History VideoGame / OutlastII

** There's also the fact that your camera records ''something'' during the school sequences that does not match with reality.

* SequelDifficultySpike: You no longer regenerate health on your own. Instead, you have to [[HealThyself collect and use bandages]] (which take a while to use) to restore your health. It's also a lot harder to find places to hide, as the place has wider space and enemies can use their flashlights to search for you in the dark. The newly added SprintMeter doesn't help either. Expect to die a lot more while trying to figure out how to progress.

** [[spoiler:Datamining of the models reveals the breasts are fake and made of mud and there's a small hint of a Penis under the mud vagina, implying Val is a transwoman.]]

''Outlast II'' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Red Barrels released on April 25, 2017. The game takes place in the VideoGame/{{Outlast}} universe, a highly acclaimed first-person horror game known for its stealth mechanics, unforgettable characters, and excessive {{Gorn}}. Its JustForFun/XMeetsY in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' meets ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming''.

''Outlast II'' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Red Barrels released on April 25, 2017. The game takes place in the VideoGame/{{Outlast}} universe, a highly acclaimed first-person horror game known for its stealth mechanics, unforgettable characters, and excessive {{Gorn}}. Its JustForFun/XMeetsY in VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 meets VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming.

''Outlast II'' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Red Barrels released on April 25, 2017. The game takes place in the VideoGame/{{Outlast}} universe, a highly acclaimed first-person horror game known for its stealth mechanics, unforgettable characters, and excessive {{Gorn}}. Its JustForFun/XMeetsY is VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 meets VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Lynn dies at the end of the game, rendering everything Blake has been through to save her completely meaningless.]]

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: There's a whole lot of flashlights scattered around the village, and Blake can't use any of them. At best, he can pick up the batteries near them to use in his camcorder.

** The night vision was imperative in the original game, as being able to see in the dark was a key advantage you had over the enemies who couldn't. Here though, your enemies can use flashlights, depriving you of that advantage for added terror...for the first third of the game. After you enter the Scalled camp, enemies never use flashlights again and their ability to see is again suitably unreliable.

* WackyWaysideTribe: The Scalled. They don't play any role in the Heretics vs. New Ezekiel conflict, and they neither show up or are mentioned again after Blake encounters them.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:A lot of the final moments of the ending are unclear. Is Lynn's child really the Antichrist? Was the final shot really the apocalypse beginning and/or the Murkoff building exploding? Did Blake really die if either is the case? That is, if the baby was real to begin with.]]

* TheAntichrist: What with Knoth's cult being based around The Book of Revelation-style teachings on the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt End Times]], it makes sense that this would be a subject of the story as well. [[spoiler: In a dark twist, it turns out that Lynn and Blake's child is the Antichrist -- or at least, the cult BELIEVES it is -- and the game ends with her cries literally signaling the end of the world... or at least the destruction of Knoth's compound and the death of Blake and his daughter. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Assuming any of that even happened at all, let alone Blake's "daughter"]].]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Lynn dies giving birth to (apparently) TheAntichrist, Knoth fails to kill the child and instead slits his own throat, and Blake may have been eradicated by some kind of explosion -- either the end times being upon the world, or the Murkoff facility across the town exploding violently. Either way, the entire cast, with the possible exception of Blake, is dead. Worse, it is suggested that neither the end of the world the cult fears, nor Lynn's baby, are actually real. Everyone, protagonists included, has been driven insane by the corrupted microwaves from Murkoff's towers, and the first game/tie-in materials state that exposure to the experiments have given female patients psychosomatic or "phantom" pregnancies. This is hinted at by Lynn's final words, "There's nothing there," even after Blake shows her the baby, the fact that she went through the entire pregnancy over the course of about a ''day'', and the fact that the baby casts no shadow even though Blake does]].

%%* IdiotBall: It never once occurs to Blake (or Lynn, apparently) to pick up any of the flashlights, or weapons scattered throughout the game. It made sense that Miles never did that because 1) he didn't find that many and 2) going toe-to-toe with the Variants is certain death. Blake doesn't have that excuse because most of his foes are diseased, delirious rednecks.
%%** In spite of the life-threatening peril he's in, Blake obstinately holds onto his camera and keeps filming stuff with it. Outside of the night vision mode, it's not particularly useful and it means he only has one hand free. Miles was deliberately trying to document Murkoff's atrocities, but there's no urgency for Blake to be recording the cultists. A flashlight would be less unwieldy, provide better illumination, and double as [[EmergencyWeapon a make-shift club]]. Blake happens across multiple flashlights, so either the thought didn't cross his mind or [[SkewedPriorities shooting his documentary is a higher priority than rescuing Lynn]].

''Outlast II'' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Red Barrels released on April 25, 2017. The game takes place in the VideoGame/{{Outlast}} universe, a highly acclaimed first-person horror game known for its stealth mechanics, unforgettable characters, and excessive {{Gorn}}.

* RealityInsues: [[Blake gets crucified incorrectly by the usual depiction of Jesus having nails through the palms of his hands. The nails should have been driven into the wrists since the skin, tissue, and muscles of the center of the hands are too soft to support a body. This is how Blake is able to free himself, albeit very painfully.]]

** [[spoiler:Datamining of the models reveals the breasts are fake and made of mud and there's a small hint of a Penis under the mud vagina, implying Val is a male pretending to be a female.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Horror rises from desperation and blind faith.]]

* WackyWaysideTribe: The Scalled. They don't play any role in the Heretics vs. New Ezekiel conflict, and they neither show up or are mentioned again Blake encounters them.

* MindScrew: The protagonist constantly teleports between a mountain village and a Catholic school. [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness It's all hallucinations, though.]] ]]