Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds is the third game by the indie studio Mobius Digital, known for Beacon 38 and Terra Chroma, an exploration game and an RPG with puzzle elements. This time, they've created an open world adventure game.

Plot

Outer Wilds is a first-person adventure game, in which we play as a recruit of the Outer Wilds Ventures space program, tasked with studying the changing solar system stuck in a time loop. The game hides many mysteries, the most important one being: can the loop be stopped? There are also many smaller plot threads to discover, such as mysterious ruins on one of the moons.

Mechanics

Gameplay-wise, Outer Wilds mostly focuses on exploration. We must travel between planets aboard a small spacecraft. After landing, we can start exploring the areas on foot. Every planet hides different secrets and locations. We may encounter underground cities, notes left behind by unknown species or have the planet collapse beneath our feet. The areas also change over time, meaning they're different depending on at what point in the loop we visit them. For example, if we visit the city too late, we may find it swallowed by sand. While exploring we'll make use of various gadgets, for such purposes as tracking signals. We can equip them at our base camp, where we can also replenish oxygen and rest by the fire.

Technical aspects

Outer Wilds is a 3D first-person game. It features a distinctive artstyle and its areas are very diverse, differing in terms of terrain, vegetation or lack thereof, and many other aspects.

Last updated on 19 March 2024