Like its predecessor, Outlast 2 puts the player in control of a journalist who finds himself with no choice but to, in the words of the intro, “run, hide, or die” from the maniacs who are trying to kill him. As such, it’s hard to see developer Red Barrels’s game as anything more than an immature and hateful slight at anyone who dares to believe in a divine creator or a deity who may have died for their sins.
But unlike Charles Laughton’s masterpiece The Night of the Hunter, which uses Robert Mitchum’s Harry Powell and Lillian Gish’s Rachel Cooper as respective visions of Christian faith at its most evil and most good, Outlast 2 makes all of its God-fearing characters into corrupt figures, from a self-proclaimed prophet who advocates infanticide to a priest who forces a female student to stay after school for lecherous reasons. With countless depictions of people imprisoned, brutalized, and killed in the name of a deranged Christian belief system, Outlast 2 lives up to the upside-down burning cross in its stylized title.
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