Look Outside

Look Outside is an extremely original project and gameplay-rich masterpiece created in just half a year. The game offers deep narrative, a great variety of actions and possibilities, a multitude of endings, and much more. It is capable of delivering many indescribable emotions that are worth experiencing for yourself.

There’s a sequence in Look Outside I’m never going to forget. I’m in a ravaged apartment, fumbling in the dark for supplies and equipment. The family that lived here was overcome by the thing outside, but it’s not over for them yet. I’m dealing with them one by one, out of a mixture of pity and curiosity I’m not proud of. One of them, used to be a young boy before the teeth erupted from his throat, didn’t attack me first. Whatever’s left of him inside just wants to play with his army men. I found a little green soldier in the kitchen earlier, and, in a moment that feels more like accepting def...

Some terrible phenomenon is taking place outside. Those who look are changed in grotesque ways. Something beckons you to look, too. DO IT. Explore the warped interior of the apartment building you are stuck in. Fight hideous monsters that were once your neighbors. Manage weapons and ammo. Play video games. Craft bombs from household supplies. Cook. Answer the door. DON'T let them in. Keep yourself alive and sane as the world just outside your window stops making sense. PC version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

Look Outside is a unique and dense experience. It leverages its relatively short runtime by being fit to bursting with interesting mysteries, meaningful gameplay decisions, characters both eerie and endearing, and a horror aesthetic that knows when to depict its grotesqueness outright and when to leave things up to the player’s imagination. Its mashup of survival horror resource gathering and turn-based combat is less successful for the way the former garners more satisfying engagement than...

Look Outside is a brand new horror RPG venture all about channelling dread. Controlling a player locked away in an apartment complex during a supernatural horror epidemic and unable to go outside (in fact even discouraged from merely glancing out your window or else some unspeakable illness will befall you), its setting is incredibly effective in putting the player on edge. You anticipate what’s around every corner, scared of what’s to come. You’re assured by Government orders that this...