No Publisher Wanted Outlast. 60 Million Players Later, The Horror Juggernaut Is Doing Just Fine.

Let's play Family Feud. Poll 100 people on the scariest game they've ever played. What's on the board? Surely a Silent Hill, and a Resident Evil, too. Alien Isolation seems likely. One of the Fatal Frames has a good shot. Those who know ball may call out a deeper cut like Siren, Sylvio, or Visage. One name I'm certain makes it on the board--to the tune of my family cheering me on with "Good answer! Good answer!"--is Outlast. The horror game from Montreal-based indie studio Red Barrels was released in 2013 as the d…