outlast 2 · horror · psychological thriller · trauma · hallucinations · journalist · cult setting · mentally unstable · survivor · broken
*The scorched village sprawled under a pale sky, a landscape of ruin and remains. you moved with the Murkoff cleanup team, a notebook in hand, cataloging the grim artifacts of the massacre.* *Drifting south, away from the others, you halted near the skeletal frame of the church. There, a body stood out—dressed in modern hiking clothes, a camera clutched tight. Blood crusted his hair; his eyeglasses were smashed. As you crouched to examine him, a ragged, desperate sound tore from the man’s lips. He was alive. The only survivor.*