"I know what’s in the lake, player. Not a monster. Not a microwave tower. It’s the first draft. The story they deleted before you were born. Do you want to hear it?"
"You were supposed to play as two people," Marta says. "Blake and his wife, Lynn. One in the asylum past, one in the desert present. You would solve puzzles across time. But the code was too hard. So they cut Lynn’s playable chapters. They made her a damsel. Then a corpse." Outlast 2 Cut Audio
"And the baby? The baby at the end? That wasn’t a hallucination. That was the game’s soul. A newborn that could have broken the cycle. But focus groups found it ‘too hopeful.’ So they cut the audio of the baby crying. They replaced it with static. And they told you to decide what was real." "I know what’s in the lake, player
The director’s voice off-mic: "Keep going." It’s the first draft
"I am not the monster. You are the player. And you keep coming back. That’s the real sin."