There is a planet made of water and cyclones. But the playfulness of your home town continues even as you explore other planets, with experiments and secrets hidden in ruins and caves all over the solar system. Three balls in a small compound roll from one side to another, showing in real-time the effect of the moon’s gravity.Įventually, you get your launch codes and take off. There’s a crystal that alters gravity and sticks you to the wall.
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The observatory at the top of the village is full of exhibits and has all the joy of visiting the Science Museum as a kid and playing with weird models. There’s a space suit, camera probes, and a curious fish in a tank that’s probably nothing to worry about.
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A game of hide and seek with a noise detector teaches you how to hear signals in the cosmos. It’s also an introduction to the principles of space exploration, letting you play with various toys. You’re the young hero, leaving home for your first adventure, talking to your neighbours and getting survival tips from your elders. This is a first-person explore ‘em up, but you start in a home village reminiscent of any good RPG. You can come back and listen to me some other time. I’ll try to go light on detail but if you trust me enough to play something on the basis of a single paragraph (you fool), please grab it and enjoy your time in space. It’s also a game of finding delight in your discoveries. We don’t do star ratings on RPS, but if we did I’d give Outer Wilds a small galaxy.
Overflowing with a toyish love of astronomy and physics, it jettisons stuffy formulae for adventures on dangerous planets full of sand, and one-way trips to icy comets hurtling around the sun. It taps into all those Carl Saganisms that make us look at the night sky and nod enthusiastically at the Big Dipper. But it is also a learning game, generous of spirit, playful and encouraging.
It’s Groundhog Day in an astronaut’s suit. You are sent back in time to the campfire, for another 20 minutes of exploring, then another and another. But with that supernova you are reborn into a seemingly endless cycle. You’re a space pilot sitting by a campfire next to your spaceship, and you have 20 minutes to explore the solar system, before the sun explodes in a white-hot ball. For a story about everyone dying, Outer Wilds is full of enthusiasm and hope.
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