Explore the warped interior of the apartment building you are stuck in. Fight hideous monsters that were once your neighbors. Manage weapons and ammo. Play video games. Craft bombs from household supplies. Cook. Answer the door. DONT let them in. Keep yourself alive and sane as the world just outside your window stops making sense.
Just whatever you do...
DONT LOOK OUTSIDE
A survival horror RPG by Francis Coulombe, with music by Eric Shumaker, made in one month for the Hawktober game jam.
Look Outside is an unbelievably disturbing and effective horror RPG. The audio and visuals are some of the most inventive and disturbing, perfectly befitting the 16-bit-style graphics. Often creepy, but sometimes a little funny and sad, Look Outside stands out as one of the best things anyone has ever made with RPG Maker. It just demands a little patience...
Look Outside is a short horror experience, one that I feel should be experienced on handheld, especially now that it’s on the Nintendo Switch 2. Gruesome body horror and fun turn-based combat make it a lot of fun, but some shallow, harder-to-understand systems sometimes get in the way.
Look Outside isn’t perfect—it suffers from some pacing issues and a level of difficulty that, at times, is a bit too forgiving—but it offers enough to justify every hour spent in its distorted corridors.
With deliciously detailed and often horrifying pixel art driving the experience, this is an indie horror game that demands some attention
On Nintendo Switch 2, Look Outside is an easy recommendation for anyone who appreciates retro RPGs with a genuinely nasty streak. It’s disturbing, inventive and occasionally infuriating, but those frustrations rarely overshadow its considerable strengths.
