This is the type of game where, in 6 years time, Pyrocynical is going to get his grubby filthy paws on it and make a 7 hour long retrospective about how this game is secretly a drug-induced schizophrenic hallucination.
Don't let him get to it before you.
>be me, late 20s loser neet
>wake up early at 5:57, ready for another big day
>say good morning to the nice lady living in my walls
>cook up a hearty breakfast of frozen pizza topped with meat taken from the walking tumor who used to be my downstairs neighbor
>find a roach in my kitchen, ignore it because I have bigger things to worry about
>head out to run some errands with my crack team of 2 unrelated 8-year-olds and a bloodsucking rat the size of a labrador retriever
>lost an arm yesterday so I let the rat use my shotgun
>swing by my landlord’s apartment to pay the rent before doing anything too crazy
>landlord shoots me point blank in the chest and then turns into a crab made out of human hands
>nope.avi
>stumble back upstairs, bleeding out, barely make it home
>eat some leftover pizza
>play video games for 2 hours
>answer the door for a guy who winds up being a giant spider
>play video games for 4 more hours
>make spaghetti for the rat because I don’t have enough blood left to feed her with
>find another roach in my kitchen
>it gives me $10
>brush my teeth, shower, and go to bed
just a normal day in Montreal
I was minding my own business, sipping emotional apathy, when a friend sneak-attacked me with this game like some benevolent nostalgia dispenser. Didn’t even see it coming. One minute I’m scrolling some NSFW Reddit, the next I’m being lovingly body-slammed by a pixelated thingum straight outta Cronenberg’s weirdest acid trip.
And listen—it booped my dopamine receptors directly. No foreplay. Just wham, EarthBound-inspired combat, gross-out visuals that squelch in just the right way, and the tastiest retro-horror-inspired soundtrack I think I've ever encountered. There’s weird humor. There’s body horror. There’s a talking meat thing (probably). I don’t know. It’s gross and beautiful. Like a Flesh-Horror Construct in a Ball Gown Made of Stolen Skin and Glitter.
The secrets are NASTY. Miss a side path? That could’ve been a whole subplot. That weird NPC? Literal god-tier lore dump if you talk to them 5 times at 3 AM during a blood moon. This game doesn’t just reward curiosity—it gives you a kiss on the forehead for being a nosy little freak. You will miss things. You must go back. It’s the kind of game that crawls into your brain and lays eggs labeled “New Game.”
Also—don’t not be friendly. The game softly but firmly reminds us that shrugging off connection doesn’t protect you. It just hurts differently. It’s like the devs looked into my soul and said, “Being afraid of being hurt is still being hurt, babe.”
Minor bugs? Sure. They exist. But so do patches, and the developer’s actively fixing them and adding content. And in this economy?? That’s love, baby. That’s art. That’s another playthrough.
My love for games was rekindled a couple years ago, but this is why I stayed. To be weird. To be moved. To get booped.
I played it a ton, enjoyed it - and then I had a scripted event where I had to say no three times. Instead I misclicked when the dialogue options repeated and it ended with me dying instantly because I walked into a spore colony. Then I went back to the game the next day and the patch nerfed my abilities completely. Forget it, I don't want to see the end anymore.
Wake up. Feel a strange urge to look outside but decide against it. Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror, I look horrible. Decide to brush my teeth to make myself feel a little better. Leave my apartment and walk around. I find my neighbor, he's all messed up and acting weird. I beat him to death and leave. I go back to my apartment and turn on my computer. I find out that Look Outside finally released so I buy it. Wake up. Feel a strange urge to look outside but decide against it. Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror, I look horrible. Decide to brush my teeth to to make myself feel better. Leave my apartment and walk around. I find my neighbor, he's all messed up and acting weird. I beat him to death and leave. I return to my apartment and save my game.
Gave this game a shot wanted to like it, but no monster HP bars, Randomness of monster encounters + not being able to escape is RNG and losing progress when you die to it just sucks ass. Maybe if they change it later ill pick it back up. Concept was pretty cool and liked the older style RPG UI.
I had to stop playing once I got to the ground floor. By that point I had experienced one looping labyrinth that was impressively NOT fun to play, and having to deal with a second looping labyrinth somehow made it even less fun. The person that thought a terrible area to explore must be repeated again should be studied in a lab. It really is truly spectacular that this somehow came into creation, and even more amazing that a human being not only conjured up the idea from the wonderful wellspring of thought in their corrupt mind but decided to duplicate it! WOW! You get to a point when you are playing through a difficult portion of a videogame, not so much due to the engineered difficulty but more so due to the lack of refinement in certain aspects, where you have to really consider the value of the effort you are putting into it. The game has these areas that quite simply do not respect your time. Watch a youtube video instead of playing.
I was emotionally scarred from playing with Benjamin, and I wouldn't change a thing.
Edit:
I now die over and over just opening a door while exploring. I always forget which door. Insta-death opening a door isn't fun. Love this game, but 4 hours has been repeating the same death at the same door with the same dumbass eye.
the game is literally called "look outside"
*you look outside*
*die*
10/10 game, i'll look outside again.
also it feels like the game is telling you to touch some grass.....
nah, it must be my imagination.
Look Outside is a great analog horror game that has amazing depth and intrigue. I was doing well and thoroughly enthralled until the landlord boss fight,
Maybe I'm just bad at the game, but I spent two hours scouring every arena and killing every mob searching for the path forward. I exhausted every path and item with zero reward or indication of "being on the right track." I was overflowing with EXP and money but could not find my way to the final boss or back to Sybil to save my progress. So after my billionth encounter with a hand grenade, my last party member died and I lost three hours of progress.
I will be uninstalling this game and will not recommend it to my friends.
During the game, I managed to become friends with a streamer, a maniac, two punks, a rat pup, and some cockroaches — all just to AVOID LOOKING OUTSIDE.
I'm at a point in the game where I'm basically softlocked. Not high enough level to beat the hordes of enemies the game throws at you and clearly expects you to defeat (since running from an encounter during the first turn has basically no chance of succeeding). The mechanics seem to hint that you're supposed to get companions at some point, but I have no idea how much longer I need to play to see them. This seems like the kind of game that just exists to waste your time.
Me and the janitor became the proud fathers of three adopted children. We like to go shopping, have family dinner, kill god, and play video games together. We've been teaching the kids responsibility and caring by getting a pet landmine and a potted flesh plant. 10/10 one of the best cozy life sims on Steam.
It's really annoying that no matter how high my level is, every fight is a fight to the death (which is fair if you're a hardcore player), but I want to have fun playing games, which is why i chose easy mode, i still get stomped by the plant creatures even though im level 10 and have full patchwork set (I know some people will say well there's this set thats better, bla bla bla) if i put the game on easy, it should be ... EASY. The next thing is its just unclear where I'm supposed to go so i just went on a rampage clearing every floor i can at this point, my floor is completely clear except my next door neighbor and the janitor closet since i cant open those, I know I need to find the disks to open the doors, but where the F are they? I have pluto disk and another disk with a negative image that i made from the stargazers room and then lyles room after killing him too but they don't seem to open any of the doors that have disc slots. I get that potentially one of the rooms with the flesh covering probably has a disc to help me move forward, but I can't find ingredients to make more herbicide which just makes me sit in my room and wait for RNG to let the doctor come to sell some ingredients, which brings me to the final point, i like not knowing what you will get when crafting, but once it says "New recipe learned" there at least should be a list of those recipes listed so you can see what ingredients you're missing, instead of constantly going through all the combinations to see which one is the one you need. One final small thing, which applies to the crafting and the gaming console, when I cancel making an item it closes the menu making me open the crafting again, small thing but would be more efficient if it just takes you back to the main crafting menu. For the gaming, there should be a duration you can choose to play, I understand that people come knocking, but make it so it interrupts that process, you can choose to go to the door then come back and continue after that interaction, or ignore the door, rather than the guy shutting everything down going through all the animations after 2 hours, which may be the intended mechanism making it so you only do it once per day, but that ties back to the first point which is, even at a higher level I feel weak AF so I spend half the day leveling up from games and to get special moves that are crucial for surviving, the nitro special and combat medic specifically, i gave up on the game when i was just walking around hoping to randomly find that one ingredient to make herbicide and try my luck with another door. In all honesty, the game itself has alot of promise, I love the setting and lore but its just these kind of things that deter me from continuing, it seems that games are catering just to people who dedicate their entire lives to sitting in their room "getting gud" at games, whereas I prefer playing more casually and most importantly to genuinely have fun. I really try my best to figure things out myself, but theres just too much to go through to get there and once I have to google what to do in a game, it's no longer a game but a chore.
At this point in time, I can't recommend the game.
The game seems fantastic and has a lot of promise but is riddled with bugs and genuine issues that stop me from enjoying it.
I've been barred from recruiting an early party member twice now. I restarted the game in order to fix the issue but it happened again. Third try he joined my party no issue, despite me doing nothing different.
The saving system is absolutely horrible aswell. Exploration is punished as if you die you are sent back to the last time you saved in your room. Not terrible, but when you have to spend 7 minutes round trip to run back and save just because you don't want to repeat 3 combats it gets really annoying. I've lost 15+ minutes of progress multiple times because I ran into a drastically more difficult encounter than others in the area.
Fix the game and it's great.
This is the type of game where, in 6 years time, Pyrocynical is going to get his grubby filthy paws on it and make a 7 hour long retrospective about how this game is secretly a drug-induced schizophrenic hallucination.
Don't let him get to it before you.
>be me, late 20s loser neet
>wake up early at 5:57, ready for another big day
>say good morning to the nice lady living in my walls
>cook up a hearty breakfast of frozen pizza topped with meat taken from the walking tumor who used to be my downstairs neighbor
>find a roach in my kitchen, ignore it because I have bigger things to worry about
>head out to run some errands with my crack team of 2 unrelated 8-year-olds and a bloodsucking rat the size of a labrador retriever
>lost an arm yesterday so I let the rat use my shotgun
>swing by my landlord’s apartment to pay the rent before doing anything too crazy
>landlord shoots me point blank in the chest and then turns into a crab made out of human hands
>nope.avi
>stumble back upstairs, bleeding out, barely make it home
>eat some leftover pizza
>play video games for 2 hours
>answer the door for a guy who winds up being a giant spider
>play video games for 4 more hours
>make spaghetti for the rat because I don’t have enough blood left to feed her with
>find another roach in my kitchen
>it gives me $10
>brush my teeth, shower, and go to bed
just a normal day in Montreal
I was minding my own business, sipping emotional apathy, when a friend sneak-attacked me with this game like some benevolent nostalgia dispenser. Didn’t even see it coming. One minute I’m scrolling some NSFW Reddit, the next I’m being lovingly body-slammed by a pixelated thingum straight outta Cronenberg’s weirdest acid trip.
And listen—it booped my dopamine receptors directly. No foreplay. Just wham, EarthBound-inspired combat, gross-out visuals that squelch in just the right way, and the tastiest retro-horror-inspired soundtrack I think I've ever encountered. There’s weird humor. There’s body horror. There’s a talking meat thing (probably). I don’t know. It’s gross and beautiful. Like a Flesh-Horror Construct in a Ball Gown Made of Stolen Skin and Glitter.
The secrets are NASTY. Miss a side path? That could’ve been a whole subplot. That weird NPC? Literal god-tier lore dump if you talk to them 5 times at 3 AM during a blood moon. This game doesn’t just reward curiosity—it gives you a kiss on the forehead for being a nosy little freak. You will miss things. You must go back. It’s the kind of game that crawls into your brain and lays eggs labeled “New Game.”
Also—don’t not be friendly. The game softly but firmly reminds us that shrugging off connection doesn’t protect you. It just hurts differently. It’s like the devs looked into my soul and said, “Being afraid of being hurt is still being hurt, babe.”
Minor bugs? Sure. They exist. But so do patches, and the developer’s actively fixing them and adding content. And in this economy?? That’s love, baby. That’s art. That’s another playthrough.
My love for games was rekindled a couple years ago, but this is why I stayed. To be weird. To be moved. To get booped.
I played it a ton, enjoyed it - and then I had a scripted event where I had to say no three times. Instead I misclicked when the dialogue options repeated and it ended with me dying instantly because I walked into a spore colony. Then I went back to the game the next day and the patch nerfed my abilities completely. Forget it, I don't want to see the end anymore.
Wake up. Feel a strange urge to look outside but decide against it. Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror, I look horrible. Decide to brush my teeth to make myself feel a little better. Leave my apartment and walk around. I find my neighbor, he's all messed up and acting weird. I beat him to death and leave. I go back to my apartment and turn on my computer. I find out that Look Outside finally released so I buy it. Wake up. Feel a strange urge to look outside but decide against it. Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror, I look horrible. Decide to brush my teeth to to make myself feel better. Leave my apartment and walk around. I find my neighbor, he's all messed up and acting weird. I beat him to death and leave. I return to my apartment and save my game.
Gave this game a shot wanted to like it, but no monster HP bars, Randomness of monster encounters + not being able to escape is RNG and losing progress when you die to it just sucks ass. Maybe if they change it later ill pick it back up. Concept was pretty cool and liked the older style RPG UI.
I had to stop playing once I got to the ground floor. By that point I had experienced one looping labyrinth that was impressively NOT fun to play, and having to deal with a second looping labyrinth somehow made it even less fun. The person that thought a terrible area to explore must be repeated again should be studied in a lab. It really is truly spectacular that this somehow came into creation, and even more amazing that a human being not only conjured up the idea from the wonderful wellspring of thought in their corrupt mind but decided to duplicate it! WOW! You get to a point when you are playing through a difficult portion of a videogame, not so much due to the engineered difficulty but more so due to the lack of refinement in certain aspects, where you have to really consider the value of the effort you are putting into it. The game has these areas that quite simply do not respect your time. Watch a youtube video instead of playing.
I was emotionally scarred from playing with Benjamin, and I wouldn't change a thing.
Edit:
I now die over and over just opening a door while exploring. I always forget which door. Insta-death opening a door isn't fun. Love this game, but 4 hours has been repeating the same death at the same door with the same dumbass eye.
the game is literally called "look outside"
*you look outside*
*die*
10/10 game, i'll look outside again.
also it feels like the game is telling you to touch some grass.....
nah, it must be my imagination.
Look Outside is a great analog horror game that has amazing depth and intrigue. I was doing well and thoroughly enthralled until the landlord boss fight,
Maybe I'm just bad at the game, but I spent two hours scouring every arena and killing every mob searching for the path forward. I exhausted every path and item with zero reward or indication of "being on the right track." I was overflowing with EXP and money but could not find my way to the final boss or back to Sybil to save my progress. So after my billionth encounter with a hand grenade, my last party member died and I lost three hours of progress.
I will be uninstalling this game and will not recommend it to my friends.
During the game, I managed to become friends with a streamer, a maniac, two punks, a rat pup, and some cockroaches — all just to AVOID LOOKING OUTSIDE.
I'm at a point in the game where I'm basically softlocked. Not high enough level to beat the hordes of enemies the game throws at you and clearly expects you to defeat (since running from an encounter during the first turn has basically no chance of succeeding). The mechanics seem to hint that you're supposed to get companions at some point, but I have no idea how much longer I need to play to see them. This seems like the kind of game that just exists to waste your time.
Me and the janitor became the proud fathers of three adopted children. We like to go shopping, have family dinner, kill god, and play video games together. We've been teaching the kids responsibility and caring by getting a pet landmine and a potted flesh plant. 10/10 one of the best cozy life sims on Steam.
It's really annoying that no matter how high my level is, every fight is a fight to the death (which is fair if you're a hardcore player), but I want to have fun playing games, which is why i chose easy mode, i still get stomped by the plant creatures even though im level 10 and have full patchwork set (I know some people will say well there's this set thats better, bla bla bla) if i put the game on easy, it should be ... EASY. The next thing is its just unclear where I'm supposed to go so i just went on a rampage clearing every floor i can at this point, my floor is completely clear except my next door neighbor and the janitor closet since i cant open those, I know I need to find the disks to open the doors, but where the F are they? I have pluto disk and another disk with a negative image that i made from the stargazers room and then lyles room after killing him too but they don't seem to open any of the doors that have disc slots. I get that potentially one of the rooms with the flesh covering probably has a disc to help me move forward, but I can't find ingredients to make more herbicide which just makes me sit in my room and wait for RNG to let the doctor come to sell some ingredients, which brings me to the final point, i like not knowing what you will get when crafting, but once it says "New recipe learned" there at least should be a list of those recipes listed so you can see what ingredients you're missing, instead of constantly going through all the combinations to see which one is the one you need. One final small thing, which applies to the crafting and the gaming console, when I cancel making an item it closes the menu making me open the crafting again, small thing but would be more efficient if it just takes you back to the main crafting menu. For the gaming, there should be a duration you can choose to play, I understand that people come knocking, but make it so it interrupts that process, you can choose to go to the door then come back and continue after that interaction, or ignore the door, rather than the guy shutting everything down going through all the animations after 2 hours, which may be the intended mechanism making it so you only do it once per day, but that ties back to the first point which is, even at a higher level I feel weak AF so I spend half the day leveling up from games and to get special moves that are crucial for surviving, the nitro special and combat medic specifically, i gave up on the game when i was just walking around hoping to randomly find that one ingredient to make herbicide and try my luck with another door. In all honesty, the game itself has alot of promise, I love the setting and lore but its just these kind of things that deter me from continuing, it seems that games are catering just to people who dedicate their entire lives to sitting in their room "getting gud" at games, whereas I prefer playing more casually and most importantly to genuinely have fun. I really try my best to figure things out myself, but theres just too much to go through to get there and once I have to google what to do in a game, it's no longer a game but a chore.
At this point in time, I can't recommend the game.
The game seems fantastic and has a lot of promise but is riddled with bugs and genuine issues that stop me from enjoying it.
I've been barred from recruiting an early party member twice now. I restarted the game in order to fix the issue but it happened again. Third try he joined my party no issue, despite me doing nothing different.
The saving system is absolutely horrible aswell. Exploration is punished as if you die you are sent back to the last time you saved in your room. Not terrible, but when you have to spend 7 minutes round trip to run back and save just because you don't want to repeat 3 combats it gets really annoying. I've lost 15+ minutes of progress multiple times because I ran into a drastically more difficult encounter than others in the area.
Fix the game and it's great.
