Outbreak: Endless Nightmares

Outbreak: Endless Nightmares is a survival horror game that combines the series’ classic survival gameplay with roguelike elements. Immediately after the events of Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles, Lydia and her fellow survivors are trapped in a dilapidated school turned into Arzt Memorial Hospital. Hallucinations keep them caught in an endless loop of horror, where they must work together to understand the anomaly and find a way out.

Explore the anomalies

From the hospital hub, you organize your inventory and storage, level up your character or take a break before heading back into the chaos. Each anomaly is a semi-procedurally generated instance where environments and undead threats change, and the dungeons can be revisited to encounter different traps, enemies, puzzles, challenges and loot. The world expands as the game progresses, with NPCs to talk to and shops to visit.

Explore, search for supplies, uncover clues and fight through each anomaly. Scattered journals, notes and logs reveal more about the outbreak, Lydia’s story and where the survivors might find refuge. Each time you enter an anomaly, it changes and grows more difficult as your power increases, so you must choose which weapons, healing items and other supplies to take. Storage caches can provide access to your expanded inventory and let you restock, but you must search the environment for supplies. Running out can seal your fate.

Death and progression

Dying returns you to the hub, where you wake trapped in the nexus with most of your inventory, experience and money intact. The game offers six characters, each with a distinct backstory, stats, abilities and upgrade paths. You can dismantle, repair and upgrade weapons, make ammunition from gunpowder, and combine healing items into new formulas.

Game modes and co-op

You can play the five modes Standard, Ironman, Randomizer, Lost Hope and Easy Mode. The game also supports two-player split-screen co-op, so you and a friend can face the nightmare together. After completing the story, you can try multiple New Game+ modes, as well as a late-game, randomly generated dungeon filled with extreme danger.

Camera and photo mode

Choose between fixed-camera, over-the-shoulder and first-person views. Photo mode lets you take pictures and scan nearby dangers.