ALL spoilers are unmarked - only major plotline twists and endings have been marked. If you are planning on playing Look Outside blind, it is best to read this page after beating the game. You Have Been Warned.
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Look Outside is a Survival Horror Role-Playing Game created in RPG Maker by Francis Coulombe. Originally created for HawkZombie's Hawktober game jam on October 23, 2024, the game was developed further and then commercially released on Steam on March 21, 2025 with Devolver Digital as the publisher.
You are Sam, an average joe living in an average apartment somewhere in Montreal. You wake up one morning with an eerie glow coming from your curtained window. Your neighbor, Sybil, suggests that you look outside, but quickly clarifies that you shouldn't look outside. You go out to explore your apartment building, and discover that everything's gone to hell in a handbasket...
Something has come to Earth, and anything exposed to it turns into a horrifying monstrosity. The entire apartment has become a hellish prison crawling with its mutated inhabitants. In order to survive, you must traverse through the apartment and its dangers, collecting supplies, perhaps finding allies along the way, and survive for fifteen days. Sybil thinks it should blow over by then... or you can look deeper and try to solve the mysteries of the apartment. Perhaps even help out the Astronomers who are seeking to study and learn more about the event...
The gameplay is a survival horror spin on the typical RPG game. You start out as just Sam, and must traverse outside your apartment on your own. Party members exist, but will need to be recruited in specific ways. You will also need to manage your stats, which can have various effects on gameplay. Battles are tough, requiring some strategy. Weapons are Breakable Weapons, while healing items and money are limited. The only safe haven is your apartment, where you can cook, craft materials, play video games, and clean yourself.
The game has three difficulty modes. In Explorer Mode, you can save at any time, enemies and bosses are less powerful, and resources are more available. But in Survivor Mode, your apartment is the only place you can save your game, and only after you have encountered a certain amount of rooms or on a new day, meaning even the act of saving is something you must strategize around. In Cursed Mode, the save minimum is doubled, enemies hit harder, allies are more difficult to acquire, and there are different surprises awaiting players in the form of new and different enemies and events.
On October 28th 2025, the "Final Vision" update was released, bringing new monsters, areas, quests, bosses and endings to the game, as well as the aforementioned Cursed Mode.
Look Outside provides examples of:
- "A website that controls your mind if you spend too much time on it? It sounds like you've been trapped there for hours... you sure you'll be okay?
... ... Well, that wasn't too bad.
Have a good day!"
