I helped a parasitic worm eat my neighbour's eyeball in 2025's weirdest horror RPG, and I'd do it again

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I've made 99 mistakes, but Kevin ain't one

Horace knows amended than to speech to radical who luridly carnivore their eyeball-ridden thorax astatine him. Do you?

Part turn-based RPG, part-survival horror, with a sprinkling of metroidvania goodness, Look Outside was ever going to beryllium my jam. But wherever it sank its grotty small hooks into maine was however gleefully punishing it was. My archetypal playthrough rapidly became a cacophony of mistakes, but each 1 moulded my escapade successful ways I ne'er expected.

You play arsenic Sam: an mean schmuck who wakes up to find a large large cosmic entity has plonked itself close extracurricular his flat block, turning anyone who opens their curtains into large blobs of soma and twitching eyeballs. It’s a slayer set-up, but someway acold from the weirdest phenomena going connected successful this world. After Look Outside casually motioned for maine to research its interconnected layout of flesh-covered apartments, I tangled with infants made of teeth, sentient paintings, and adjacent a mound of quality faces successful an endless corridor dimension. It's arsenic overmuch successful emotion with grotesque assemblage fearfulness arsenic cheesy silliness, and the vibes smacked of elite B-movie comfortableness food.

A screenshot from Look Outside, showing the subordinate facing disconnected against the Grinning Beast boss.

But contempt each the goofs and zany characters, it doesn’t messiness around. Combat confines you to gruelling turn-based battles that deplete your dwindling proviso of scavenged household resources. Early on, you person nary enactment members, and it’ll enactment that mode unless you tin person idiosyncratic (or something) to ticker your back. Endgame enemies aren’t arsed avoiding expected ‘tutorial’ zones, truthful look guardant to losing hours of advancement aft sprinting headfirst into a jacked zombie rat.

The cherry connected top? The full happening is connected a timer. 15 in-game days. And it ticks distant arsenic you explore. It’s relentless, and it doesn’t assistance that Look Outside loves baiting you into making mistakes. It’s afloat of captious decisions that person nigh-on game-breaking consequences, and I made plenty of atrocious choices.

A screenshot from Look Outside, showing the subordinate interacting with Nestor aft he's been transformed by Rafta the tube parasite.

My idiosyncratic favourite was becoming invested successful the woes of a talking tube that had a crush connected my neighbour. Really, it was a Shakespearean tragedy. The swooning plumbing’s sanction was Rafta, and she’d fallen for a quality boy, Nestor. Wow, emotion tin adjacent bloom successful an Eldritchian nightmare, I thought. I indispensable rekindle this romance! I recovered Nestor and convinced him to instrumentality Rafta connected a date. It was beautiful… until Rafta turned retired to beryllium a parasitic worm and slid into Nestor’s eyeball, splitting him into fleshy chunks. Then similar a carnal retired of The Thing, his dismembered caput grew legs, ran upstairs, and consumed Eugene the affable limb vendor connected level 2.

But I didn't restart. I wanted to spot however Look Outside adapted to my mistakes. And it didn’t disappoint. If I’d stopped Rafta from nibbling connected Nestor’s eyeball, I wouldn’t person met Kevin: the affable worm that emerged from his mutated remains. And Kevin was a rad dude. I gave him worm eggs, and helium forged maine a ‘worm crown’ that inflicted charm whenever I thumped people.

A screenshot from Look Outside, showing the subordinate interacting with a cockroach successful his apartment.

And Kevin was the archetypal of galore metallic linings. During my combat with the fearsome Rat King connected level 1, I felt underlevelled, and truthful erstwhile the accidental to bow earlier him was presented, I took it. His response? Puke acerb implicit my hunched form. It whitethorn person landed maine successful debuff hell, and the bile had maine chugging supplies, but my respect earned maine the king's crown upon his demise, which I could usage to chit-chat with the section rat population. There was besides my inclination to permission sandwiches for the cockroaches nether my fridge. I didn’t person overmuch nutrient to spare, sure, but my scuttling small buddies yet formed into a precise thankful mechazord cockroach successful shades and a trench overgarment that smoked demons.

I adore the communicative forged from my grisly mistakes. Moreover, I emotion Look Outside being bold capable to fto maine devour capable crap to archer it.

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