Look Outside - Playthrough (Release) & Best Ending

A playthrough for the full release of Look Outside, where bad stuff is going on outside and you probably shouldn't peek. But some people did and now your apartment has gone to hell, so you should at least look inside at that.

This should cover most of the events in the game but I do miss a few things (I couldn't remember where to get the Jupiter disc, for instance) as I didn't give the love letter to Nestor or remember to go back and fight the furnace boss. This playthrough should also show how to get some of the less obvious characters like Leigh, Joel, and the rat baby in addition to the best outcome with the ritual.

I've played several of the demo builds and have been excited to play the full game. This is a very well-done RPG Maker style game with lovely pixel art and music. You should definitely check it out.

0:00 Start
2:16 Wounded Neighbor
7:14 Vincent
11:37 Aster
12:51 Apartment Key & Grinning Beast
13:48 Recruiting Leigh
14:48 Laundry List and Apartment Robbery
16:21 Lyle
18:52 Rafta
26:33 Tooth Apartment
28:29 Joel
32:53 Baby Teeth
34:10 Recruiting Joel & Meeting Shady
35:51 Playing Toys with Ben
38:56 Eugene's Shop
40:28 Aurelius
42:16 Painter's Apartment
56:19 Rat Baby
58:03 Saving the Rat Baby & Getting the Earth Disc
1:01:28 Rat Freak & Getting the Mars Disc
1:12:56 Ground Floor
1:15:02 Bus & Shop
1:20:02 Shady Second Meeting
1:21:15 Jasper
1:52:51 Taxidermy Apartment
2:02:36 Shady Third Meeting
2:03:16 Landlord's Apartment
2:30:45 Finishing Wizard's Hell
2:36:05 Shady Outside Our Apartment & Telescope Room
2:38:45 Basement
2:46:34 Sewers
3:00:04 Monty and Xaria
3:04:41 Apartment 20 Revisit
3:29:29 War Rifle
3:36:16 Boiler Beast
3:43:42 Mutant Camp
3:50:53 Beryl
3:53:16 Parking Lot
3:57:55 Elevator & Janitor Keys
4:06:02 Clearing Stargazer's Apartment
4:08:25 Getting the Negative Disc
4:09:31 Getting the Exposed Printer Paper
4:11:41 Having Lyle Develop the Photo
4:16:16 Fungus Colony
4:20:16 Laughing Mold
4:25:19 Betrayal
4:28:51 Face Taker
4:32:06 Frederic
4:33:12 Finding the Cursed Painting
4:39:33 Typewriter and the Manuscript
4:44:21 Store & Blank VHS (Monster inside bugged out)
4:47:10 Chilly Apartment Revisit
5:00:01 Entering the Security Room & Weapons Room
5:02:02 Panopticon, Cinnamon, and the CCTV Recording
5:06:18 Disc Rooms by Jasper
5:07:50 Recruiting Papineau
5:10:48 Getting the Developed Photo
5:13:48 Plant Apartment
5:20:13 Rat King
5:26:51 Hell Car
5:31:08 Philippe
5:34:27 Spore Mother
5:40:51 Same Old Dan
5:42:05 We Must Wake the Bloodknight
5:47:12 Making the Offerings
5:48:40 Up On the Roof
5:51:20 Ritual
5:52:21 Chaos Quartet
5:54:32 Exalted Four
5:58:29 The Visitor
6:01:28 Perfect Ritual (Denial) Ending
6:05:29 Credits

Many thanks to Devolver and the developer Francis Coulombe for an early key.

My Social Media Stuff:

[rando]

Man, that ending was . . . strangely heartwarming. For all the damage it did, the Visitor and Sam parted as friends. It was never evil, just . . . other. By perfecting the ritual, we made it possible for it to think on a human level and understand that it needed to leave for the good of mankind. Hell, even the astronomers got to experience the rapture of ascension for a brief time, even if they did have to get put down to save the Earth.

[KeirosDragon]

Wow, the best ending really lives up to it being “best ending.”

Despite the horrors of it all on top of being transformed into a new eldritch god, you still manage to retain your humanity, kindness, and compassion.

[Idkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk]

That scene with the teeth, the toy soldier, and the child.
The "he's gone..."
Punched me straight in the heart, was not expecting the feels.

[al]

I think it's the first time I've seen an Eldritchian happy ending. A happy ending with a scale tantamount and as Lovecraftian as the horrors and sufferings that occured before it. That was amazing and wholesome. Just, wow.

[magoichi]

"He's gone." Little man got one last game of army men in before finally letting go, really hit me hard so good on you for letting him have that.

[ReyaitheShadowWolf]

I love the idea of the Visitor being a child, not knowing of the harm it has been doing to the planet, it being upset and realizing that is has been destroying countless lives. Makes the final interaction with it all the more wholesome and heartwarming.

[TheRadicalOneNG]

Frederic was the best fakeout ever, bro just lights up after stopping the bit, love this game's sense of humor when it peeks out.

[DZCOSENTRY]

I love the idea that, by showing it a collection of references, you help the Visitor to become self-aware for the first time. Also, Sam hugging the world in the end and protecting it from future cosmic beings is so beautiful.

[sarcastic_alpaca]

I just adore how end; while still horrifying, that the human spirit still lives and endures even when twisted and irreparablely changed. The whole game felt like it was leading you to be empathetic and kind in the face of the most horrible things you still kept your compassion and kindness in the end. Even in the face of all the horrors and evils in the world as long as you keep a bit of that tenderness there's still hope in face of the bad.

[kuro]

Its incredible that they managed to write a weirdly wholesome ending to a cosmic horror story, without downplaying the horror aspect of it. Yes, Eldritch horror is unfathomably powerful and mind bending, and the protagonist is forever irreversibly changed after meeting it, but a hopeful ending manages to come through.

[SkyeWinters-yocc]

Dang best ending is befriending the eldritch being. Based.

And then you freaking become a freakish but awesome monster god. Heck yeah.

[arriasinsanite]

the grimdark premise of th game made it even more heartwarming at the end,
the good ending feels truly owned

[PhrozenFox]

Using the guinea pig mutating to determine which camera feed is the correct one is a stroke of genius for game design. This entire game is made by a genius.

[Kdubswm]

Man, what an interesting ending. The visitor was very confused and curious and didn't want to hurt anyone. Instead of being arrogant with the offerings from mere mortals it was really blessed and humbled to have received them.

[pescando]

Spectacular. I can’t believe the final result game exceeds my expectations this much. The art just kept topping itself and matched so well with the escalating stakes of the narrative. This looks like it took a lot of hard work to complete and be made functional. Incredible game.

[WaveForceful]

That tooth family is the most heart breaking part of the game and that horrible monster the baby became just because it caught a glimpse of the visitor.. she didn't deserve it, she didn't understand. Everything about that section of the game was spot on, the music, the ambience, all of it.

[오주환-bn]

Y’know, this game is surprisingly positive for. Well. What’s going on, the entire premise of the game.

[ricardoguereca]

The most dreaded horror of this game amongst EVERYTHINg.. was the food vendor selling SINGLE EGGS at exactly TWENTY DOLLARS EACH. 25:21

[AngryAragami]

Sometimes family is a Tired Recluse, a Grinning Psychopath, a Toothed Orphan, and a Rat Baby.
And that's.... fine? I think it's fine?
I don't know man the Landlord is Hands.

[GgrimrodD]

I like that Joel can become a freaking tank in the late game. Imagine a little eight year old kid with a face of teeth devouring you