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73/100
Metacritic4 critic reviews
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Metacritic usersuser score
84/100
Player reviews
80% positive35 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$9.99

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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.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows20 April 2023Worldwide
Nintendo Switch12 April 2024Worldwide
Xbox Series X/S12 April 2024North America
Xbox One12 April 2024North America
PlayStation 412 April 2024Worldwide
PlayStation 512 April 2024Worldwide

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