Video Shows What Outlast Would Look Like as A PS1 Game

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Red Barrels is currently working on the next installment in the frighteningly disturbing Outlast series. As one of the scariest video games ever created, the original 2013 release set the bar high for the horror genre, giving players one of the most terrifying experiences in recent gaming history. Much of the terror comes from the visuals, with its night vision camera mode, blood-splattered hallways, and oppressive darkness, but a new video shows what the game would possibly have looked like if it was released on the original PlayStation with much blockier graphics.

In the YouTube video, the mod team Rustic Games BR has shown a small section of the first Outlast game in a more pixilated format. The brief clip has the player moving slowly around a number of rooms, viewing everything through its famous camera lens. It captures the retro-look of an old horror game, taking the opening moments of the story and seeing whether or not it could retain any of its originally intended terror. The result is surprisingly affective.

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Even in this era of modern graphical fidelity, with an industry keen to move forward with technology, there is space in the gaming sphere for all manner of pixilated and pixel art video games, and this includes horror. Even with the visuals turned back a couple of decades, this PS1-style version of Outlast still manages to be somewhat creepy, especially towards the end of the video in which the player can see one of the violent antagonists before the clip fades to black.

This is also not the first time the team has created something like this. Rustic Games is known for reimagining modern releases as retro titles. Just recently, the modders