The WhatsNext verdict
For Players who enjoy piecing together a mystery through exploration and discovery: Explore a miniature solar system, follow clues left by an ancient civilization, and use what you learn to uncover how its time loop works. Tradeoff: Progress depends on your own discoveries, so there are few conventional upgrades or quest markers to guide you.
What it does best
puzzle
simulator
science fiction
open world
The setup
What you are walking into
Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and travels across their solar system to get to the bottom of its mysteries by exploring the cosmos and gathering the knowledge hidden within each of the system's planets, left behind by another civilization in the distant past.
Where it lives
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