Your Opinion Wanted: OUTBRK vs. Storm Chasers Which Storm Chasing Experience Wins in 2025?

[WarLyric]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently having a hard time deciding between the two games and would appreciate some up to date opinions. I've seen previous discussions, but they're a bit dated in early access, things change fast so I'm looking for the best game at the moment.

One of the first things I noticed was the price difference between them. Additionally, it appears that OUTBRK requires online connectivity and has online checks, whereas Storm Chasers supports both offline and online play. I'm also curious if there's any plan to introduce an offline mode or modify the online requirements in future updates for OUTBRK.

I would really appreciate your feedback on which game you would recommend and why.

Thank you!

[Enter500]

Storm Chasers is a more arcade-y, smaller-scope game whereas OUTBRK is a fully fledged simulator centered around realism.

Storm Chasers is similar to Twisted and such on ROBLOX, in that smaller, randomly generated storms spawn on a smaller map.

For me OUTBRK wins, because the storm behavior is far more realistic - you can use IRL weather knowledge to chase in-game - than in Storm Chasers.
OUTBRK also has a larger development team who are very hard-working and extremely transparent about where the game is and where it's going. Every step and decision of and through development is public. I don't mean to knock on Storm Chasers, which has a single developer with a day job behind it, but OUTBRK has much more of a future.

[SkyDriver]

I agree with the above, plus Storm Chasers hasn't received any updates or fixes since Nov 2024. The developer recently mentioned they were creating a new map generating system, but 6 months is pretty clear they abandoned the project for a while, and "maybe" came back, but that signals to me an unreliable developer.

You're getting more with OUTBRK from the start, and the development is still very active.

[NickySams]

The only reason I like Storm Chasers over OUTBRK is that you can play as a tornado. I mean the actual chasing isn't bad, it's just not at the realism levels this game has. Sometimes you just wanna wreak havoc, and that's a fun way to do so heh.

[NickySams]

Another decent experience is Tornado: Research and Rescue. But neither Storm Chasers nor T: R&R have active updates often.

[HybridGrizzlyTrenchGun]

Originally posted by SkyDriver:

I agree with the above, plus Storm Chasers hasn't received any updates or fixes since Nov 2024. The developer recently mentioned they were creating a new map generating system, but 6 months is pretty clear they abandoned the project for a while, and "maybe" came back, but that signals to me an unreliable developer.

You're getting more with OUTBRK from the start, and the development is still very active.

It's like one person developing Storm Chasers I think, so "unreliable developer" is pretty harsh and disingenuous.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by NickySams:

Another decent experience is Tornado: Research and Rescue. But neither Storm Chasers nor T: R&R have active updates often.

as i recall, the t: R&R guy is getting his degree, so it's been really spotty.

[FrogRider]

I like both

[ghosty]

For me, it's about the tornados and that's what storm chasers does really well. The tornadoes and the damage they cause is done really well. And optimization too, an EF5 can hit downtown and my frames are rock solid. Outbreak has much better weather simulation and a bigger map. But, the tornados look terrible, and are very limited in size and shape.

[DennyFrontier]

Originally posted by WarLyric:

Hello everyone,

I'm currently having a hard time deciding between the two games and would appreciate some up to date opinions. I've seen previous discussions, but they're a bit dated in early access, things change fast so I'm looking for the best game at the moment.

One of the first things I noticed was the price difference between them. Additionally, it appears that OUTBRK requires online connectivity and has online checks, whereas Storm Chasers supports both offline and online play. I'm also curious if there's any plan to introduce an offline mode or modify the online requirements in future updates for OUTBRK.

I would really appreciate your feedback on which game you would recommend and why.

Thank you!

If I had to choose one id pick Storm Chasers any day of the week. Short sweet and too the point but a big positive is that the storms are not scripted. Everything is random. Also you dont need 4 people to play a private game... lmao