GameOver: Outcry Review

Outcry (also known as Sublustrum) is the first adventure from Russian developer Phantomery Interactive. In it, your brother invites you to visit him at his apartment, but when you get there you discover that he’s gone missing. Moreover, after reading some of his research journals, you learn that recently your brother had built some sort of machine, and that supposedly the machine can separate the mind from the body and allow a person to explore strange lands. Some drugs are involved in the process, and so you don’t really know if your brother was onto something or if he was simply hallucinating, but you decide to find out.

Well, obviously, the machine actually works, and so you spend a lot of time in the adventure exploring unusual locations. The locations start out making some sense — for example, the first place you visit is an alternate version of your brother’s apartment — but then they just sort of get random and bizarre, and you’re not given any sort of reasoning about why they exist or what you’re supposed to be doing when you get there, which makes the game confusing and frustrating.