The other story that players experience over the course of Outlast 2 is what happened to Blake and his friend Jessica when the two attended Catholic school together in the past. Considering this, it's probable that some of the game's ending, like the sun exploding and possibly even the childbirth, was hallucinated. To sum things up, Blake and the lunatics that attempt to murder him throughout the course of the game are all being manipulated by a mind control device (the machine also emitted the blast that downed the helicopter at the beginning of the game, by the way) that was likely put in place by the Murkoff Corporation. Besides the possibility that it's a hallucination, another explanation could be that Blake actually spends months wandering the Arizona desert in search for Lynn, but it just seems like a shorter time to him due to how the machine is impacting his mind. Since supernatural elements in general are thrown out the window thanks to the mind control device, there has to be some explanation for Lynn's sudden pregnancy. For example, it's possible Lynn isn't really pregnant, and simply dies from her wounds, not from giving birth to the 'Anti-Christ.' So, just how much of the ending was hallucinated by Blake? Since everyone near the machine seems to be having the same hallucination, it's questionable whether or not some major events seen at the end of the game even occurred. It is suggested that these experiments are being conducted by the Murkoff Corporation, the same company behind the twisted experiments on display in the first Outlast. However, the in-game notes suggest otherwise, that much of this was hallucinated by Blake due to a machine that is being used to conduct mind control experiments. To those that haven't read any of the in-game notes, it will look as though Lynn was impregnated with the Anti-Christ and essentially brought on the apocalypse. Now, on the surface, all of these events, while insane, seem fairly straightforward.

Instead of following the dead Knoth's advice, Blake walks out into the village with the baby in his arms, and watches the sun explode. A distraught Blake holds the baby in his arms and has a brief conversation with preacher Sullivan Knoth, who has killed all of his followers, and tells Blake to kill the baby. Lynn eventually gives birth to what is heavily suggested to be the Anti-Christ, and then dies. Blake and Lynn try to escape together, but Lynn has to lay down in the chapel when she starts going into labor. At the end of the game, Blake is constantly being pulled back into his Catholic school flashbacks/hallucinations, he has had nails driven through his hands, and in general, he is just in really bad shape, and on the brink of death.Īfter hours of searching, Blake finally finds his wife Lynn, who is now nine months pregnant, even though it seems like only a few hours have passed since the start of their ordeal. The events at the end of Outlast 2 in the present day Arizona desert are certainly the strangest, so perhaps it's best that we start there.

Outlast 2 endings explained