Red Barrels Inc. is a Canadian

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based in

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. The company was founded by Philippe Morin, David Chateauneuf and Hugo Dallaire in 2011. The three were previously developers for

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and

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, but founded the company after the origination of an original

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by Dallaire in 2010. After leaving their respective workplaces, the team's online presence began in July 2012 and a trailer for the game that became ''

Outlast ''Outlast'' is a 2013 first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels. The game revolves around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate a remote psychiatric hospital named Mo ...

''.

History

Philippe Morin, David Chateauneuf and Hugo Dallaire were originally

s for

and were hired in 1997–1998, with Chateauneuf working on ''

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'', and Morin and Dallaire developing '' Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time''. Morin left Ubisoft Montreal in 2009 and worked for

in 2010 for an original

concept by Dallaire, but was cancelled within the same year. With no other options, Morin left in January 2011 to pursue Red Barrels. Chateauneuf remained a part of Ubisoft Montreal and was involved with level design work for the first ''

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'' game. After resigning, Morin met Chateauneuf and Dallaire after the trio left their jobs, agreeing to start their own company. After a technical difficulty with a prior submission, the group acquired in funding from the

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during the 2012–2013

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, and in the 2013–2014 year. In October 2012, the company announced ''

'', which was released in September 2013. The following October, Morin announced that a sequel, ''

Outlast 2 ''Outlast 2'' (stylized as OU⸸LASTII) is a 2017 first-person psychological horror survival video game developed and published by Red Barrels. A sequel to the 2013 video game ''Outlast'', the game features a journalist named Blake Langermann, ...

'', was in development. ''Outlast 2'' was released in April 2017. In July that year, the company released the first issue of comic mini-series ''The Murkoff Account'', which was set for five comics detailing the narrative gap between ''Outlast'' and ''Outlast 2''. On December 4, 2019, the company announced a multiplayer game, ''

The Outlast Trials ''The Outlast Trials'' is an upcoming first-person psychological horror survival video game developed and published by Red Barrels. It is the third installment in the ''Outlast'' series, serving as a prequel to the first two games and features ...

'' and released a teaser image.

Games developed

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://redbarrelsgames.com/ 2011 establishments in Quebec Canadian companies established in 2011 Companies based in Montreal Indie video game developers Video game companies established in 2011 Video game companies of Canada Video game development companies Video game publishers