The Evil Within - Season Pass (DLC)

I went into this Season Pass expecting more of what the base game does, and Tango Gameworks completely wrong-footed me. The Assignment and The Consequence, the two-part Kidman storyline, ditch the gun-heavy action of the main campaign and rebuild the horror around stealth and helplessness. Kidman has no firearms. Her toolkit is a flashlight, throwable bottles, and the occasional axe for single-use instakills. You spend most of your time crouched against walls, peeking around corners, and luring enemies with sound rather than fighting through them. It lands closer to Outlast than Resident Evil 4, and if the base game's stealth felt like an afterthought, the reworked version here is tighter and more deliberate. The narrative payoff is the real reason to play those first two chapters. The Kidman storyline fills in gaps the main campaign leaves frustratingly vague, including more on the STEM system, Leslie's significance, and the Ruvik-Jimenez relationship. Jennifer Carpenter's performance grounds Kidman as a character who barely registered during Sebastian's campaign but becomes genuinely interesting once you see things from her side. Audio diaries and documents flesh out her past, and boss encounters are distinct and memorable. The Assignment can drag when stealth goes on too long without variety, and The Consequence occasionally loses the thread trying to wrap up a complicated plot while still being a game. Neither flaw is a dealbreaker, but they are noticeable. The Executioner is a different beast entirely. You play as The Keeper, the box-headed hammer-swinging monster from the main game, in first-person melee combat. The premise is unexpectedly touching: a father entering STEM to rescue his daughter, narrated through her diary notes tracking her mental unravelling. Combat uses a hammer as your default weapon, with memory tokens collected from enemies spent in a shop on unlockables like a rocket launcher, chainsaw, and traps. Finisher animations let you spike enemies onto spinning blades or hurl them into other foes. It is short, maybe two hours straight through, and the wave-based Execution Chambers plus New Game Plus with an extra boss give it modest replay legs. The combat is repetitive if you push past the novelty, and the lack of any mode beyond running the same layout again limits longevity. As a bundle, this Season Pass holds up. The Kidman chapters are the main event and worth the price alone for Evil Within fans hungry for story context and a different flavour of horror. The Executioner is the curiosity piece, fun for a run or two but thin. Expect roughly eight to ten hours total across all three. This is strictly for players who finished the base game and want more time in its world. Jump in cold and you will be lost on story and miss the moments where the DLC earns its weight. Alex, Scout Team