To turn off the lasers I needed to push a statue through a room of zombies onto a pressure plate. I ran into my first puzzle after a short time. I started strong, poppin’ zombie heads as I moved through dark hallways. You might want to carry your ammo press everywhere, but it takes up a slot that could be filled with healing items, because you’re going to get your ass handed directly to you often.Īfter pressing some pistol ammo, breaking down my knife into a repair kit, and repairing my pistol, it was go time. Outbreak: Endless Nightmares is big on managing your items. You can also take broken guns – like the pistol that betrayed me- and break them down into repair kits for your other guns. There is an ammo press a la Resident Evil 3 that allows you to make your own ammo out of gunpowder you can find laying around. The upside to the limited inventory space is a generous smattering of storage boxes throughout the hub and the anomalies.Īfter a few trips to the nearest storage box, I realized that there was way more to preparation than getting a gun and a healing herb. Collecting items can be a bit difficult, because in keeping with old school survival horror tradition, inventory space is limited. For my third attempt, I decided to be smart. It doesn’t care that you forgot to grab a healing herb. Outbreak: Endless Nightmares is unforgiving. In a lot of rogue-lites and dungeon crawlers, it’s wise to plan out your runs. It requires a certain amount of preparation. I pulled out my damaged knife, and was unceremoniously eaten. I then readied my aim at the next undead monstrosity, only to get a message that my gun was broken. On my second run into the anomaly, I avenged my death by shooting down the first zombie. I found an old pistol and a damaged knife. Thrown back into the hub, I began my search for anything to protect myself. The first zombie I came across ripped me to shreds, and then I’m assuming she went and laughed with her friends about the completely unprepared adventurer that wandered into the anomaly. I entered the anomaly with no way to defend myself. I skipped over those in pursuit of finding my first anomaly. The hospital is a hub world, and is filled with weapons, healing, and crafting items. Once you find an anomaly in the hospital, you’re free to enter at any time. They’ll direct you towards “anomalies” which are this games dungeons. They’ll offer cryptic and not-so-cryptic advice about what to do in the game. The residents these days are floating specters. Abandoned in the sense that there are no people there. You start in the courtyard of an abandoned hospital. A hybrid rogue-lite dungeon crawler affair, Outbreak: Endless Nightmares didn’t grab me at first. While I have tested the waters of all of the Outbreak games at this point, I want to focus on the newest entry: Outbreak: Endless Nightmares. After that subtle jab, he graciously sent me a virtual gift basket of Outbreak titles. He assured me that it was completely normal to have not played survival horror. In talking with Wolbach, I was the first to admit that I had never played an Outbreak game. I got an opportunity for an interview with Outbreak: Endless Nightmares creator Evan Wolbach recently ( which you can read here), and I jumped at the chance. I had a few of them on my Steam wishlist, but it was something I would get around to – like watching The Wire. I was unfamiliar with the Outbreak series. Outbreak: Endless Nightmares Review – Dungeon Crawler Is What I Call This Legless Zombieĭeveloped and published by Dead Drop StudiosĪvailable on PC, PS5, PS4, XB1, XBSX, Nintendo Switch
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