MONTRÉAL, Québec — May 19th, 2026 — The cameras are still rolling, the signal is still poisoned, and Murkoff is not finished with its audience. Following the launch of Season 6: Project Judas, which introduced Reagents to the Television Studio where the Kress Twins’ manufactured political idol Bob Vanier, The Outlast Trials returns with Season 6.1: Prime Time, a new update that turns the dial even further toward fear, worship, contradiction, and control.
PRIME TIME: NEW PRIME ROULETTE
Available today, the Prime Time Limited-Time Event prepares Reagents for a future dominated by clashing cults of personality and competing fundamentalist ideals. During the event, players will face a rotating onslaught of Prime Assets, destroy defective televisions for additional rewards, unlock new limited-time cosmetics, and endure two new MK-Challenges designed to test faith, obedience, and survival instinct under Murkoff’s brightest lights.
MK-CHALLENGE: WIN THE TRUTH
You are the blind observer who consumes screen-fed ignorance and swells with the genius of idiot artifice. Regurgitate the knowledge that brings suffering to the wise, win the game which only punishes the defeated, and we will let you out.
MK-CHALLENGE: INCINERATE THE RELIC
You are the heretic, and you are the zealot. Relics are the proof of an impossible gospel, the belief that makes whole the deservedly slaughtered lamb. Pay your way into heaven, incinerate the relic, and we will let you out.
NEW ROUTINE THERAPIES
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CLASSIFIED - Multiple secret variators have been added to your therapy. Adapt or die.
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Taking place June 16th to June 30th
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MIRROR - The Trial perspective is altered to mislead Reagents.
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Taking place June 30th to July 14th
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By popular demand, Murkoff is extending each Routine Therapy to two weeks, giving Reagents more time to adapt or fail under these conditions.
The full patch notes can be found here.
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The Outlast Trials is the third installment in Red Barrels’ critically acclaimed psychological horror series. In 4-player co-op, complete escape room-style puzzles while avoiding the twisted victims of Murkoff’s experiments using a combination of stealth, speed, and teamwork. In a unique blend of survival horror and online escape room, The Outlast Trials challenges players with Aperture Science-style tests that Jigsaw himself would shudder at. Complete Trials, return to your cell, upgrade your therapies, and steel your nerves to face horrors beyond your imagination.
Set in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited to test advanced methods of mind control in their nightmare facility. Crush your morals and test your sanity on the path to rebirth as one of Murkoff’s Reagents while discovering the secret documents littered throughout the facility.
Red Barrels
Red Barrels is the studio behind the immersive indie horror series Outlast, a series that has terrified over 50 million players worldwide. Based in Montréal, Red Barrel’s mission is to create unforgettable experiences that leave the player’s blood running cold. Red Barrels was founded by Philippe Morin (Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Assassin’s Creed, and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune), David Chateauneuf (Lead level designer: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Assassin’s Creed, and Splinter Cell: Conviction), and Hugo Dallaire (Art Director: Splinter Cell and Army of Two).
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