History VideoGame / Outlast

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted. Almost everyone Miles runs into that aren't already trying to kill him either do nothing to help him at all ([[spoiler:Father Martin]]) or they just screw him over and make things worse for him ([[spoiler:again, Father Martin, and Richard Trager]]). Hell, [[spoiler:Rudolf Wernicke]], the one person who actually tells Miles the truth and helps him to the best of his ability [[spoiler:actually sends a team of soldiers to kill him! Though this last one could just be that Miles is basically dead ''anyway'' and Wernicke is just finishing him off.]]

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Sort of. Eddie Gluskin, a.k.a. the Groom, the unique stalker who you have to deal with in the final section of the DLC, is actually the patient who was begging you for help at the beginning of the game before being dragged off, put into the Engine, and turned into an insane monster. To be fair, if you had tried to intervene at that point, the only thing you'd have accomplished would have been taking a bullet to the back of the head.[[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that he barely remembers where and when he saw you and just brushes it off as just another memory before 'waking up'. On top of that, the Morphogenic Engine did little to change his M.O. (the mutilation and murder of women), it just gave him a delusion that caused him to see Waylon (and every other male unfortunate enough to come into contact with him) as a potential bride.

* DiabolusExMachina: Waylon is denied from freedom a mockingly large amount of times. The most notable ones include [[spoiler:when he is cut off from contacting 911 in the prison by Blaire (thankfully a Deus ex Machina saves Waylon), when he falls into the Vocational Block, and when he is dragged back into the very same block by Gluskin right after finding the key to the male ward.]]

* RapeAsDrama: An aversion of DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale. Eddie Gluskin not only plans to [[GroinAttack forcibly cut off Waylon's genitals,]] he also makes it ''very'' clear that he plans on consummating the relationship and having children with him. Or, well, trying.

''Outlast'' is a SurvivalHorror game released for Platform/{{Steam}} on September 4, 2013 with a version for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 released on February 5, 2014, and an Platform/XboxOne version released on June 26, 2014.

''Outlast'' is a SurvivalHorror game released for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on September 4, 2013 with a version for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 released on February 5, 2014, and an UsefulNotes/XboxOne version released on June 26, 2014.

* TheExtremistWasRight: Given what the Walrider does to him at the end of the game, Chris Walker ''does'' actually have a point in murdering everyone. However, he is ''not'' going about it in the right way at all, even if 99.9% of the inmates are horrible, raving murderous lunatics and spreading the infection just through their mad existence.

* RewatchBonus: A lot of the ambient dialogue spoken by the inmates makes a lot more sense once you learn the true purpose of the experiments at Mount Massive, but that information only comes towards the end of a first playthrough.

* ResignationsNotAccepted: One orderly attempted to resign from Mount Massive Asylum when he became suspicious of shady activity going on there, according to an e-mail. He was later institutionalized by Doctor Trager as a permanent patient for supposedly having "persecutorial delusions".

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Miles has this start to happen to him a few hours into the game, and by the end he is starting to have the same effects that it took months for already psychotic patients to develop.]]
* ScareChord: Happens when you'd expect it to, and when you pick up any document. Seeing as Mr. Upshur is at the Asylum to find the truth, get used to the noise.

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[[folder: ''Whistleblower'' DLC]]

* IAmAHumanitarian: Frank Manera, a.k.a. 'The Cannibal.' Before first laying eyes upon Manera, himself, Waylon is treated to the sight of a soup pot of human limbs boiling in blood, before turning the corner, and seeing Frank digging ravenously into a whole human. If the player chooses to look closer in on what he's doing, they can see him biting the corpse and drawing blood.

* MurderByCremation: [[IAmAHumanitarian Frank Manera]] tries to kill the player character Waylon like this to cook him up. Waylon has to escape by breaking a weak point of the wall down to get out.

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Once you enter the laboratory near the end of the game, Chris Walker ([[RecurringBoss naturally]]) finds you again and prepares to kill you. Then the Walrider comes out of nowhere, slams him against a few walls, and then violently sucks him through the grate of an air vent]]. If Miles [[spoiler:wasn't killed by being shot, then the Walrider does this again to the officers]].

* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:With Walker dead, and the Walrider's host seconds away from death, Miles is finally ready to escape before he loses what amount of sanity he has left. Then the Walrider possesses him, and shortly afterwards, he apparently gets shot to death]].

** [[spoiler:A random patient saves Waylon at the last moment from the Groom, who was a second away from chopping off his genitals to make him his bride. Maybe. If it was the same patient who warned you about the Groom in the first place, [[BigDamnHeroes then it's just a typical rescue]].]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:Miles killing Billy ultimately led to him getting possessed]].
** [[spoiler:The guards shooting Miles is what led to the Walrider escaping. After Miles dies, the Walrider leaves his corpse and slaughters the guards before presumably escaping to the outside world]]... or so it seems until ''Whistleblower'', which reveals that [[spoiler:Miles is still alive and at least partially in control of the Walrider]].

* NonActionGuy: Miles can't fight off enemies; the most he can muster is an aggressive push, which, due to a patch that removes all of the quick time events, he can't even do in the current game. He can run quite quickly though, and the night vision on his camera lets him have an advantage over all of the inmates he faces. [[spoiler:Miles' inability to fight back is actually explained by a document found later in the game, explaining that even in subjects who are not capable of becoming hosts for the walrider, exposure to the morphogenic engine causes a surge in human growth hormone as well as other hormones; every psycho you encounter is effectively on a heavy steroid cycle, and so far from normal mental processes that they are probably using a LOT more than the normal 50% of their muscle strength that a human is normally capable of employing.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: You find one inmate masturbating... [[ILoveTheDead over a pile of corpses]].

** Gluskin has you tied down and is moments away from dragging your groin into a buzzsaw, but a random patient appears from out of nowhere and tackles him, giving you enough time to break out of the rig he has you tied to and escape.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "Total Security" note obtained when Chris Walker appears in the Prison Block leaves Miles wondering "I hear him muttering about security protocols, containment. What if he's not the problem? What if he's trying to fix it?". We later learn that Chris [[spoiler:is just trying to contain [[AlwaysABiggerFish a bigger problem]] in the asylum by attempting to eliminate all the other possible hosts of the Walrider.]]