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Outcast: A New Beginning

Explore the breathtaking alien world of Adelpha, support the local Talans in their struggles and fight your way through fast-paced battles against invading robot forces in this 3rd-person, open world, action…

71 15 March 2024

Outcast: A New Beginning is an adventure developed by Appeal Studios, released 15 March 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Outcast: A New Beginning is

Outcast: A New Beginning is an adventure game developed by Appeal Studios and released in 2024. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

20 years after the award-winning action adventure hit, Outcast, pioneered the genre of non-linear open-world games, the long-awaited sequel sees Cutter Slade return to the spectacular alien world of Adelpha. Resurrected by the almighty Yods, he has returned to find the Talans enslaved, the world stripped of its natural resources, and his own past intertwining with the invading robot forces. It's up to him to go on a mission and save the planet again. The original team behind Outcast 1 has reunited to create this fascinating world, full of dangerous creatures and home to the Talan people – an ancient culture whose fate has become inextricably linked with earth since the events of the first…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Outcast: A New Beginning holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Outcast: A New Beginning launched on 15 March 2024, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Dragon's Dogma II, Unicorn Overlord and Minishoot' Adventures. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Dragon's Dogma II, Unicorn Overlord, Minishoot' Adventures.

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Official trailer

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When did Outcast: A New Beginning come out?
Outcast: A New Beginning was released on 15 March 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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