About Outer Wilds game
Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by
Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive for Microsoft Windows,
Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. In the game, the player-character finds themselves
on a planet with only 22 minutes before the local sun goes supernova and kills
them. The player continually repeats this 22-minute cycle by learning details that
can help alter the outcome on later playthroughs. It received universal acclaim
and won several awards, including for game of the year.
Outer Wilds Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Win 7 64
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8GHz / AMD FX-4350
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
- System Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 8 GB Hard drive space
- DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card
Outer Wilds Recommended Requirements:
- OS: Win 10 64
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 6-Core 2.8GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6GHz
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
- System Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 8 GB Hard drive space
Gameplay:
In Outer Wilds, the player-character is an astronaut who
starts out camping on a planet near their space ship. Within 22 minutes of game
time, the local sun will go supernova, ending the game, though the game will
restart at the same point. Thus, the player is encouraged to explore the local
solar system (referred to somewhat inaccurately as a "quirky and condensed
galaxy") to learn how the astronaut got there, why the sun will go nova,
the secrets of the Nomai, the alien race that had built this galaxy, and other
information and secrets that can be used on the subsequent replays of the game
to explore further. For example, in order to use the ship, the player must
guide the astronaut to a local observatory, where the launch codes are located.
Once the player has done this once in one playthrough, that information will
not change in subsequent ones, so on the next playthrough, the player can
bypass the observatory and immediately launch the ship with the known codes.
Though the galaxy repeats the same 22 minutes each time the player starts the
game, the galaxy will change over the course of that period, making some parts
of planets accessible only at certain times; one example is a pair of planets
orbiting so close to each other that sand from one planet is funnelled over to
cover the other planet, making its surface inaccessible later in the 22 minute
period.
The player-character has health and oxygen meters, which are
replenished when the character returns to the ship. If the character's health
or oxygen should run out, they will die, but respawn back on the home planet.
Outer Wilds Official Trailer
Outer Wilds Screenshots
Outer Wilds Official Website
https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html
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Outer Wilds Official Website
https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html
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Plot:
The Player takes the role of an alien space explorer
preparing for their first solo flight. After being involuntarily paired with a
Nomai statue on their home planet, the Player discovers they are trapped in a
22-minute time loop, with every loop resetting on the Player's death or the
local sun exploding in a supernova. This loop has been compared to the time
loop in Groundhog Day. In order to solve this mystery, the Player begins
exploring the solar system, uncovering artifacts and ruins left behind by the
Nomai, an ancient and mysterious race that had once colonized the system.
The Player eventually learns that the Nomai were obsessed
with finding the "Eye of the Universe", a massive quantum anomaly
which is supposedly older than the universe itself. Curious to find out what
was held within the Eye, but having lost its signal, the Nomai built an orbital
cannon to launch probes into the outer edges of the star system to find the
Eye. In addition, they developed the Ash Twin Project, which leveraged their
mastery of quantum physics to send information 22 minutes into the past via
statues like the one the Player was paired with so they could more accurately
predict the location of the Eye. However, the Nomai themselves were never able
to achieve the full potential of the Ash Twin Project since sending information
into the past would require a vast amount of energy that only a supernova could
produce and they died out before they could figure out a way to artificially
induce one. This explains why the Player is trapped in the 22-minute loop,
since the supernova activates the Ash Twin Project, sending all of the
information the Player learned back to their past self.
Armed with this knowledge, the Player is able to discover
the coordinates of the Eye and repairs a derelict Nomai vessel, warping to the
Eye's location. Upon entering the Eye, the Player encounters quantum versions
of the various characters they had befriended in their travels, and working
together, they create a Big Bang, giving rise to a new universe. The full completion
ending adds a scene showing that intelligent life begins to develop 14.3
billion years after the creation of the new universe.
Development:
Outer Wilds began as Alex Beachum's USC Interactive Media
& Games Division master's thesis and grew into a full-production commercial
release. He started the project in late 2012 for his yearlong thesis and
"Advanced Game Project" assignment. Beachum had previously made a
three-dimensional platformer out of Lego bricks as a kid, and was uninterested
in a career in games until applying to the Interactive Media program.
Beachum's original ideas were to recreate the Apollo 13 and
2001: A Space Odyssey "spirit of space exploration" in an
uncontrollable environment, and to make an objective-less open world game where
exploration would satiate the player's questions without feeling
"aimless". Beachum took cues from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker's non-player characters that would tell tales of distant lands as to
entice the player to explore those areas for themselves. The game heavily
employs a camping motif, reflecting Beachum's personal interest in backpacking
while also emphasizing that the player-character is far from his home and alone
in this galaxy. While journalists have compared Outer Wilds' time loop
mechanics to that of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Beachum notes that
these mechanics are used in Outer Wilds primarily "to allow the creation
of large-scale dynamic systems" as opposed to "playing around with
causality" as in Majora's Mask.
The original development team members were University of
Southern California, Laguna College of Art and Design, and Atlantic University
College students. Beachum's team started by working with "paper
prototypes" and a "tabletop role-playing session" to brainstorm
a narrative. The team built the game in the Unity3D game engine. They later
wrote the game as a text adventure in Processing. After Beachum's graduation,
the project hired members full-time to work towards a commercial release, with
Beachum as creative director.
As of March 2015, the game was in alpha release and
available for free download from the developer's site. The development team
were writing a central conceit into the game.
Actor Masi Oka, who has had previous experience as a programmer
and started the studio Mobius Digital to develop mobile games, had seen the
demo of Outer Wilds during a demo day for the USC Interactive Media & Games
groups. Oka saw the opportunity to expand his team and hired the entire team
behind the game into his studio to help bring the title to development. The
game became the first title to be supported on the new video game-centric
crowdfunding site, Fig, launched in August 2015.
In March 2018, Mobius announced it had received funding
support from publisher Annapurna Interactive, which bought out the investment
and rights from Fig, and that the game was planned for release in 2018. Mobius
later announced plans in June 2018 to release the game at launch for the Xbox
One alongside the computer platforms. In December 2018, it was announced that
the game's release would be delayed until 2019.
In May 2019, Mobius announced that the game's release for
Windows users will be a timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store, in exchanged
for additional financial support. As it was originally announced that Fig
backers would have received redemption keys on Steam for the game, some backers
complained about the change; Linux users noted that as the Epic Games Store
does not have a Linux-compatible front end, the change left them without any
option.
Outer Wilds was released on Xbox One on 29 May 2019, with a
Windows version being released the following day. A PlayStation 4 version was
later released on 15 October 2019, with releases on other platforms being
expected at a later date.
Reception:
At the 2015 GDC Independent Games Festival, Outer Wilds won
in the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Design categories. It was
an honorable mention in the Excellence in Narrative and Nuovo Award categories.
The game was still in alpha release at this point.
On Metacritic, Outer Wilds achieved an aggregate score of 85
out of 100, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
The game was listed as one of the Best Games of 2019 by The
New Yorker & The Washington Post, it was awarded Best Adventure Game by IGN
& PC Gamer. It was awarded the overall Game of The Year for 2019 by
Polygon, Eurogamer, The Guardian & Giant Bomb.
Polygon and Paste also featured it on their "best games
of the decade" lists.
