#GAMES LIKE OUTER WILDS FULL#
Despite the tiny planetoids, most are jammed full of things to discover and mysteries to ruminate on.
The system itself, instead of being hundreds of thousands (or millions) of kilometers, is only tens of kilometers. The planets themselves are super small: almost Little Prince small. The space that Outer Wilds occupies is significantly smaller, and ironically, this allows for a more hand crafted experience than larger space exploration games (like Elite Dangerous), allowing the player to interact with things in a more meaningful way. This resets with the time loop-as everything else does-so you can see these impressive feats over and over again as you try to dig through the mysteries of whatever planetoid you may currently be on.
One planet has perpetual storms, while another planet dumps the contents of its sandy surface onto another planet, filling it up with sand. There are wondrous things to see and explore. Everything out there is trying to kill you: from large angler-type fish that will swallow your ship whole to falling sand and lava. I’ve flown my ship into the system’s star so many times, or ran out of oxygen while doing some sort of extra vehicular activity on so many occasions that it feels like I wouldn’t have been a great space explorer without the time loop. And there are so many ways to die in Outer Wilds. You wake back up in your sleeping bag on your home planetoid of Hearthstone to live through the cycle again-unless you die prematurely, that is. Oh yeah, did I mention you’re stuck in a time loop? In fact, that’s the only thing that’s really persistent for each time loop. Your ship retains the logs of the various places you’ve encountered, as well as keeping the clues of the places you haven’t yet found. There is a mystery to solve at the heart of the game, but even the nature of that mystery is not revealed to you without serious searching. Outer Wilds takes the “doesn’t hold your hand” approach and puts it up almost to its full intensity. There’s a story to be found, if you dig around to find it. Even solving the apparent mystery of your circumstances is left to the discretion of the player. But after that, what you do and how you approach it is up to you. The beginning of the game has you running around in a sort of tutorial with the ultimate goal of getting your launch codes. There aren’t exactly missions and waypoints in Outer Wilds. On top of this, it’s one of my favorites despite how “small” it is: instead of exploring the vastness of space, you are limited to exploring one system and its few planetoids-all of which you can land on and fully explore. I admit, despite the buzz it was generating, I didn’t know much about Outer Wilds before I got my hands on it, but it has turned into one of my favorite space exploration games. Space is huge, and with its vastness there is potential for so many amazing, weird, or scary stories whose only limitations are often the cleverness of the writers. Vessels look like they’re made by children in their basements, constructed from wood and other slapped together objects. But you’re not human: you’re a pointy-eared spacefaring being that has access to technology that looks like it has no business leaving any planetary atmosphere. In the story it’s your first day as an astronaut. Outer Wilds is a first person space exploration game.
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