
The single-player story is arranged in 15 chapters, which players complete in order to progress through the story. A sequel, The Evil Within 2, was released on October 13, 2017. The Evil Within received a generally positive reception upon release praise was mostly directed at the game's horror elements, gameplay and atmosphere, while criticism was directed at the game's story, characters and technical issues. Played in a third-person perspective, players battle disfigured nightmare-like enemies, including bosses, using guns and melee weapons, and progress through the levels, avoiding traps, using stealth, and finding collectables.

The game centers on protagonist Sebastian Castellanos as he is pulled through a distorted world full of nightmarish locations and horrid creatures. The game was directed by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami and was released worldwide in October 2014 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

What Sebastian’s wife and daughter happened to, is not understood.The Evil Within is a survival horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. This leads to the assumption that Ruvik was able to return to the real world by Leslie and there still can influence the people who were connected to the STEM. He felt a brief headache, a sign of Ruviks influence on people who are connected to the STEM, thereby losing sight of Leslie.

When the police arrive, Sebastian leaves the mental hospital and discovered Leslie who runs away from the clinic. When he opens them again, Kidman and Leslie have disappeared from their pans. Kidman is at his side and signaled him to lie still. He wakes up in the tub and then is seemingly back in reality. He decoupled from the STEM machine breaks Ruviks brain from the apparatus and crushes it.

Then he wakes up in the tub in which he has previously seen. As Ruvik then appears, he leads Leslie in his arms and absorbed him into his brain what the world plunges into an even bigger mess: Sebastian must fight a giant creature that has sprung Ruviks thoughts. Kidman met again at the two and tried to kill Leslie. Leslie Sebastian leads back to the mental hospital in which he sees the body of Lighthouse Jimenez, Leslie, Joseph, Kidman, his colleagues and himself Connelly lie in tubs.
