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Outcast - A New Beginning
Explore the breathtaking alien world of Adelpha, support the local Talans in their struggles and fight your way through fast-paced battles against invading robot forces in this 3rd-person, open world, action adventure sequel to the 1999 cult classic.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“While I have some mixed feelings due to a couple of reasons described later, I still enjoyed most of the 47h (including a couple of hours to get to 100%) I put into this. Therefore I give it thumbs up despite of several flaws. The good Most of the time the game looks great,…”
— a player, Steam review · 47 hrs played“Hi There; I really am enjoying this game. It has action, plot and humor. Although to get the humor, you most likely have to enjoy 1990s - 2000s action movie humor. There is a lot of language play humor (The differences between different worlds languages, and the use of our…”
— a player, Steam review · 109 hrs played“This game is awful. The UI is a mess, getting a mission requires you to click multiple menus. I hate when you get to a mission only to be greeted by, you do not have the required skill pop up message, then dont tell you what skill needed. The dialog is long winded and…”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Price drop on Outcast - A New Beginning!
We are happy to announce that Outcast - A New Beginning got a new pricing as of today. Going forward, the game will have a base price point of $/€ 39.99 and GBP 34.99. https://store.steampowered.com/a
Outcast - A New Beginning Patch 2024/06/04
New and updated Features Added new Quality Mode (40 FPS) on consoles (requires a 120Hz monitor and the output of the console set to 120 Hz) Improved performance and stability on Steam Deck Updated the
Outcast - A New Beginning Patch 2024/04/22
This patch brings a lot of fixes following bugs reported by players, whom we’d like to thank. New Features “Hide HUD”: Players can now select the option “Hide HUD” from the Game Settings, removing all
Accolades Trailer for Outcast - A New Beginning Out Now!
"A beautiful world and a great story." Accolades Trailer for Outcast - A New Beginning Out Now! Vienna, Austria / Charleroi, Belgium - April 16, 2024: 20 years after the award-winning action adventure
Outcast - A New Beginning Patch 2024/03/28
Changes: The Nom-Nom race controls have been simplified. You can now steer Nom-Noms easily with your controller or WASD on PC. Players can now save their game on the Galenta Optimisation: Fixing the F
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Action · Open World · Third-Person Shooter · Action-Adventure · Dynamic Narration · Third Person · Singleplayer · 3D · Aliens · Sci-fi · 1990's · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian, German * , Spanish - Spain * , Arabic, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese * , Japanese * , Korean, Polish * , Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 52 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.outcast2.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10, 64 Bit Processor: Ryzen 3 1300X / Intel Core i3-7530K Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 980 Ti / Radeon RX 5600 XT DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space