He is Outside

He is Outside is a survival horror game in which you must escape your home while a serial killer tries to break in. You wake alone at night to a news report about a dangerous maniac responsible for multiple murders nearby. The power then cuts out, and you realize someone is outside. The house is too remote for you to escape on foot, so you must stay hidden and find another way out.

Escape the house

There are three possible escape routes, each requiring specific items randomly placed throughout the house. Some items are needed for multiple routes, so using one for an escape can make another route unavailable. The killer can also destroy essential objects, forcing you to adapt. Some items appear in rooms that must first be unlocked.

Evade the killer

The killer reacts to the environment. Loud noises and footsteps can alert him, and he notices doors or drawers being opened or closed. He also responds to your flashlight and can hear you breathing when you hide in a closet.

Footsteps provide directional and floor-based audio cues: they sound muffled when the killer is in another room and change when he is on a different floor.

Learn between runs

If the killer catches you, the run ends and you start again from the beginning with new randomized item locations. Each time he catches you, you wake as if from a nightmare, only for the events to begin again.

Your Escape Journal records discovered routes, the items they require, which items you have placed and which routes have failed. It also logs enemy behaviors after you witness them. What you learn may not help you during the current run, but the journal carries that knowledge into the next.