The Outlast Trials Playtest is a playtest associated with The Outlast Trials, a horror game set in the Cold War era. Its parent game casts players as unwilling human subjects inside Murkoff Corporation’s facility, where experiments in brainwashing and mind control put their identity and sanity under pressure. This grim premise turns survival into part of a wider story about unethical science and coercion.
The parent game’s central trials and shorter MK-Challenges revolve around completing disturbing assignments while avoiding hostile enemies. The described survival approach emphasizes hiding and flight, with tools that can support stealth, create chances to escape, slow pursuers, or help patients. Players can also customize a patient and choose tools, upgrades, and perks, while collecting documents and items connected to Murkoff’s malpractice. These details provide context for the playtest, not a guarantee that every feature appears in it.
The Outlast Trials combines a hostile institutional setting with cooperative survival as an option, while leaving room to face the trials alone. Its distinctive tension comes from the contrast between Murkoff’s promise of therapy and the coercive experiments meant to reshape its subjects. The playtest’s exact scope is not specified, so its contents may differ from the parent game.
