The Outlast Trials just got a huge update, reminding us that multiplayer horror need not be friendslop

The bizarre and violent world of Outlast Trials has been expanded with even more content, as the game's sixth season of content takes us to the world of film and TV production. Project Judas adds loads of new stuff to the game, including a new environment and trial, further expanding Red Barrels' turbocharged co-op horror. And now might be a great time to give it a try. With Project Judas included, The Outlast Trials becomes one of the most content-rich co-op horror games out there. Recently, some friends and I decided to finally give this game a real shot after several months of hopping in and out to see if anything's changed. Daunted initially by the game's overt challenge and (at first glance) annoyingly prolonged matches, we avoided sparing it an honest session for far too long, putting off what turned out to be just the experience for our horror-starved group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3lwJnw4nxk And just as we were gearing up and learning how to actually play the game, which falls more in line with the likes of Resident Evil than the franchise it itself belongs to, Red Barrels decided to drop yet another great content that ups the ante and takes us from auction houses selling actual humans and into the world of TV and film, which is somehow even more horrifying than the former. Another trial, with even more backstory and lore about the Murkoff Facility tied to it, is also part of this new patch, and with this new environment now here, we're probably going to get even more down the line. The lore itself is pretty horrific, and though the singleplayer Outlast games were splatterfests in their own right, they couldn't even hold a candle to the slaughterhouse that are The Outlast Trials. In the world of friendslop, to which I, too, have fallen prey, spending hours upon hours on this game has really been a meaningful change of pace for me (and my friends, but they'll chew through just about anything so long as it can get a good scare out of them from time to time). It proved to me that we've had a very good co-op horror formula right under our noses, one where we're forced to think on our feet, cooperate and communicate so as to successfully escape any given trial. The environments in this game are out of this world. Image via Red Barrels Friendslop, on the other hand, has always been a factory of artificial difficulty, and though there are potentially some exceptions, the small teams making them wind up creating unbeatable, RNG-based AI more often than not. Even so, indie co-op horror games are a treasure trove of innovation and fun concepts, so they still have a special role to play in the future of this interesting genre. But it might do you good to switch things up a bit, and it'll perhaps help you appreciate indie horror more when you see how much it has influenced mainstream titles, which themselves have sprung out from once-indie studios. The post The Outlast Trials just got a huge update, reminding us that multiplayer horror need not be friendslop appeared first on Destructoid.

Mar 27, 2026 - 01:25

The Outlast Trials just got a huge update, reminding us that multiplayer horror need not be friendslop

The bizarre and violent world of Outlast Trials has been expanded with even more content, as the game's sixth season of content takes us to the world of film and TV production. Project Judas adds loads of new stuff to the game, including a new environment and trial, further expanding Red Barrels' turbocharged co-op horror.

And now might be a great time to give it a try.

With Project Judas included, The Outlast Trials becomes one of the most content-rich co-op horror games out there. Recently, some friends and I decided to finally give this game a real shot after several months of hopping in and out to see if anything's changed. Daunted initially by the game's overt challenge and (at first glance) annoyingly prolonged matches, we avoided sparing it an honest session for far too long, putting off what turned out to be just the experience for our horror-starved group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3lwJnw4nxk And just as we were gearing up and learning how to actually play the game, which falls more in line with the likes of Resident Evil than the franchise it itself belongs to, Red Barrels decided to drop yet another great content that ups the ante and takes us from auction houses selling actual humans and into the world of TV and film, which is somehow even more horrifying than the former.

Another trial, with even more backstory and lore about the Murkoff Facility tied to it, is also part of this new patch, and with this new environment now here, we're probably going to get even more down the line. The lore itself is pretty horrific, and though the singleplayer Outlast games were splatterfests in their own right, they couldn't even hold a candle to the slaughterhouse that are The Outlast Trials.

In the world of friendslop, to which I, too, have fallen prey, spending hours upon hours on this game has really been a meaningful change of pace for me (and my friends, but they'll chew through just about anything so long as it can get a good scare out of them from time to time). It proved to me that we've had a very good co-op horror formula right under our noses, one where we're forced to think on our feet, cooperate and communicate so as to successfully escape any given trial.

The environments in this game are out of this world. Image via Red Barrels Friendslop, on the other hand, has always been a factory of artificial difficulty, and though there are potentially some exceptions, the small teams making them wind up creating unbeatable, RNG-based AI more often than not.

Even so, indie co-op horror games are a treasure trove of innovation and fun concepts, so they still have a special role to play in the future of this interesting genre.

But it might do you good to switch things up a bit, and it'll perhaps help you appreciate indie horror more when you see how much it has influenced mainstream titles, which themselves have sprung out from once-indie studios.

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