Note: This review has been written assuming that you have completed the main campaign in Outlast. There may be spoilers for the main game ahead. Read at your own discretion. There are no spoilers for the DLC.

In the Whistleblower DLC, you will play as Waylon Park, the software engineer that authored the first document that you stumble upon in Outlast. This added content is a prequel that begins prior to the events in the base game, and then stretches throughout; eventually overlapping with the time period where you killed the abominable Dr. Trager. Set out to expose the Murkoff Corporation for what they really are, a sick and deranged business ensemble, we find out that Waylon was the one who sent the anonymous tip to Miles.

Caught on his actions just moments after hitting the send button, Waylon is forced into Murkoff's grotesque hypnotherapy program as a punishment for his misdeed of trying to expose the Corporation for their true intentions. It is now hereby your ultimate objective to escape Mount Massive Asylum alive, and to see your wife Lisa again. While you will traverse many of the same areas that Miles did, there are also new slaughter chambers for the exploring. Of course, along with fresh places come the new, absurd faces of evil and insanity that you must survive encountering. If you thought the villains in Outlast's main campaign were deranged, you really haven't seen anything yet.

An insatiable cannibal and a man hellbent on making you his forced gender reassigned queen are your primary adversaries, as well as an old favorite returns to haunt your nightmares. As you're already familiar with the gameplay from the base game, I won't go in to as much detail here; it's more of the same stealth and chase sequences, with more of a focus on being chased. What really makes the Whistleblower DLC stand out though, is the way that Red Barrel pushed the envelope even further with not only how much nudity that you see (including your own in-game genitals), but how over-the-top crazy these bad guys are. Not to mention the gratifyingly lavish amounts of blood. In the primary campaign, the only foe that you really got up close and personal with was Dr. Trager, but the two new baddies make him seem like he was completely normal; you really become intimate with both of them.

Of course, there are new notes and documents to collect here; most of the documents will explain your new 'friends' to you, while the notes are your lovelorn thoughts to Lisa, your wife. They are still very much worth collecting and reading, as they cause you to get a deeper idea of the crazies that are after you, and the horrors that the Murkoff Corporation have put them through, as well as the notes help you to get more emotionally attached to Waylon. Even though you never overlap directly with Miles, it eventually seems like you're always just a few steps behind him.

Whereas Outlast itself lasts between 5-6 hours, the Whistleblower DLC clocks in between 2-3. For the asking price of $9.99 CAD, that isn't bad considering the blood-soaked amount of content that you end up getting. If this is a taste of what is to come with Outlast 2, then I cannot wait to see how Red Barrel blaze the trail of the survival horror genre. This DLC is worth it to experience the frighteningly insane enemies alone, much less the massive, extra amounts of blood and gore that have been included. I would go as far to say that this DLC is scarier than the main campaign. This, my readers, is DLC done right, and it's an absolute must buy.

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[b]Note: This review has been written assuming that you have completed the main campaign in Outlast. There may be spoilers for the main game ahead. Read at your own discretion. There are no spoilers for the DLC.[/b] In the Whistleblower DLC, you will play as Waylon Park, the software engineer that authored the first document that you stumble upon in Outlast. This added content is a prequel that begins prior to the events in the base game, and then stretches throughout; eventually overlapping with the time period where you killed the abominable Dr. Trager. Set out to expose the Murkoff Corporation for what they really are, a sick and deranged business ensemble, we find out that Waylon was the one who sent the anonymous tip to Miles. Caught on his actions just moments after hitting the send button, Waylon is forced into Murkoff's grotesque hypnotherapy program as a punishment for his misdeed of trying to expose the Corporation for their true intentions. It is now hereby your ultimate objective to escape Mount Massive Asylum alive, and to see your wife Lisa again. While you will traverse many of the same areas that Miles did, there are also new slaughter chambers for the exploring. Of course, along with fresh places come the new, absurd faces of evil and insanity that you must survive encountering. If you thought the villains in Outlast's main campaign were deranged, you really haven't seen anything yet. An insatiable cannibal and a man hellbent on making you his forced gender reassigned queen are your primary adversaries, as well as an old favorite returns to haunt your nightmares. As you're already familiar with the gameplay from the base game, I won't go in to as much detail here; it's more of the same stealth and chase sequences, with more of a focus on being chased. What really makes the Whistleblower DLC stand out though, is the way that Red Barrel pushed the envelope even further with not only how much nudity that you see (including your own in-game genitals), but how over-the-top crazy these bad guys are. Not to mention the gratifyingly lavish amounts of blood. In the primary campaign, the only foe that you really got up close and personal with was Dr. Trager, but the two new baddies make him seem like he was completely normal; you really become intimate with both of them. Of course, there are new notes and documents to collect here; most of the documents will explain your new 'friends' to you, while the notes are your lovelorn thoughts to Lisa, your wife. They are still very much worth collecting and reading, as they cause you to get a deeper idea of the crazies that are after you, and the horrors that the Murkoff Corporation have put them through, as well as the notes help you to get more emotionally attached to Waylon. Even though you never overlap directly with Miles, it eventually seems like you're always just a few steps behind him. Whereas Outlast itself lasts between 5-6 hours, the Whistleblower DLC clocks in between 2-3. For the asking price of $9.99 CAD, that isn't bad considering the blood-soaked amount of content that you end up getting. If this is a taste of what is to come with Outlast 2, then I cannot wait to see how Red Barrel blaze the trail of the survival horror genre. This DLC is worth it to experience the frighteningly insane enemies alone, much less the massive, extra amounts of blood and gore that have been included. I would go as far to say that this DLC is scarier than the main campaign. This, my readers, is DLC done right, and it's an absolute must buy. [h1]Rating: [b]5.0/5.0[/b] - An astonishing achievement, this game must be played.[/h1] The Horror Network [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28221963/]Curator[/url] | [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thehorrornetwork]Group[/url] Click for Gore [h1]Related Reviews:[/h1] [b]Review for Outlast: [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/THNEmbalmer/recommended/238320]Here[/url] Review for Outlast 2: [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/THNEmbalmer/recommended/414700]Here[/url][/b]