Outbreak: Shades of Horror throws you into the beginning hours of a waking nightmare. As citizens of Cypress Ridge succumb to infection, they lose all sense of humanity, only knowing their hunger for flesh. Explore the dilapidated streets of the city solo or with up to three friends via online cooperative play, choosing from a variety of survivor characters each with their unique starting loadouts, quirks and abilities.

Experience the pivotal moments in 1999 across Cypress Ridge, a midwestern town being thrown into chaos as an undead epidemic transitions from a slow burn to a full unstoppable outbreak. Manage your supplies and limited inventory carefully while fighting and dodging the infected. Find alternate routes to safety through the changed streets and buildings, using your investigative skills, scattered notes, and your wit to progress. The zombies are hungry...and they're coming after you and your team from every direction.

And remember; it's not just about you. Keep each other safe and healthy, or suffer the consequences of your fellow survivors looking to you for their next meal!

Welcome to Cypress Reel

Before the outbreak, Cypress Ridge was a booming metropolis. Featuring everything from first class dining, exquisite shopping, and of course all of the things that moviegoers and gamers loved in the late '90s.

Return to the era with a trip to Cypress Reel, the "hub" in Outbreak: Shades of Horror. It's a place to take a moment away from the apocalypse either alone or with your friends so you can get yourself ready for the nightmare ahead.

On your next visit to Cypress Reel, make sure to...

• Hang out with your friends and test your skill at the shooting range and combat areas, while also testing out all of the different weapons, items, and abilities available in Shades of Horror.

• Choose your character, select your abilities, and change any cosmetics like hats, jackets, weapon skins, and much more!

• Venture out into the deadly world of survival horror by selecting a level via a movie poster, or visiting Cypress Arcade to start up a bonus mode.

• Listen to tunes from the Outbreak, Dinobreak, and Railbreak series at Cypress Hall.

• Check out the latest trailers and news from Cypress Ridge inside the main theater.

• And much more for those willing to explore!

Endless Content to Explore

Outbreak: Shades of Horror is designed to grow, with new content, characters, levels, abilities, skins, and more coming regularly post launch. All of this content is usable in all of the different major game modes supported in the title.

• Campaign (Story) Mode - Experience narrative driven open ended scenarios as you and your fellow survivors experience the story covering the destruction of Cypress Ridge from the undead epidemic.

• Invasion Mode - Grab some supplies, construct an outpost, and prepare to defend against waves of undead, monsters, and more coming to make you lunch! You'll work together with your teammates and friendly AI to protect civilians as you leverage buildable walls, turrets, traps, supply stations, and more in this massive war across Cypress Ridge.

• Raid Mode - Linear driven, tough as nails levels where you're forced to leverage extremely limited supplies to try to make your way through the city. If you're fast, you may be able to rescue a few civilians along the way, but in the end your mission is to reach an extraction point before the undead take you down!

• Arcade Minigames Mode - Hit the arcade in Cypress Reel as you attempt to survive numerous devious minigames inspired by some of the greatest moments in the survival horror genre. Everything from escaping collapsing tunnels, to fighting armies of powerful boss monsters, and much more await!

Features

• Running on bleeding edge Unreal Engine 5.5.3, leveraging full path tracing, megalights, and native support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 4.

• Play the entire game either solo offline, or in up to 4-player online cooperative play across the narrative driven Campaign Mode, the all out assault of Invasion Mode, the tough as nails gauntlet of Raid Mode, and a massive assortment of additional minigames!

• Choose from a beautifully hand crafted diverse group of 30+ unlucky survivors trapped in the opening hours of a zombie outbreak, each able to be individually leveled up to unlock their potential for survival with deep RPG mechanics.

• Band together with the remaining citizens of Cypress Ridge to survive, some of which may have weapons to battle the monstrosities, and others may just be running for their lives!

• Play through the entire game in first-person or third person, with the ability to switch views at any time during gameplay.

• Use everything you can to survive from firearms and melee weapons, to explosives, flamethrowers, and as a last ditch effort, a mighty kick!

• Dismember the undead with well-placed shots, changing their attack behavior and increasing your odds of survival. Enemies can be fully dismembered.

• Intense resource management inspired by retro survival horror with a contemporary interface.

• Tailor the difficulty based on your play; from a forgiving Assisted difficulty mode, all the way up to the insta-death nightmare of Apocalyptic.

• Solve puzzles and navigate an immersive environment inspired by 1990s-2000s era cities.

• Succeed or fail in building, combining, and repairing various items and weapons with a modern crafting system.

• Designed and influenced directly from the community's feedback to build the ultimate survival horror nightmare!