Outlast is a 2013 first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels. The game revolves around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate a remote psychiatric hospital named Mount Massive Asylum, located deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado. The downloadable content Outlast: Whistleblower centers on Waylon Park, the man who led Miles there in the first place. Wikipedia
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Doumbouya, René, Mohamed S. Benlamine, Aude Dufresne, and Claude Frasson. “Game scenes evaluation and player’s dominant emotion prediction.” In Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 14th International Conference, ITS 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 11–15, 2018, Proceedings 14, pp. 54-65. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Newell, Jonathan. “The act of witness: Outlast and videoludic body gothic.” Studies in Gothic Fiction 5, no. 1 (2016): 32-47.
Rodéhn, Cecilia. “Introducing Mad Studies and Mad Reading to Game Studies.” Game Studies 22, no. 1 (2022).
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Görgen, Arno, and Stefan H. Simond. “Autonomy, heteronomy, and representations of illness in digital games.” Games and Ethics: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Ethical Questions in Digital Game Cultures (2020): 239-256.
Monforton, Hazel E. ““There Are No Observers Here”: The Video Game Gaze in Outlast (2013) and Outlast: Whistleblower (2014).” In Examining the evolution of gaming and its impact on social, cultural, and political perspectives, pp. 54-72. IGI Global, 2016.