
- 73/100
- Metacritic4 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 84/100
- Player reviews
- 80% positive35 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$9.99
Where to get it

2023 · Action-adventure · Adventure
Outer Terror
An all-new hyper Minimalist stylized gameplay loop with advanced rogue-lite elements. Each player (1 or 2 players Co-Op) chooses from 10 survivors with various weapons and skills to battle against unending waves of otherworldly creatures.
- Released
- 20 April 2023
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- Action-adventureAdventureIndieShooterStrategy
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionHorrorSurvival
- Age ratings
- GRAC 12+USK 16ESRB TPEGI 16CLASS_IND 12ACB M
- Languages
- Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 6hmain story8hwith extras15hcompletionist
About
Outer Terror is a roguelike, bullet hell video game developed by Salt & Pixel and published by VoxPop Games.
The game is structured as a pulp-horror anthology series, where each level is its own self-contained comic book styled story. It features both online and offline co-op play.
›Story
A cosmic evil known only as, The Crying God, has enveloped Earth's Moon.
Releasing fungal growth with every waxing and waning.
This is known as “Gray Death”, the fungus fuses man and beast, living and undead, into horrible otherworldly abominations.
Here we follow the remnants of earth’s survivors across the globe, as they STRIVE to survive one more night...
Enter Beyond the Gray Death!
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Outer Terror's core gameplay has been described as a "bullet hell with roguelite elements."
The player takes control of an automatically attacking character and is set against waves of continuously spawning enemies. Players can survive the waves for a set period of time or complete quests for alternate win conditions. The game shares various similarities to the 2003 game, Crimsonland
Development
Outer Terror was designed as a spiritual successor to one of Salt & Pixel's earlier games, "Gray Death", which was previously published on the VoxPop Games platform in 2021.
Outer Terror was published by VoxPop Games, and it was the first original game to make use of VoxPop's middleware tools, and the first to be funded through VoxPop's Indie Fund. The version of the game available on the VoxPop Games' store will contain exclusive content.
Reception
Johanna Koziol of Screen Rant criticized Outer Terror for its lack of quality-of-life features, but praised the game's core gameplay loop, tone, and characters, saying "Outer Terror's unique horror spin on the rouge-lite genre makes it a breath of fresh air.".
Thomas Wilde of Bloody Disgusting praised Outer Terror's retro comic book aesthetic and co-op features, but referred to the game as "consistently under baked," and criticized the game for its early release glitches and animation errors.
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Years
- Games released in 2023List › April–June
Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.
