CCRB RECORD No. 0030
Outlast 2
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3, Blasphemy 3
A doomsday cult takes you for their Antichrist and stages a crucifixion.
Outlast 2 is the catalogue's most sustained treatment of an explicitly Christian cult. Blake Langermann crashes in rural Arizona among Temple Gate, a settlement under Sullivan Knoth, who preaches from scripture he wrote himself and holds that the end described in Revelation is imminent. The cult's practice is infanticide: Knoth teaches that the Antichrist will be born among them and orders newborns killed. A splinter faction, the Heretics, believes the opposite and wants the child delivered. Blake is taken for a figure in the prophecy and, at the game's climax, subjected to a mock crucifixion. Interleaved with all of this is a flashback thread set in a Catholic school, where the protagonist's guilt over a classmate's death is bound up with a priest.