Look Outside

Look Outside

Released Mar 2025

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.

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Evaluation

Look Outside launched on March 21, 2025 and has since received a steady stream of major content updates from developer Francis Coulombe. Four significant updates have shipped post-launch: version 1.5 on June 19, 2025 (adding new areas and crafting expansion), version 1.6 on August 27, 2025 (new music, gear, and interactions), the large 2.0 "Final Vision" update on October 28, 2025 (new endings, monsters, quests, bosses, and challenge mode), and most recently version 2.3 on April 15, 2026 (redesigned boss fights, new weapon moves, new dialogue, and visual improvements). Between major updates, the developer has also shipped multiple feature patches with balance changes, new characters, and quality-of-life improvements. This history shows a consistent and active development cadence across more than a year since launch, with the most recent major update arriving just two months before today's date. No specific future content has been announced, but the developer has not indicated that development is winding down either.
Evidence
Version 2.3 released with redesigned boss fights, new weapon special moves, new dialogue, visual improvements, and new animation options.
news post · Apr 15, 2026 source content shipped
high
Version 2.0 'Final Vision' update released with new endings, monsters, quests, bosses, areas, and a Cursed challenge mode.
news post · Oct 28, 2025 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Mar 2025

Media

Details

Publisher
Devolver Digital
Achievements
152
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters - human and otherwise.

Survival Horror & Resource Management

Plan tense expeditions outside your apartment as you fend off grotesque monsters dwelling in and around your building. Return to your home with gathered resources and partial answers to your questions to recuperate by playing games, making dinner, crafting tools, and getting to know your neighbors turned allies.

Inventive Turn-Based Combat

Clash with over 150 hand-crafted creatures in turn-based combat that accounts for space between you and your foes as you wield makeshift weapons and items you've gathered in the corridors of the building.

Impeccable Body Horror Aesthetic

Meet your macabre fate in a bizarre world teeming with an unconventional and occasionally psychotic cast of characters - some of which you can recruit and offer safe harbor in your apartment as the mystery unravels.

Small, Experimental, and Unwaveringly Weird

Offering 10 - 12 hours of playtime with a dozen boss encounters, friends to recruit, and visitors to invite back to your home, Look Outside offers different experiences for every player on their way to uncover several different endings.
Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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