As you come across clues and discoveries, they're recorded in a useful log aboard your ship. Sitting on top of a peak and watching the sun die out is oddly soothing after uneventful expeditions, letting you reflect on your misguided choices and realign yourself for the next journey.Įxploration and the knowledge you obtain with it is the only way to progress through Outer Wilds. Other times it's just as poignant to accept an uneventful run and just embrace the gorgeous scenery around you. It's satisfying to have a productive run that unlocks multiple new threads for you to follow up on in your next attempt, pushing you to new planets to explore and narrative puzzles to solve. The somber tune that plays moments before the light disappears from the solar system signals your death, but it's also an indicator of how much you might have discovered in that one life. With each new run you can collect more pieces of Outer Wilds' narrative puzzle, slowly piecing together what might be causing the rapid decline of your neighborhood star, before embracing each inevitable death.ĭeath isn't detrimental in a traditional sense in Outer Wilds. Your exploration is restricted by a celestial ticking time bomb: The sun at the center of the solar system implodes after 22 minutes and sends you back to the same dreamy campsite on your home planet to start this Groundhog Day loop again. Dilapidated architecture from a forgotten age can be found on most planet surfaces, with translatable foreign texts allowing you to piece together the mystery of where these civilizations are today.
With suggestions that other life existed in this solar system before you, you're tasked with finding evidence to support that claim. Armed with nothing more than a spacesuit, a nifty language translator, and tools for surveying anything from distress signals to harmful invisible gases, you're left to take flight in your crudely constructed spaceship and venture off in any direction. Just where did we come from? Have there been others before us? And if so, where are they now? These questions drive you to explore the solar system you're in, risking your life in search of answers. Nestled in the cozy forests of a small planet called Timber Hearth, you and your brethren contemplate the same questions that you've likely thought of before. You play as a citizen of a race of four-eyed, jolly-looking aliens, and you have been selected as the next of your kin to take to the stars. These questions lead you on unforgettable adventures in which each piece of the story you unearth feels as rewarding as the last. However, it doesn't take long for your expectations of Outer Wilds to be completely flipped on their head, giving way to captivating mysteries to solve and difficult questions surrounding mortality to confront. The brevity of traveling through this handcrafted collection of areas to explore might seem strange at first-especially when the opening minutes of Outer Wilds place such a heavy emphasis on the importance of your mission to document the unknown. Flying from one planet to the next takes a matter of seconds, making it easy to ping pong around the game's singular solar system. For a game about interplanetary exploration, Outer Wilds can often feel incredibly small.
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