Unleashing the Madness: The Outlast Trials’ Latest Update Introduces Nightmarish Weapons and a Haunting Entity
Have you ever considered the most practical gift to get for a girl who seems to have everything? The Outlast Trials has just received a substantial winter update, adding an unexpected element to the already bizarre multiplayer horror game that features a human flesh grinder, a deranged cop, and a man whose head resembles an exploded meatball: hope.
“Project Breach marks a fresh start for The Outlast Trials,” a press release states, “as one of Murkoff Corporation’s captives, Amelia Collier, begins to resist.”
Collier stands out among the other non-playable characters introduced in The Outlast Trials since developer Red Barrels unveiled the online multiplayer in 2023. Unlike its antagonists — who have faces distorted by cracked skin, and souls as tainted as a burst pimple — wide-eyed Amelia seeks to fight for her survival using cunning, rather than brute force. However, she’s patiently waiting, seemingly residing within the Trials’ solid concrete walls.
This brings us to the tooth gun. Project Breach provides Franco, the gluttonous mobster introduced by Red Barrels earlier this year, with a fresh design and a new venue to unleash his trademark tooth-filled shotgun shells.
According to in-game text, the devious researchers behind The Outlast Trials aim to divert attention from Amelia’s careful uprising by “exploring the psychosexual impacts Franco has made on [player characters] by releasing him into a new story trial, ‘Pleasure the Prosecutor.'” In this trial, which is set in the seedy