It’s been a long wait.
It’s been a long haul for The Outlast Trials (opens in new tab), the four-player horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels. It was announced in 2019 as a co-op twist on the hit Outlast horror games, and while a planned 2022 release didn’t happen, we did learn that PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens has a friend he wants to « subject to ethically unsound scientific experiments (opens in new tab) for progress and profit »—his words, not mine—so at least we didn’t go away empty-handed, right?
Anyway, following a closed beta test in October 2022 that attracted nearly one million sign-ups, Red Barrels announced today that The Outlast Trials will finally launch into early access on May 18.
« The Closed Beta was just a taste of what’s to come in The Outlast Trials,” Red Barrels co-founder Philippe Morin said. « Our first round of willing participants to take part in the trials provided us with some insightful feedback and very interesting data, which we have used to improve the experience.
