The developers started teasing their next game. Is Red Barrels working on Outlast 3, or is it a brand new IP altogether?

Unsurprisingly, the studio chose Halloween, October 31, to announce that they are planning to announce their next title shortly. As the team is working on survival horror games (the first-person perspective Outlast (2013), Outlast: Whistleblower (2014), and Outlast 2 (2017) were all made by them), the developers chose the right time to get our nerves going.

But what could the team be making? Two years ago, Red Barrels said on Facebook that „We will, at some point, make an Outlast 3,” but they added that they are working on something else. „It won’t be a sequel to Outlast or Outlast 2, but it will be a distinct experience set in the Outlast universe,” they wrote. Last year, Red Barrels’ Phillipe Morin said that Outlast 3 itself would be „a departure” from the previous games in the series.

So if Red Barrels is hyping Outlast 3, it could be an entirely different experience from them, so it could be a sequel, while it isn’t. We have yet to see. The lower arm says MK-329, meaning it could be once again referencing the MKUltra experiments that the other games have done, but if we see both hands, it could be a cooperative game. Or a spin-off. Or something else.

All we can do is wait for the announcements. Since we’re nearing the end of 2019, we have to ask: is Red Barrels making a next-gen game? Or is it a cross-gen project? Or are they staying with the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One? (Plus the Nintendo Switch, where they also launched all Outlast games.)

„Where freedom ends.” Where does it end?

Source: PCGamer

Announcement coming soon. pic.twitter.com/oZIKMCFHLp

— Red BOO-rrels ? (@TheRedBarrels) October 31, 2019

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