The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode Will Put Players at Each Other's Throats With PvP Update Next Week | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

Red Barrels showed up for IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 with a trailer for The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode, a large update coming successful Season 4 that yet introduces its instrumentality connected PvP.

The Invasion Experimental Therapy mode looks much Among Us than Dead by Daylight successful its archetypal two-minute trailer, revealing a twist connected the live-service endurance fearfulness crippled that lets players stalk others portion wearing their tegument arsenic a mask. It’s…creepy, to accidental the least, with Red Barrels prepping its PvP acquisition for Halloween with a merchandise day of October 21, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S.

“You are not your brother’s keepers: you are your father’s children,” an authoritative communicative statement for The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode says. “And a begetter gains the spot of his children by trusting them himself. That’s wherefore the ever-gracious Easterman has provided his beloved children with the tools they request to genuinely sympathize with 1 another: knives, information cameras, and disguises made of quality flesh. After all, sometimes you person to wounded the ones you emotion to assistance them get better… and successful the satellite of The Outlast Trials, harm and healing ever spell hand-in-hand.”

The Outlast Trials launched successful aboriginal entree successful 2023 arsenic a PvE rotation connected Red Barrels’ green-tinted endurance fearfulness video crippled series, with its afloat motorboat pursuing successful 2024. It’s remained successful that abstraction since then, truthful the Invasion Experimental Therapy mode should shingle things up much than ever before.

Players tin entree the mode via the Sleep Room Terminals, wherever they are fixed the enactment betwixt playing arsenic a Reagent oregon an Imposter. Like truthful galore different asymmetrical fearfulness games, those Imposter spots are limited, but their interaction can’t beryllium overstated.

Imposters instrumentality to the shadows and fundamentally service arsenic mimics successful The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode, hunting different players by utilizing surveillance cameras and tricky, fleshy disguises until the clip to onslaught arrives. Red Barrels says Imposters volition past prosecute successful close-quarters combat with aggregate weapon strikes oregon a azygous stab attack.

True stealth is cardinal for killers looking to dispatch different players successful The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode, but different gameplay opportunities volition beryllium introduced with that large Season 4 update. Also connected the mode is the Geister time-limited lawsuit and time-limited catalog, arsenic good arsenic 2 caller MK Challenges – Beguile the Children and Investigate the Minotaur – and a caller in-game store. Players tin besides look guardant to a caller colleciton of Twitch Drops, including Murkoff Cadet cosmetics, a subordinate icon, and more, which volition beryllium disposable to gain from October 21 astatine 7 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. ET to November 18 astatine 6:59 a.m. PT / 9: 59 a.m. ET.

More accusation astir The Outlast Trials Season 4 volition beryllium revealed successful the adjacent future. Until then, you tin work our The Outlast Trials review. You tin besides cheque retired our archetypal aboriginal entree reappraisal for a amended look astatine however Red Barrel has changed its multiplayer spinoff since 2023.

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