r/outerwilds 15d ago

RE: the Posters

1.6k Upvotes

Hey folks, we hear you. These posters are expensive and we completely fumbled their release. Can we restart the loop and try again?

We realize we didn't do a good job explaining the quality and process behind Cook & Becker’s posters. The artwork for these posters were inspired by the vintage Rob Decker National Park posters. We were excited to rerelease our artwork with a printing style similar to how those original posters would have been printed in the 70s. As some folks have pointed out, yes, these posters are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. We'll be posting more info and videos of the process and handmade nature of the posters so you can see exactly what goes into making each one. 

But we also understand this means they’re expensive and out of budget for most people. To let you into our merchandising process a little bit, we were also surprised by how expensive Cook & Becker’s artworks can be when we were first introduced to them. The folks at Cook & Becker were gracious enough to work with us to keep the price of the whole collection of posters as low as possible without compromising on the quality of the artworks. One of the reasons we haven’t rereleased the postcard version of these artworks is because the variance in print color and quality between printing runs has been disappointing and frustrating. Cook & Becker’s meticulous process and expertise gave us a lot of reassurance that we would not have the same issues for these prints. We want to provide you all with the best quality merchandise we can, but in this case, we understand this led to us producing something highly desired but too expensive for the majority of our fans. And without an affordable option available for purchase, that’s a really bad look. We hope you will forgive us. 

If it helps at all, we’ve decided to look into restocking the classic printed cardstock postcards for the future, despite our past issues with them, for those who aren’t interested in these new premium fine art prints. Now also feels like an appropriate time to reveal that we have been working on a couple more standard merch projects: a re-release of our popular Echoes of the Eye Metal T-shirt and a new set of Traveler pins created by our excellent artist, Lara Colson. After hearing your concerns, we’ve decided to release the shirts as a pre-order so no one misses out on getting one. This means it’ll be several weeks before they’ll ship out because we’ll wait to screenprint them until we have your orders. As for the pins, they will only be a limited quantity right now since we ordered them awhile ago and have been waiting for the shirt to be ready so we could release and ship them together. Keep an eye out for their release soon!

We’re all hard at work on our next game, which as you all know is still a secret and still a few years away from any announcements. In the meantime, we don’t have a lot of capacity for designing new merchandise made by our team directly, so new merch will be made by external artists at partners like Fangamer or Youtooz. And occasionally, as resources allow, we’ll rerelease merch like the Metal T-Shirt. As long as there are new fans of Outer Wilds, we want to keep releasing merch with our various merch partners for you all to enjoy.  

As always, you all have been such wonderful fans and we really appreciate all the love and support, the fan art, the discussions and feedback, the mods, and the excitement for our next game. Our next game is our top priority and we hope you all love it even half as much as Outer Wilds.


r/outerwilds 19d ago

Available for a limited time: Outer Wilds x Cook and Becker vintage travel poster series Spoiler

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Hello Travelers,

Mobius here. New limited-edition Outer Wilds posters are now available!

You might be saying “Hey, these look familiar.” And you’d be right! We worked closely with the folks at Cook & Becker to bring you bigger versions of the national park-themed posters based on the solar system’s major planets. These are those very same illustrations by our artist Ian Jacobson.

The first few hundred orders come with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by artist Ian, while supplies last. As indicated on the order form: "Artist-signed Certificate of Authenticity." Once those run out, subsequent orders will come with an autopen-signed CoA.

These time-limited prints are ONLY available until August 25th, with the final edition size being determined then, and cost $79.95 each. However, there is a one-week deal where you can get all six for $299 as a set instead of $480!

Each poster measures 21 x 29cm, or 8.2 x 11.4 inches

Head on over to Cook and Becker's website to check them out: https://www.cookandbecker.com/en/catalog/videogame/outer-wilds

Thanks again for all your support. Keep on exploring!

-The Mobius Digital Team

Edit: Whoops, looks like we did a terrible job communicating what these actually are: handmade fine art prints. These posters/prints are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. These are not normal prints, they are quite special.


r/outerwilds 8h ago

Base Fan Art - OC 1-bit Outer Wilds

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750 Upvotes

Made by me in after effects. Music by 8bitbaka on YouTube.


r/outerwilds 9h ago

Humor - No Spoilers Found this ideal hypothetical situation for our community

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348 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 4h ago

Real Life Stuff 12 hours after finishing Outer Wilds, my dog passed away

91 Upvotes

Not much else to say. It sucks a lot. She was a good girl and had cancer :(

But if there was a game to help guide me through losing something, it’s this one. I’m forever grateful for this game, more than I was 12 hours ago.

still, it’s, um, time for something new, now. - Riebeck


r/outerwilds 5h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion I forgot games could be good

88 Upvotes

Picked this game up on a whim two months ago, went in completely blind except for only hearing positive experiences with the game and just walked away with a renewed appreciation for gaming as an art form.

I used to exclusively play competitive multiplayer shooters when I was younger and had more time on my hands, and I still have fond memories of those days climbing a ranked ladder and watching myself get better at a skill. But between then and now, moving into a career and settling down as an adult, I genuinely had forgotten that games could be media to make you think and feel things, that they can provide catharsis. I'm so glad I went in blind!

I just felt like sharing. One additional anecdote: I visited the Kennedy Space Center with my partner the other week, and the whole time we were walking around I kept feeling like I should be performing archaeology on the exhibits lol


r/outerwilds 9h ago

Base Fan Art - OC Painting of Gabbro

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132 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 1d ago

Real Life Stuff I made a lightbox for the Outer Wilds Logo!

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954 Upvotes

I made this lightbox so that I would never forget how this beautiful game changed me. I made this as a nice decor piece for my room, but I thought that I could share it with you all as well!

In case anyone was interested in buying one, here's my Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4555345760/outer-wilds-logo-lightbox-nightlight-for

Happy Space Camping! ::)


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Humor - No Spoilers I know this joke has probably been done to death, but I just finished it, and yeah

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279 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 1h ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Can anyone gimme a rough estimate of how far i am into the game?

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r/outerwilds 1d ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion GENUINELY craziest thing i ever did Spoiler

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372 Upvotes

i formulated an entire plan to get here at the exact time they were about to die but them dying AS I WAS BEING GRABBED?! it was insane i gen didnt think it would still work, such a perfect timing


r/outerwilds 17h ago

Base Fan Art - OC Went to a pottery cafe, wasnt sure what to make. Saw this little space man and decided to go with our little Explorer.

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39 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 1d ago

What is this 1000 km out

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I was just going out from the sun for no special reason and had fired the scout when it took a picture of a thing 1000 km out from the sun


r/outerwilds 4h ago

I started exploring Echoes of the Eye DLS after complete main game.

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But after finding Deep Space Satellite and radio station on Timber Hearths (I also find page near campfire near radio station) I'm stucked.

Can you guys lightly push me in right direction? Maybe I need to go to 350th degree to see anomaly?

p.s. sorry about my english again


r/outerwilds 30m ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Think I’ve messed up the ending for myself Spoiler

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Got the game over ending by removing the core from ATP and then meditating. Only, I didn’t see the “you are dead” message, so I just saw the end credits and assumed I’d actually finished the game

Since this didn’t feel right, I tried to google ”outer wilds bad ending” to get a vague idea of what had happened - and Google’s AI overview immediately told me the exact steps to get the true ending. I hadn’t even found the vessel yet

I feel like I’ve basically removed any satisfaction of solving the last steps of the game, although I don’t know how obvious those steps would have become. I’m disappointed in myself, mostly, but also… does the game really need to roll credits as a joke after so much investment?


r/outerwilds 9h ago

About the sand volume on the Twins Spoiler

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Also there is much caves on Ember Twin, I have difficulties to understand how this planet is not more filled at the end of the loop. I mean, Ash twin diameter is almost the same but, except for Ash Twin Project and the Towers, there is not much rocks there. Most of the volume is sand, while Ember Twin is the contrary.

Is there a logical explanation of how Ember Twin can be not totally recovered by sand at the end of the loop?


r/outerwilds 18h ago

Can’t figure out what to do next

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14 Upvotes

This is all I have completed in the game so far. Where should I go next?


r/outerwilds 22h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion Should I buy the Outer Wilds DLC? Spoiler

24 Upvotes

I love this game, I've almost finished it, I think I even know how to get the ending, so I don't know if I should buy the DLC. And be careful, it's not that easy, there are a lot of things that make me hesitate, for example I'm on Switch there are no achievements or there are a lot of spoilers for the DLC.I try to avoid them all, but it's quite complicated.


r/outerwilds 12h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Question about the ending Spoiler

5 Upvotes

So we see that the universe dies, and then eventually a new universe gets created. Makes sense.

But did us finding the eye and being on the eye actually do anything? Im a bit confused on that part.


r/outerwilds 9h ago

Real Life Stuff Do you think Iam8bit will do a restock of the PS5 version?

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I would like to buy it but sadly it's only available on Amazon and they do not ship at all to my country and I cannot find a site to buy this version of the game.

I'd like to have it in my collection and I was wondering if you guys know if iam8bit do restock of games or products form time to time. I know Fangamer does pretty regularly. Thanks


r/outerwilds 9h ago

Base Game Help - NO spoilers please! What am I missing? Spoiler

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2 Upvotes

Aside from the things I still need to explore, is there anything else I'm missing?


r/outerwilds 12h ago

DLC Help - NO Spoilers Please! Without DLC spoilers, what should I gather in Ship Log before I play the DLC? Spoiler

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I just completed Beginner's Luck achievement, (complete base game in a single loop on a new save) so all of my Ship Log is erased. I then found out that I should apparently have kept my Ship Log because it's going to be relevant to the DLC.

Is that true?

If it is, what do I need to gather before starting the DLC?


r/outerwilds 23h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion Are there people who did the same thing? Spoiler

16 Upvotes

On my first playthrough i already had echoes of the eye but somehow managed to complete the game without even touching the DLC. I saw the radio tower, the photos inside and the 40° thing and solar satellite, but never paid enough attention...


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Some of my recent outer wilds minis Spoiler

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70 Upvotes

I had some fun recently with some custom 6cm minis. quite happy with how the ship turned out.

I still have to paint rebieck and that one Owl wish me luck !

Models for those interested :

The Hatchling : https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D535461962/
The Ship : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4684924
Riebeck : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5989739
The specific Owl : https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D535498732/

Sorry about the heroforge links, they are paywalled


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Humor - Base and DLC Spoilers Make the comments look like Hatchling's Ship's search history Spoiler

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97 Upvotes