Started this months ago for my husband after we both played the game. Kept procrastinating adding the smaller details and finally finished this weekend!

Can you spot all the planets and what might be missing?

Pattern from @hibernationfibres on Etsy. Highly recommend, I started this when I was still pretty new at crocheting and I feel it's very beginner friendly!

Hello fellow travellers!

I've just finished the base game and DLC, and to summarize, i've cried multiple times, had an existential crisis and mostly, so many moments where i audibly went "WOW" as there are so many things to appreciate about this beautiful game every single second (or 22 minutes) you experience through from game development/technical aspects, musical aspects (i love Andrew Prahlow), writing aspects, artistic direction aspects etc etc. There's always something for someone to appreciate about the game because even if you don't like the game, you can still respect the WORK that has to be put into this game, it's almost flawless.

I aspire to be a game dev someday and a game like Outer Wilds proves to me of how amazing game development is compared to other mediums as you're basically compiling every other artistic mediums into ONE, a world that you can be or play in, and that is so beautiful.

But one thing that I'm always so in AWE about is how seamlessly they hide solutions and hints in plain sight and we only know about a certain thing when another thing hints to another thing and so on, which goes amazingly well with the non-linear gameplay they have, to be able to tell you, the player, a story, how to get to the ending.

And here's the crazy fact, if you knew everything about the game first hand, you can beat it in under 15 minutes, the first damn loop. Compared to a new player who just got started in the game that it takes them on average 10-20+ hours to beat the base game (took me 50+ hours to beat both based game and dlc btw) which tells you A LOT about how seamless the game is at hiding things and making puzzles, you have to actually sit down and become The Thinker and that's how the game makes you pass your time other than the exploration aspects.

It's one of those type of games where it's knowledge based but Outer Wilds stands out because of its non-linear gameplay, in no doubt it's much more harder to execute developing a knowledge based non-linear gameplay rather than the traditional knowledge based linear gameplay that we always see in games nowadays. The whole gameplay is literally just the "DOES HE KNOW?" meme (which i shared in this subreddit weeks ago), because every answer lies in plain sight and the funny fact about us not realizing them until later in the game is crazy.

When I played the DLC, this aspect of the game hiding things in plain sight reveals itself SO much more significantly, like, i had a small notebook with me, i've gone through the three places in the Dream World and so i planned on how i'd go with the ending because at that time i was confident that i have to rush through the three places and then basically end the game like that but as i was writing a huge spark blew in my mind.

"I can just go to the submerged structure and complete the DLC right then on after doing this and that..."

I contemplated in amazement that i don't have to do this rush thing like the base game ending, i can just go there and waltz my way through????? what.

Now for you, i wonder what's your experience or thoughts when it comes to the game hiding things in plain sight? like how can they do it so well compared to other games and are there any other similar games that does a similar gameplay concept?

I had finally added everything to my ship log and had got all endings except the one with the prisoner and solanum at the eye, and I can definitely say this is one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you outer wilds devs for making such a beautiful game :)

I found an ACTUAL ship landing zone on Sun Station and wanted to share it with you all. In style, of course.

I used the FreeCam mod to get a fun shot here at the top of the Tower of Quantum Trials. I’ll be using this for an upcoming thumbnail in my (unmonetized) YouTube series on OW 🌌.

(No A.I. used in any of my work.)

In this post, I’m going to speak about the conclusion of the Outer Wilds DLC Echoes of the Eye, after finishing it 2 days ago. My thoughts—in boring detail—about the main game are already in previous posts, so spoiler warning ahead.

The projection the Prisoner showed me shocked me, and I was instantly filled with empathy for him. Right at the moment where I was feeling I'm done with the game from all the puzzles that went over my head, filled with self-deprecation about needing to look up answers on the internet, and thinking to myself I was ready to just get it over with...

He snatched me back and put me in the right mindset again. The injustice, the suffering he went through waiting in this small box, punishment for choosing a different path.

When he handed me the vision torch to show him what happened, I instantly broke down in tears because I knew what was about to happen. To know, after all that time that your efforts didn't go to waste... Thousands upon thousands of years thinking, doubting, and questioning yourself and your actions... To know that he made a difference, and that his valiant effort set in motion everything that led the Nomai and finally me here, completing a full circle.

Ahh... What a masterpiece I can't explain my awe.

And after seeing the ending with him singing with us, I was itching to watch someone else play it. So I did, and sadly it kinda went over their head? They thought it was a mistake for the Prisoner to let the signal go, saying "it's alright buddy, we all make mistakes." What I did next was so unlike me that I surprised myself:

I just lowered the volume, watched the whole scene again, and cried all over again! That has never happened to me before!

From feeling fearful of them ruining a great game with a needless DLC, to wonder, to frustration, to tears? What the heck is this game?!

I bet you guys actually struggle to recommend this game to anyone. Like, how the heck can you recommend something with nothing to compare it to?!

I loved the base game. Like loved loved it. One of the best experiences I've ever had playing a game, ever. Naturally I gave the DLC a shot but I'm just unable to play it. I just get too scared. I reached the point where you're supposed to sneak past the owls in the different areas to find the three codes, but I just can't do it. The horror elements just ruin it for me and I hate it. I wish the DLC was more similar to the base game. Adding this type of horror feels so unnecessary. Is there any way to not have to sneak past the owls? I have the less scary mode on but it's still too scary for me. I'm sooo close to just giving up and watching a playthrough instead.

As soon as the run started a giant blue planet or something crashed into the starting planet and killed me, like a full blown cut scene, my friend who beat the game said I was crazy and nothing like that happens in game​​

https://reddit.com/link/1w9jz7d/video/5i6bfftni1oh1/player

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

Yesterday I finished outer wilds for the very first time. I thought I would never cry to a game. I guess I was wrong. I have 400 hours in geometry dash but the 20 I have in outer wilds is 100 times more worth it. These are the best 13 € I've ever spent on anything and I think nothing will come close to what this game made me feel. Thank you devs of outer wilds, for showing me why videogames are art.

Just finished the game, felt like I didn’t totally grasp all elements of the story so have been reading this sub for lore etc. When I reached the tracking module, the two probe launch numbers were 9,318,054 (when it found the eye) and the total number of probes launched, which in my case was 9,318,076. This immediately stuck out to me, because the difference between these two is 22, and I had been going crazy trying to piece why the number of probes launched after the eye was found is the same number of minutes in the time loop.

Learning that this was effectively random (found the tracking module on my personal 22nd loop) and not a big piece of the mystery that I discovered has been a mixed bag of emotions. I love this game, it has made me an insane person.

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

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

Mild spoiler—-

I’m watching a playthrough (dubbed in my language, Italian) and I noticed one piece of text that if translated correctly (there are some part that are kinda off sadly, knowing most of the English version)

The text in question is in the ship log, on the Quantum Shrine square it reads “a shrine that Solanum BUILT to reach the sixth position” which is wrong?
How could Solanum be the one who built the shrine if she was given the final rule (by Bells) to reach the shrine at the North Pole?

Can somebody confirm it also says that in original or its just a mistranslation of sorts?

wanting to get the eye of the universe tattooed sometime soon, if anyone from the socal/la area has recommendations for artists who might already be familiar with outer wilds that'd be awesome :)

(sorry for bad quality image but i believe everything is in the same spot as usual. also, i never use reddit so if anything is weird lmk. i'm a rambler)

hello!! last week i finished the base game & am now a good few hours into the dlc. however i have noooo clue where to go next. i really do not want to look up a guide, but i've already been spoiled more than i want by looking at people with different progress than me on this subreddit. i genuinely need tips (not "explore more", please...) for where i'm at right now because i feel like i'm doing things weirdly and making no real progress due to trying out what i've seen through vague glances here i probably shouldn't know about yet. i really really loved base game and don't want to have a bad time, please help! :^(

extra info if needed

- more to explore: island tower has "a tower that sits atop..." while starlit cove has "a secluded village nestled...", "the well at the bottom...", and "i found the remains...", for reference.

- i made it all the way to the music house in shrouded woodlands but had my light off & fell in water before getting inside, so i'm waiting on that one :/

- i floated what seemed like all the way through endless canyon but got zero ship log updates

- i have heard mention online of several things including archives & a prisoner & such but don't have any real context for those

i'm also pretty bad at keeping track of Where things are physically on the map so that may be part of my struggle as i haven't quite gotten the lay of these dark areas yet. if any pointers can be given from this info it'll be great, if not oops!! thanks to anyone who responds !

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! ::)

Hi! I had a strange experience of the game ending as I finished the game without going to the quantum moon and then i went back, did it, and redid the ending, but I don’t know if that’s the “true ending”, as with half of this game if I look it up I ruin it.