Gamers will be turning off those Twitter notifications on Fridays to avoid spoilers. Xbox will be able to offer gamers a true Netflix-like experience as its own original content makes up the foundation of the platform in the near future. Besides, some of our favorite games of all time are notorious sevens. Along with their continued commitment to bringing major AAA and indie releases to Xbox Game Pass, the day of that game’s release. Microsoft’s major investments into its own video game studios should tighten things up in 2023 and beyond. With that, one or two tiles will not move Game Pass to either end of the pool. What we found in the end result is, Xbox Game Pass is swimming in sevens. By The Numbers Total Number Of Scored Games With many of the older titles, MetaCritic has done a fantastic job digging up old scores. For the newer games, we leaned heavily on our OpenCritic family, as that is where our reviews live. With the help of review aggregators OpenCritic and MetaCritic, we have listed out each game in Xbox Game Pass along with their calculated average critic review scores. Perhaps more information about the evil corporation and the Walrider's involvement will be revealed in the upcoming third installment of the series.Nearly the entire Yakuza family is now on Xbox Game Pass.
The Murkoff Account, a comic series published by Red Barrels, reveals that the last flash of light in Outlast 2 is actually caused by the Walrider from Outlast 1, the spirit-thingy that is deeply driven by a profound hate aimed at Murkoff. It turns out that the helicopter flew too close to the radio towers and its engine stopped working. In truth, this flash of light is the same one that happens during the helicopter ride at the beginning of the game, the one that strands Blake and Lynn in Temple Gate. RELATED: 10 Of The Best Survival-Horror Games On The PlayStation 2 Players assumed this sudden flash of light, reminiscent of a blast, to be a nuclear explosion, much like the one that occurs in Resident Evil's Racoon City. He helps deliver the baby who doesn't cast a shadow, but she dies after saying, "There's nothing there." Blake walks away with the shadowless newborn in tow, but a flash of light suddenly floods the screen. To quickly recap: Blake finds his wife, Lynn, precisely when she's about to give birth to a prophesied anti-Christ child. What are they doing in Blake's flashbacks?Įven players who beat the previous games might have hazy memories about the overarching epilogue that yields more questions than answers. The company used Mount Massive Asylum to conduct illegal human experiments that very much classify as crimes against humanity. Secondly, the Murkoff corporation and its employees serve as the primary veiled antagonists of the first Outlast game. You can catch a quick glimpse of the Murkoff corporation's logo during these recordings. One might very well wonder why this seemingly pointless easter egg is creepy.įirst of all, the fact that the logo is a literal guillotine (which points out the company's evil practices) is already enough to give your spine chills. RELATED: 10 Horror Games That Will Make You Scared Of Schools To make things even worse, you can tape corrupted recordings while in the high school that hide a seriously disturbing message (just like the rest of the game). Something about seeing a familiar, yet deserted place, like an empty school, feels uncomfortably uncanny. The levels that take place here are, undoubtedly, the ones that require nerves of steel to get through. The creepiest encounters in Outlast 2 take place during Blake's flashbacks that bring him back to his former high school, St. Despite that, there are a couple of covert links that tie in the games within the same canonical universe. The characters between these games are also completely different with no familiar faces can be found in either title. Each is its own little nightmare to experience with a camcorder. The original is set in a seemingly abandoned asylum while the latest playable sequel takes place in an obscure, dilapidated town. The two previous Outlast titles seem to have nothing to do with each other. RELATED: 10 Best Horror Games Where You Are Defenseless In addition, we still haven't heard nor seen anything new from Red Barrels.ĭespite that, it's also possible the studio is just waiting for the Halloween period - just about the best time to release a terrific horror game. The proper release date is still to be announced, but predicting a pushback to next year wouldn't be completely out of this world considering most games in production during 2020 were pushed back. The Outlast Trials is set to release sometime in late 2021.