The WhatsNext verdict
For Players who enjoy choice-driven sci-fi RPGs, sharp corporate satire, and flexible first-person combat: Explore Halcyon, shape your character through consequential choices, and build relationships with a crew amid competing factions and corporate absurdity. Tradeoff: Combat and exploration are less expansive than in larger open-world RPGs, and the satire can be broad.
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shooter
role-playing (rpg)
science fiction
open world
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The Outer Worlds is a new single-player sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
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