By completing a series of trials, players can earn their freedom from the vault where they are kept. Flashing us back to 1959, this shadowy organization is now working with the CIA to create sleeper agents as part of the MK Ultra Program through the use psychological and physical torture. With so much horror and destruction in this organization’s wake, what exactly are the origins of the Murkoff Corporation? That’s what The Outlast Trials seeks to answer. Through the game’s events we learn that an experimental Murkoff mind control station in the nearby mountains is what caused everyone’s zealous insanity. We see the Corporation rear its ugly head again in Outlast 2, where we follow a new investigative journalist Blake Langermann who finds himself searching for his wife in a small town overrun by violent cultists who believe the town is at the edge of Hell. intelligence operation after WWII), the Murkoff Corporation is shown to have been running all kinds of experiments - producing monstrous “variants” in the process. Having been part of Operation Paperclip (an actual secret U.S. Upon investigation after running in terror through the dark, with only a battery-powered night vision camera to help, Miles uncovers a decades-long experiment run by German scientists. The first Outlast follows investigative journalist Miles Upshur as he attempts to uncover secrets about the Murkoff Corporation, receiving a tip about inhumane testing at Mount Massive Asylum.

With major cultural references like the Saw franchise, the Stanford Prison Experiment and brain-washing psychology influencing its development, this title lays important context for the Murkoff Corporation and its experiments seen in the previous games. Serving as a prequel to the first two games, The Outlast Trials releases to Steam Early Access after six years of development. From developer/publisher Red Barrels comes a third entry into the Outlast franchise: The Outlast Trials. The Murkoff Corporation demands our attendance in a series of… therapies…that will prepare us for a glorious rebirth.

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