We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Its secrets are scattered among a whirling orrery of planets, which I probe and investigate. Likewise, purely as a piece of game design, its many marvels are like disparate fragments, difficult to comprehend in the whole, but undoubtedly greater than the sum of their parts. At its core, this is an adventure game, but it defies so simple a classification, mixing itself up with a powerful narrative, satisfying physical challenges and fantastical meta-puzzles. It eschews cheap violence and sprawling systems such as upgrade trees and stats-based progress.

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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Outer Wilds is a singular, beautiful game that has to be experienced for yourself. And, as a quick note, this write-up will remain spoiler-free, as I want more people to find all these fantastic discoveries on their own.
The game features the player character exploring a solar system stuck in a minute time loop , which ends as the sun goes supernova. The player continually repeats this cycle by gaining knowledge, which is retained, that can help them on later loops. The game received critical acclaim and won several awards, including for game of the year.