively. On this basis alone, Outlast 2 is not a game suitable for children. Outlast 2 pushes to an extreme of cruelty and violence depicted in videogames with bodies of tortured victims, piles of dead babies, mutilated cultists, and the implied sexual assault of others. This is not a game for the faint-hearted, however.
The gameplay is simple but often the trial and error "where am I supposed to go" feeling during chases can become overwhelming especially during the more difficult encounters where being caught will mean your certain death. The majority of the gameplay sees the player running form the murderously psychotic inhabitants of the village as well as Blake's own metaphorical demons during a handful of some intriguing and intense dreamlike sequences. It's premise is a lot look the original in that you are a defenceless protagonist (Blake Langerman) who is searching for his wife, Lynn, after a helicopter crashes in the desert just where a religious cult happens to have built their home.
Outlast 2 is a mature horror experience that delves into psychological trauma, religious corruption, and even paedophilia (in more an implied subtext than explicit theme).