The Outlast Trials has revealed the horrifying sibling duo Otto and Arora Kress, aka The Kress Twins, who are set to be introduced in the upcoming Season 4 update. Besides the brother-sister pair, The Outlast Trials is will also be receiving other additional content when the new season rolls out.

Established by Red Barrels in 2013, the Outlast franchise has grown steadily over time in the survival horror genre, thanks to the three positively received entries released so far. Since its newest chapter, The Outlast Trials, hit shelves in 2024, the devs have shipped three seasonal updates, with the most recent one coming in April 2025. With Season 3: Project Relapse, the Outlast Trials players received a new ex-pop enemy called The Jaeger as well as the vast Suburbs map, among other things. In the next update, the stakes look set to go even higher with the addition of a new prime asset.

In a recent announcement, Red Barrels unveiled some of the content coming to enhance the Outlast Trials experience in the Season 4: Project Diarchy update. The content refresh, which is scheduled to be available on July 15, will bring The Kress Twins, a new Shopping Mall map, Reborn 2.0, along with two new MK-Challenges named "Get Out the Vote" and "Sentence the Prosecuted."

The Outlast Trials Season 4 Project Diarchy Content

  • The Kress Twins
  • Shopping Mall map
  • MK-Challenges: Get Out the Vote and Sentence the Prosecuted
  • Reborn 2.0

The villainous siblings are the descendants of a wealthy industrial tycoon, Anton Kress, whose experiments ended up morphing the twins into their conjoined form at birth. As shown in the accompanying trailer, the brother uses a murky chainsaw to attack players, whereas the sister relies on ranged throws of poison flasks to surprise them. Due to the twins being conjoined, they also have a 360-degree view of their surroundings, making it even harder for the reagents to escape.

The new prime asset, The Kress Twins, will be marauding the freshly revealed Shopping Mall trial environment. Taking inspiration from Otto's background in politics, the map contains several references to a political parade, with its salient banners and decorations. Outlast Trials players who are interested in learning more about the background story of the terrifying twins can also go through the latest issue of the Murkoff Collections digital comic series.

Apart from the upcoming major content update, there is more to look forward to for fans of the Outlast franchise in the future. In October 2024, it was confirmed that Outlast was being adapted into a movie project by Lionsgate. However, since little to no new information has come out since the announcement, when that project may finally hit the theaters is anyone's guess right now.

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The Outlast Trials
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Survival Horror
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Top Critic Avg: 72 /100 Critics Rec: 62%
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Released
May 18, 2023
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due TO Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Nudity, Drug Reference, Strong Language
Developer(s)
Red Barrels
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Red Barrels
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Survival Horror