The ENTIRE Outlast Story... So Far... 2023

You are Blake Langermann, cameraman, and husband to Lynn Langermann, an investigative journalist who’s looking into the suspicious murder of a pregnant woman in rural Arizona.
Your trip starts on a helicopter, where you wake up from a dream. In the dream, you see an old friend you had in the 4th grade by the name of Jessica Gray, who committed suicide.
After waking from the dream, you begin to discuss the details with Lynn. There’s a sudden flash of light which causes the helicopter engine to fail and results in a serious crash, separating you from your wife.
The search for Lynn begins. In your desperation to find your wife, you run into crazed and homicidal villagers.
The flash of light shows up again and causes paralysis among the villagers. You manage to avoid succumbing to the light.
You find your wife. She is obviously very traumatized and will not speak about her experiences. You both decide to focus on trying to escape.
Prophet Knoth, leader of the religious cult members you keep running into, announces Lynn is pregnant with the antichrist and sends his followers, the Christians, on a mission to find and kill her.
You and your wife bump into a Christian search party. Another group called the heretics joins you, but after killing the Christians off, they decide to abduct Lynn, leaving you alone in the woods.
You manage to evade the search parties but there is another light flash which prompts you to have a flashback. In the flashback, you’re back in catholic school where your friend Jessica, committed suicide.
After you come to, you run into a man named Ethan. He reveals himself to be the father of Anna Lee, the pregnant woman you and your wife were investigating.
During his explanation of the story, Ethan summarizes that Prophet Knoth raped Anna, got her pregnant, and then sent Ethan to kill her. Instead, he lied to Knoth, giving her a chance to flee.
As stated in the police report, Anna Lee still died from strangulation and had high traces of mercury in her bloodstream.
Ethan helps you and allows you to hide in the basement of his home. Ethan is murdered by an old cult member by the name of Marta who is unaware of your presence in the basement.
You flee from Ethan’s home, evading more search parties. You find a chapel and encounter a man named Josiah. He’s restrained and missing his eyes.
Josiah reveals that he was punished because he refused to tell the cult where Lynn is being kept.
You conceal yourself in the confessional, and watches as Knoth tortures Josiah’s spouse, Mary until he finally confesses that Lynn is the mines with the heretics. Knoth kills Josiah and Mary.
On your way to the mines, Blake’s visions get darker and more frequent. You encounter Laird and Nick who dub you the Sculled Messiah.
They attempt to re-enact the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus by nailing you to a cross. When you try to escape, you’ll fail and end up getting buried alive.
Eventually, you manage to escape and are tasked with evading another religious cult called the Sculled.
You stumble upon a boat and make a raft. As you make your descent down the river, your visions continue to worsen.
You reach land and continue towards the mines, evading a group of heretics.
When you reach the mines, you’ll find an elevator which proves to be faulty. It breaks and plummets into the darkness.
You survive the fall, and deep inside the mines, you encounter Val and her group of heretics from earlier. They don’t want to give up Lynn and attempt to kill you.
You manage to escape Val but mistakenly end up in the middle of a heretic gathering where you find Lynn.
Val finds you and you have another vision. This time revealing an important piece to the plot. In his vision, you see what happened to Jessica before she committed suicide.
When you awaken, you find yourself still in the mines. You’re chased by some heretics until you find the exit. You also encounter Lynn.
Together you flee from the mines. You’ll run through the woods as a storm rages on.
Marta shows up and tries to kill the both of you. Before she can, the cross from the top of the church falls down and kills her.
Inside the chapel, Lynn dies giving birth. Blake passes out with the baby in his arms.
When you awake, Knoth is sitting next to you. He starts rambling on about killing all of the Christians and then instructs you to kill the baby. He then commits suicide by slitting his throat.
Blake walks down to the square with the baby. It appears that everyone is dead.
You have one last vision. A girl that looks like Jessica is in the Catholic school kitchen with bruising around her neck. After she says a prayer, the game comes to a finish.
As the story in Outlast 2 progresses, you’ll notice that Blake slowly starts to lose his mind. His visions of Catholic school and the events surrounding the death of Jessica Gray begin to consume him because of the residual guilt and a feeling of being personally responsible for her suicide.

In Blake's vision, it's revealed that he and Jessica had a somewhat romantic relationship. Blake expresses feelings for Lynn to Jessica. They get caught hanging around late at school by Father Loutermilch who tells Blake to go home. Jessica asks Blake not to leave and shows concern for being alone with Loutermilch. Despite her pleas, Blake leaves and can hear Jessica screaming. She's violently assaulted by Loutermilch and Jessica is devastated that Blake would abandon her when she needed him the most. She later commits suicide by hanging herself.

In your visions, the demonic entity you see is Father Loutermilch. This is revealed by the mark above the phantom’s right eye, which is in the exact same spot as the scar on Father Loutermilch’s face.

During your playthrough, you’ll find a Document called Old Traveler sticking out of a sleeping bag by the lake. The entry goes into detail about the source of the light you see repeatedly throughout the game. This light is a signal emitted from a nearby radio tower and is used for brainwashing/mind control. See our guide to all the document and recording locations in Outlast 2 for where to find these collectibles.

In the same Document, Jenny Roland, also known as Jennifer Roland, the pathologist from Mount Massive Asylum, is mentioned. This reveals that the device is made by the Murkoff Corporation, the very same company behind the MKULTRA program that ravaged Mount Massive Asylum.

Eventually, the prolonged exposure to the signal drives everyone in the village violently insane causing them to turn on one another and kill each other. As for the ending to Outlast 2, we can only speculate about what happened to Blake and the baby. Outlast 1 A few decades ago right after World War II, American government have started Operation Paperclip. During it, hundreds of German scientists were moved to the USA to work there. Their researchers were focused on different objects such as atomic energy, rockets V-2 or human psychology. Scientists were put in secret laboratories or hospitals where they can work remaining almost invisible for entire American society.

But nothing stays buried forever and secrets of former Nazis were revealed in 1971. That was only one small group, but their hideout was closed and they were fired. That hideout was Mount Massive Asylum. Later, in 2009 new group of scientists called Murkoff Corporation being secretly supported by CIA reopened this asylum to continue researches. They wanted to create a supernatural entity which can be controlled by humans.

That was a preamble and now we are close to the story of Outlast. The protagonist Miles Upshur receives an anonymous message about cruel experiments in Mount Massive Asylum. He decides to travel there and reveal secrets of this strange place. Miles enters the building and finds ruined halls, corpses of workers and patients. Our hero also finds a dying guard which warns him about the incident. The asylum is full of mutated inmates now…

Miles wants to leave this place, but Chris Walker catches him. Yes, that is the big guy who wants to kill you. Chris is a former security officer of Murkoff. Anyway, he throws Miles in the atrium where another freak is. Father Martin tells the story of the incident and claims that Miles is his apostle which has to tell the world about Mount Massive Asylum. Martin forces a journalist to discover all secrets.

Let’s pass about 80% of the gameplay when Miles exploring his new prison, running from maniacs and trying to survive. He meets Father Martin again near the end of the game and reveals that there is the Walrider, a swarm of nanoparticles controlled by one of the comatose patients called Billy Hope. Martin then immolates himself telling that the elevator is usable now. That last trick causes that Miles descends into a kind of lab under the surface.

There our hero finds Rudolf Wernicke, a former Nazi, and scientist in Murkoff Corporation. Rudolf claims that the Walrider drives mad and wants to kill everybody here so Miles should deactivate a life supporting system of Billy Hope, the Walrider’s host. Miles accepts it, but after deactivating becomes a new host for a strange entity. At the end soldiers of Murkoff with Wernicke try to kill Miles, but the Walrider protects him and murders guards. As Outlast left a lot of questions developers created this additional story. It starts with actions of the original game and ends a bit after that. Here the main protagonist is Waylon Park, one of the workers in the asylum. His story explains what’s going on in this building. Smart folks from Murkoff exploit the Morphogenic Engine to control dreams of patients. They create the Walrider, a kind of ghost consisting of nanoparticles and slightly controlled by humans’ will.

Waylon sends an e-mail to Miles Upshur with the description of inhuman tortures and researchers. Then the Walrider crushes his chains only two starts the incident. Waylon gets rid of his own bonds and runs to the exit. His adventures are quite similar to ones of Miles as he even moves the same way, but mirrored. After several encounters with mutated patients and bosses Waylon leaves the asylum and spots a car near entrance…

Yes, Miles Upshur came by this car. But Miles now is near the main door of the building possessed by the Walrider. This episode shows that Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower is taking action on the same day. Waylon with his videos recorded on the camera leaves the asylum safely and Miles remains there. It’s also not specified whether Rudolf Wernicke survived or not. But it’s obvious that Murkoff Corporation is still dangerous.

In the last scene of this additional story, Waylon decides to upload his videos and opens secrets of Murkoff to the world.