
With no weapons at hand, Langermann’s equipment consists of a camera with batteries that get drained fast. The player must keep track of how long he runs before his stamina runs out and he starts moving slower. He also has access to a wide variety of hiding places, including lockers, barrels, closets, beds, pools of water, tall grass, cornfields, and houses to avoid close encounters with enemies.

Much like in the original game, the character can walk, crouch, run, leap, slide, climb, and more, in order to avoid the enemies and the obstacles ahead. In the majority of the game, he is forced to just flee and hide from the many hostile members of Temple Gate. Langermann’s fighting abilities are limited only to predetermined cutscenes. After a helicopter crash separates Blake and Lynn, he needs to make his way through a village populated by cult extremists in order to find her. Players control a journalist called Blake Langermann, who, together with his wife, Lynn, is investigating the death of an unidentified pregnant woman in the Arizona desert.

The game is a follow-up to the 2013 game Outlast but comes with a completely new story. Outlast 2 is a psychological horror survival video game played from a first-person perspective.
