Dev unaware it would take 6 years to make The Outlast Trials

Red Barrel Games didn’t think it would take six years to develop The Outlast Trials. If it knew it would take that long, things could’ve been different — we could’ve seen Outlast 3 already.

Speaking to Windows Central, senior game designer Phillippe Morin explained why it decided to make The Outlast Trials over the anticipated three-quel. Apparently, the team was “a bit fed up” — assumingly due to switching over to Unreal Engine 4 — and took four to five months brainstorming ways to use the new tech. The team managed to come up with a challenge for the project, like it always does — “be more narrative with Outlast 2 than 1, this time it was multiplayer.”

In hindsight, Morin admitted if it knew that it would take six years to make the game, it probably would’ve made Outlast 3 first. But, in the end, it’s happy with the game and it has been worth the six-year development cycle.

With The Outlast Trials, you assume the role of a journalist alongside other players as you try to escape the looming threat of Murkoff Corporation experiments. It’s already fostered a large community in its time in early access, with 500K sold in its first week, though it does have a slight dip in players based on SteamDB, we’re sure, once its full release happens on Tuesday, another large spike of players will emerge.

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