Outlast: Whistleblower is an adventure developed by Red Barrels, released 6 May 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 2.8 hrs to finish.
What Outlast: Whistleblower is
Outlast: Whistleblower is an adventure game developed by Red Barrels and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Starting as a prequel to Outlast, Outlast: Whistleblower puts you in the shoes of Waylon Park, software engineer and whistleblower. Witness the events behind the Mount Massive Asylum outbreak and try to make it out alive.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Outlast: Whistleblower holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 158 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.8 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 2 GB RAM and 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX / ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Outlast: Whistleblower launched on 6 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor and Child of Light. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Outlast: Whistleblower yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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