

This attitude is intended to blur game and reality, connecting players with the trials and the horrors taking place at the Murkoff facility on a deeper, more fundamental level. “We want players to see the game devs as Murkoff, building environments and patching holes in their trials,” Morin says. The psychological brainwashing known as Thought Reform is central to the experience of The Outlast Trials and its development. You are constantly reminded of the failings of society as well as the limits of your own personal beliefs The main inspirations include Saw and Cube films, The Stanford Prison Experiment, MK Ultra, and Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton. Collect documents and evidence of Murkoff’s malpractice against its patients.In an interview with senior game designer Phillippe Morin and game director Alex Charbonneau, we discussed the inspiration behind the more psychological elements of The Outlast Trials. When the Murkoff Corporation abducts you to be one of their test subjects to go through unethical experiments that will modify your psyche, you will do what it takes to survive and discover the truth.

