10 Great Video Games You'll Never Play Again (And Why)

5. Outlast

What It Is: An indie first-person horror game released in 2013, which terrified all but the staunchest psychopaths and was a popular subject for many shriek-filled Let's Play videos. It puts you in the role of a reporter who investigates the strange goings-on at an old mental asylum. Why It's Great: Outlast is part of the wave of 'helpless horror' games that culminated in the release of AAA survival horror hit, Alien: Isolation. You don't have any weapons in the game, with your most important bit of kit being your night-vision camera, which you're always horrifyingly aware has a limited battery supply. This camera is both a great survival tool and a means of building up suspense, as witnessing the ghoulish, murderous patients of the asylum through night-vision is almost as horrifying as stumbling around in the dark. The game's main goal is to build up suspense, then to be teeth-grittingly terrifying as you get spotted and have to flee your pursuers. It successfully achieves this thanks in large part to the camera, which gives Outlast the feel of a found-footage horror movie. Why You'll Never Play It Again: For all its excellent presentation and nail-biting gameplay, Outlast has one distinct disadvantage. Unlike games like Amnesia, Alien: Isolation and the P.T. demo (R.I.P), it doesn't use random enemy generation. So should you replay a sequence or the whole game, enemy positions will be the same each time. This means that the fear factor (i.e. the very reason you play the game) diminishes should you play it again, which sadly means that the game's longevity doesn't, er, outlast its first playthrough.