Blake wants to know what happened to her, but she doesn't want to talk about it. The two flee, but after a short time Lynn doubles over from stomach pain. After some searching, he finds Lynn, who was kidnapped by the sect. The village is irradiated with microwave radiation from the aforementioned industrial complex via relay antennas in order to test psychological weapons on the residents. As the game progresses, Blake learns that the villagers' madness can be traced back to experiments by the Murkoff Corporation. In his search for Lynn, he repeatedly found letters and other documents that on the one hand confirm the residents' religious madness, but on the other hand also point to their extreme lust. In the village, Blake has to hide from the residents who want to kill him. While the sect tries to fight the anti-Christian and thus prevent the end of the world, the apocalypse, the heretics try to bring about the end of the world. There is also a group of apostates under a man named Val, who are called heretics. Knoth is convinced that the village was built on a portal into hell. The leader of this sect is Sullivan Knoth, called "Papa" by his followers. On his search for Lynn, Blake arrives in the village of Temple Gate, where a sect, completely isolated from society, awaits the end of the world. Blake wakes up sometime after dark and finds that Lynn has disappeared. To this end, they are in the Supai region, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, in search of a heavy industrial complex, when a high concentration of mercury was discovered in the dead woman's blood when a flash of light suddenly appears, causing the helicopter to crash brings. Blake Langermann, journalist and cameraman, is trying to solve a mysterious murder case of a pregnant stranger called Jane Doe together with his wife Lynn. The plot of the game is largely based on the Jonestown massacre in 1978, with the characters being fictitious. In March 2018, a version of Outlast 2 was released for the Nintendo Switch.
At the same time, according to publisher Red Barrels, the patch also restored game elements that had to be removed from the game at the time of publication in order to avoid the commercially harmful “Adults Only” release.
With the patch released in March 2018, a story mode was added to the main game, which allows the player to concentrate more on the events of the plot thanks to a reduced level of difficulty. Developer Red Barrels announced, however, that there should only be one version of Outlast 2 worldwide. The German version was released by the USK from the age of 18 and should appear uncut. Outlast 2 only received R18 + approval from the Australian Classification Board with cuts. In Australia, the game was initially denied the age rating.
Interactive took over the distribution of the shop version, the PC version of Outlast 2 is only available as a download. At the same time, Outlast Trinity should be released for the consoles, which contains all three Outlast parts. Due to development complications, the release date of Outlast 2 has been postponed to the first quarter of 2017 and will be released on Apfor Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In 2014 the DLC Outlast: Whistleblower was released for the first Outlast part.
The first game in the series, Outlast, was released in 2013, after which a sequel for the fall of 2016 was announced shortly afterwards.