Outlast — Steam Gift

Outlast — a Steam gift with no weapons and no room for error

Outlast is a first-person survival horror released in 2013 by the independent studio Red Barrels. It throws out the usual action logic: you don't shoot, you don't swing a crowbar, you don't clear out corridors. You run, you hide and you try not to be found. That's exactly why Outlast is still remembered as one of the horrors that makes your hands shake.

On this page you grab Outlast as a Steam gift. The game is tied straight to your Steam account, lands in your library and stays there forever, just like any regular purchase.

What Outlast is about

You play as freelance journalist Miles Upshur. Acting on an anonymous tip, he drives out to the remote Mount Massive Asylum, run by the Murkoff corporation. Miles is chasing a scoop, but he walks into a place where the experiments on patients have spun out of control and the walls themselves seem to breathe fear.

Your only tool is a handheld camcorder. Through its lens you record what happens, and in total darkness you switch on night vision just to see anything at all. The catch: the battery drains and spare ones are scarce, so you constantly decide when to allow yourself light and when to move blind.

Why Outlast is genuinely terrifying

The power of Outlast is helplessness. You have no way to fight back: spot an enemy and you run, find a locker, dive under a bed, wait it out in the dark. That simple idea turns every corridor into a tense game of hide-and-seek where the price of a mistake is a sharp, ugly death.

The Mount Massive Asylum is presented almost cinematically: filthy wards, blood on the walls, scraps of records and patients, each broken in his own way. The game doesn't stretch over dozens of hours — it's dense, concentrated dread for an evening or two that keeps you on edge from the first scene to the closing credits.

What's in the gift

You get the base Outlast game for the Steam platform. That's the full story of Miles Upshur in the Mount Massive Asylum. Add-ons and the Whistleblower story DLC are not included in this gift — it's the base game only.

If this format of quiet, weaponless horror clicks with you, take a look at other horrors from our catalog too: the atmospheric underwater SOMA, the claustrophobic Amnesia: The Bunker and the grim The Evil Within.

How to receive the Steam gift

Outlast is delivered through our Steam bot. The flow is simple:

1. At checkout, provide a link to your Steam profile and pick your account region — the account region equals the gift region.

2. Our bot adds you as a friend on its own. You don't need to accept any separate trade request — the bot simply sends the game as a gift.

3. You confirm receiving the gift in Steam, and Outlast is added to your library. After that the bot removes itself from your friends.

You don't have to enable Steam Guard for this. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes after payment.

What to check in advance

To make the gift go smoothly, make sure Outlast isn't already in your library — Steam won't let anyone gift a game you already own. Also check that the region you entered matches the region of your Steam account. If your profile is private, it's best to open it during delivery so the bot can add you as a friend.

Like tying your nerves into knots? Then after Outlast it's worth checking out DOOM 64 too — for contrast, when you finally want a weapon in your hands.

🎮 Other games in the series

Nearby in the catalog: Outlast 2.