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An Outcry
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“this is a pretty cool game i remember the night after i played this almost perfectly first played it as part of the haunted ps1 demo disc 2021 collection”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Gave me a lot to think about. Loved the poetry.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Yes!”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedLatest official news
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An Outcry 3.0 hotfix
Quick fix after I noticed a small bug cropping up. - Fixes a bug that creates a loop in Ending 1/5
UPDATE TO AN OUTCRY
Changelog (03/12/23): Change and expand ending 1/5 Fix a bug that would decrease the player's movement speed throughout the rest of the game in FOLLOW Fix several typos in FOLLOW and IGNORE Remove ope
An Outcry was nominated for the IGF 2023 Nuovo Award! + Weeklong Deal
On the 23rd of January, I received word from one of the organisers of this year's IGF that An Outcry had been chosen as a nominee for the Nuovo Award. This was publicly announced on the 24th , and was
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AN OUTCRY v. 2.0: RELEASE
Half a year post-release, the team and I came together to add a major, free overhaul update to An Outcry. The short version Without giving too much away, this version fixes many bugs, adds skips, a ne
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Story Rich · Psychological Horror · Pixel Graphics · Singleplayer · Multiple Endings · Dark · Choose Your Own Adventure · 2D · Text-Based · Atmospheric · Choices Matter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP/Vista/8/10 Processor: MMX Pentium(R) 450MHz Memory: 32 MB RAM Storage: 2 GB available space