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Anyone who, after three seasons of Outlast, still thinks a little cold, hunger and sleep deprivation can’t be that bad may soon get the chance to prove it. The survival series is returning to Netflix for a fourth season. Casting is already underway, with sixteen new contestants set to voluntarily throw themselves into the misery. With one million dollars as a particularly tempting incentive, of course.
The first casting calls for Outlast season 4 have appeared online. “16 players will be split into teams where they endure Mother Nature (and each other) for the chance to win a million dollars,” the casting call reads.
Apparently, you don’t need to spend your days chasing bears off the porch to stand a chance. The producers are looking for both passionate adventurers and seasoned survival experts. A healthy dose of mental resilience will certainly come in handy, though where season 4 will be filmed remains unknown, and Netflix has yet to announce a release date.
For season 3, the show notably took on a different name and tag titled Outlast: The Jungle and sits on Netflix as a separate title entirely. It’s unclear whether this fourth season will have a different name again, sit under the original show or The Jungle spin-off.
Outlast first premiered on Netflix in 2023 and is the streamer’s answer to CBS’s long-running Survivor. What sets it apart is one particularly cruel rule: surviving on your own isn’t enough. If you want to win, you have to be part of a team. Sixteen contestants start the competition divided into four groups. Armed with only limited supplies, they have to build a camp, find food and survive the elements. Meanwhile, contestants can switch teams, alliances are formed, tempers flare and strategic games begin. Think of it as a camping holiday, except there’s a million dollars at stake and considerably less holiday spirit. Anyone who has had enough can fire a flare and leave the competition. In the end, the winning team splits the one-million-dollar prize.
Previous seasons have already taken contestants into the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska and Panama. The location may change, but the deliciously nasty formula remains the same. You need the other contestants to win, while those very same people are also standing between you and the prize money.
With casting currently in full swing and filming still to come, however, it seems likely that season 4 will hit the streaming service sometime within the next year or so.
