The Outlast Trials will enter Early Access in May

Independent game development studio Red Barrels have announced that The Outlast Trials will make its debut in the Early Access program, and will be launched on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on May 18, 2023.

Players were first granted access to Murkoff’s Sinyala Facility last Halloween for the Closed Beta experience. Running from Friday 28 October to Tuesday 1 November, almost 1 million players signed up, with successful players racking up a total of 35 years of play time spent in the Closed Beta weekend.

Set in the height of the Cold War era, players take on the role of test subjects abducted by the shadowy Murkoff Corporation. Imprisoned in a secret Murkoff facility, players will be put into a series of physical and mental ordeals, tormented by characters, and challenged alone or in teams to survive with their sanity intact.