Out Of Sight (PC) Review

Out of Sight is a second-person horror adventure about a blind girl named Sophie who must escape a haunted house before her elderly captors can subject her to a mysterious dark ritual. By some occult miracle, Sophie becomes psychically linked to her teddy bear, allowing her to see her grim surroundings through its eyes.

Together, Sophie and Teddy explore the creaking halls of the mansion, solve puzzles, and outwit their captors. The gameplay is light but engaging, drawing inspiration from modern classics like Outlast and Among the Sleep and golden-era PS1 survival horror. At the same time, a clever new perspective-shifting mechanic adds a fresh twist to the familiar genre conventions.

The narrative is simple but effective horror that uses a cheatsheet of tropes to craft a story that’s grim on the surface, and bone-chilling just below. It’s a classic fable of a child in peril, told with an innocent, storybook-like art style that belies the pitch-black atmosphere... Read more