Look Outside
A downloadable game for Windows
Some terrible phenomenon is taking place outside.
Those who look are changed in grotesque ways.
Something beckons you to look, too.
DO IT.
Explore the warped interior of the apartment building you are stuck in. Fight hideous monsters that were once your neighbors. Manage weapons and ammo. Play video games. Craft bombs from household supplies. Cook. Answer the door. DONT let them in.
Keep yourself alive and sane as the world just outside your window stops making sense.
Just whatever you do...
DONT LOOK OUTSIDE
A survival horror RPG by Francis Coulombe, with music by Eric Shumaker, made in one month for the Hawktober game jam.
(Note: Once you reach the apartment buildings' ground floor, you have seen most of the games' current content. There is a bit more to see if you keep exploring, but it becomes more sparse after that.)
(also note: The built-in mouse/touch controls are a little bit weird for this game, so I recommend you use keyboard or gamepad controls instead.)
Additional credits: MushroomCake28 for the 3d audio engine plugin LeonMillan for Item Requirement for Skill plugin Winthorp Darkrites for Item selection window plugin, Trilobytes/John Clifford/Trihan for the Limited Shop Stock plugin.
This is the in-development version of the game. To see the 1-month game jam version as it was submitted, go here: https://frankiesmileshow.itch.io/look-outsidejamv
Find any bugs, or have comments? Post them here, or join My Discord Server !
I also stream game development for this game and others on my Twitch Stream.
Updated | 29 days ago |
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (72 total ratings) |
Author | FrankieSmileShow |
Genre | Role Playing, Survival |
Made with | RPG Maker, Audacity, Aseprite |
Tags | Horror, RPG Maker, RPG Maker MZ, Survival Horror, Turn-Based Combat, Turn-based Strategy |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
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Development log
- Lots of hotfixes happening! Latest is 0.30d!30 days ago
- New hotfix is out, version 0.30c!32 days ago
- Minor hotfix update 0.30b32 days ago
- Version 0.30 released!33 days ago
- Version 0.28 is out!61 days ago
- Version 0.27 released!62 days ago
- Version 0.26 is out.65 days ago
- version 0.25 is out! Mostly bug fixes.66 days ago
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This game just keeps getting more interesting, I can't wait for it to be completed!
I love fear and hunger and as this seems to also be made with RPGmaker, I'm very interested already!
Absolutely excellent game. I've played for more than eight hours at this point, and I was never expecting to have this much fun. The story is honestly really interesting, the pixel art looks amazing and has great style, and the concept and environment had me completely hooked. The enemy designs are all extremely unique, and the horror design aspect of them is especially good. The game does an absolutely amazing job at introducing these horrors in suspenseful ways at the beginning of the game, and then brings out more unique ones as the game progresses to keep things from becoming bland. Plus the puzzles and gameplay you complete to progress to the end, is absolutely amazing. Finding and creating these four different logs of the phenomena was extremely fun, and I liked that you had to logically avoid looking at any of these logs for the sake of preventing your doom. Now I do have to say, it is very unfinished at this point, and I was pretty disappointed that I couldn't see any ending, especially since I had been absolutely sure I had all four correct items, which was really satisfying to finally achieve, but it's completely understandable considering that this game literally has only been in development for four short months. I mean, it is absolutely nuts that you have managed to create this good a game that left me hooked on and having fun for days in just a few months. Bravo. Of course there's a bunch of other unfinished stuff, and a ton of glitches, but I still had so much fun, and every glitch and unfinished mechanic was forgiven in mind of its extraordinarily short development time. I'll be anxiously awaiting to buy a full release! (take your time tho devs, don't overwork yourselves)
So something that I have an issue with how things like Grimy or Restless work, and im not sure if it's just me, but it seems like no matter what I do, they don't go away.
First, Restless came, being bored of things and lowering EXP gain, which was fine, because to cure this mood, i needed to explore uncharted places or play games {or so it said}. But that didn't go away, even after exploring new areas, the bored remark never vanished. I'm not sure if that's intentional
Bad Breath followed, and didn't seem to go away even after brush your teeth with toothpaste, and mint gum doesn't help either because it couldn't even be used despite it being used for bad breath.
Then Grimy/smelly came, which I found most strange because I normally always have the character shower, and I have soap to make it more effective.
They personally arn't really all that game ruining because I still played a good portion of the game with them around, but I feel like that isin't supposed to happen, is it just something with me specifically? {I like the game a lot}
The game is and looks absolutely amazing really enjoying the game definitely gonna play more
Part 2
Part 3
I love it. The vibe, the feeling and honestly... the main character design from the side look reminds me of Habbo Hotel for some reason
Coffee machine doesn't work 😔
(Apart from that, the game is amazing, I hope the update is soon)
Guys i got kinda lost here, where do i go after giving the four thingies tho the astronomers?
You must have skipped the dialogue - the man literally gives you a robe and a roof key, telling you to go up to the roof for the ritual. HOWEVER - since the game is still being developed, you cannot access this area yet :) the game is only being made since 4 months and the dev is still adding stuff regularly.
Thank you so much, yeah i didn't remmember reading this part - excited for the more, the game is great.
Any of yall experience this 😐
Spooke :)
The game does not go fullscreen when I launch. How do I make it fullscreen?
f4
Hi bro, when you finish the game will it be free or paid? I'm loving the game every time I play it I like it even more! The game have an ending in this version or no?
I have questions on the game?
I see screenshots of people having Hellen without her mask, how do you do that? Also for the knocking event of the old lady looking for her child, does anyone where she’s located or is she not yet implemented in the current version?
Afaik with Hellen, it’s when she tries to play with the Rat Baby when you get it into your place.
As for the second one, I’m not sure if you’re referring to the same “mom”. But I explored almost everything but I still can’t find Sophie’s mom.
alhamd lilah ya sahi. alhamd lilhi. allah tayib ya rajulu. alhamd lilhi. allah 'akbaru.
I spent.Three days.
Looking for.
The Neptune Disc.
Only to find out.
It was on the right side.
OF A RANDOM ROOM. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
+5 hours and loved it, got kinda lost on the first floor but managed it, maybe a map would be a cool addition? idk, love the game man, keep up the good work
woah
are you going to release this game on steam?
Some bugs (Possible Spoiler)
Game is fun and hopefully the bugs get fixed and more content to be added.
Not sure if it’s a bug that on my save, Jasper took the blank VHS. I wasn’t able to do anything on the place where the security cameras are as I think you’re supposed to use the blank VHS to record something.
Some minor bugs include items displaying as probably the item index number instead of name
consider visiting the twitch of frankie and telling him that when he is streaming: https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow/videos
i do not know whether he is reading all the comments here..
maybe ill do a list of reported bugs and visit him myself when he streams.
played this game for hour and a half and absolutely enjoyed it! thank you <3
hope it gets all the recongnition it deserves =)
bread + eggs cooking adds itself to your inventory as an egg salad sandwich, but the items aren't consumed. thereby giving infinite healing items
EDIT: Problem patched, thanks for the hotfix!
Came across a pretty nasty bug. One of the door encounters lets you meet the Punk Brothers. They will stay in your bedroom and if you talk to them, they'll give a pillow to sleep in the hall instead.
After I went to sleep in the hall, apparently the pillow was SO comfortable, the game hard-locked and trapped me in a "waking-up" loop.Can't do anything as I've pressed every button and nothing worked. I'll have to either wait for a hotfix or start from scratch...
Game is very interesting, I can't wait to play more of it!
I hope the music old and revised get archived for a soundtrack release. The revision of the safe room still sounds good but I really like the version 0.29
i think i got to the end of this update, started completing puzzles to empty rooms. companion designs were cool. :)
In the latest update, when I went to play a game and accidentally choose nothing. I ended up in the "play a game" animation with no text. Just me turning on the tv and going to the couch. I then stood up, turned the tv off. And now I can't play any of the games to get the benefits from them
Okay, first off wow, second: I really wish I had taken the game a little more serious in the beginning and hadn't named my character "Butt" XD but I super super enjoyed this game and had fun playing it to wind down after work. It's the perfect level of spooky to where it doesn't paralyze you but you have a constant sense of unease and personally that's the most I ever enjoy being spooked. Keep spookin my friend, you will totally see me again when this updates.
When William knocks on your door and ask for medical supplies, if you gave him the first aid kit he will reject it and leave but if you gave him a tonic he will take it as if it was the first aid kit and paid for it
just found your game recently, having lots of fun
love the game but got softlocked after sleeping on the couch, 10/10 tho very fun
Tying Up Some Loose Ends - Look Outside Pt. 2
I wish there was an official upload of the OST...
Bro i just love it. I would like to have cutscenes in the game, death animations, u know
Can't beat spore mother, once defeated, she simply loops over and over.
Also, Dan never showed up for me.
I love this game. I wanted everyone in Japan to know about it, so I translated it into Japanese.
I've played through 5+ hours of the 0.29 version and so far I really love this game. The art is absolutely gorgeous and I'm exited to see where the story unfolds. I do, however, have to share a few things that I had problems with, though most of these are bugs that should get fixed in the full release or mechanics I just didn't understand which is mostly on me.
1. When it comes to the Baby Teeth fight, I have no idea how to trigger it? It's totally possible (and probable) that I missed something, but I skipped over the initial encounter with it once killing the mother. I thought playing army with the one child (forgot his name) would cause it to respawn but it never did. I have seen other playthroughs where you can trigger the fight after dodging the initial encounter, so I'm not sure what's supposed to happen.
2. As soon as I got the boredom status it never left my character, despite me often having day-long trips exploring the building. Again, I don't know if this was a glitch or if I was playing even more carefully than I thought.
3. My plant was dying even though I was pretty diligent about watering it daily.
4. Had Hellen show up at the door even though she was already in my party.
5. Had my metal bat crack on me when I used a tonic on a party member outside of battle.
6. When selecting to leave when taling to Jasper it initiates a combat sequence (though thankfully you can run from it).
Despite this, like I said, I overall thought this was a good game. Hell, I often forgot I was playing a demo at points. I can only imagine that the full release will be absolutely amazing and I can hardly wait.
Also please let me kiss Lyle whenever I'm begging you
Well look at that. Most of the bugs I listed have been fixed!
Now if only I could make out with Lyle sloppy style...This game's honestly great. I love the lore that this game has and hope it continues to get lots of love and new content!
This art style reminds me of LumpyTouch.
When I talk to Aurelius and ask him if he has looked outside his text goes out of the box