2. Outlast

Outlast Gameplay

Outlast may have started as a fairly small indie horror game—taking inspiration from Amnesia’s combat-free gameplay—but it quickly blew up into being the poster boy for the entire genre.

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist investigating a tip about evil-doings at the supposedly abandoned Mount Massive Asylum. Armed with only your night-vision-capable camcorder, you quickly learn that you are not at all prepared for the horrors within.

With psychotic inmates running amok, you have no choice but to run and hide. But the true horror comes when facing the real results of the shadowy Murkoff Corporation’s vile experiments. Psychopaths pushed physically and mentally beyond the breaking point; inhuman monsters that want nothing more than to torture and kill you in as gruesome a manner as possible. The terror is almost enough to make you want to give up at times, but that investigative journalist’s drive keeps you pushing towards the truth. The world needs to know what happened here…

Just inspecting the bedsprings: your camera’s night vision is crucial in the darkness, but batteries are limited...

Paint the town red: if decrepit asylums weren’t already on your ‘places not to go’ list, they will be now