The Outlast Trials
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB or Radeon R7 360, 2 GB or Intel Arc A310, 4GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was September 2025. 27 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FOREWARNED ($12.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Lunch Lady ($1.99, scores 63).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 4,982 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 13.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 73, 5.3 times as much.
The rating rests on 111,475 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
33% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3,743 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
had an overwatch match so ass i thought to my self why am i torturing myself in this game, quit that game started playing outlast trials, at least i signed up for the torture in this one
IT'S SUCHHH A GOOD GAME! I didn't have the money to play the first game (Outlast) nor the dlc (Outlast Whistleblower),but I've watched gameplays of both about a year ago and wanted this game for a long while,got it on the 16th of july this year and I've been playing since!Sooo fun with friends and alone too
I absolutely LOVE this game. It might even be my favorite game ever. Its scary and fun and I absolutely recommend playing with friends. Even if you don't have others that want to play, the group find feature is great and the community is amazing and so understanding of new players. LOVE THIS GAME!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Outlast Trials scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1304930/the-outlast-trialsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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