Outer Wilds cover art

Outer Wilds

2019 · Mobius Digital · ~22h to finish

The only thing gating progress is knowledge inside your own head, which makes it unspoilable once and unplayable if you look it up.

explorationpuzzleadventurePCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 85
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.6MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$24.99

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Puzzle
6.2
Obscurity
5.6
Learning Curve
3.0
Execution
2.9
Reaction
2.0
Punishment
2.0
Strategy
1.5
Grind
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Obscurity drops 1.2 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Puzzle drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.3 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 8% · ~1hExecution

    flying itself, which the game teaches badly and then never mentions again

    24
  2. 60% · ~12hObscurity

    the place that needs a specific kind of nerve rather than a specific item

    37
  3. 95% · ~20hPuzzle

    the final assembly, which requires three separate discoveries held at once

    26

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Built-in hint system [unsourced]The ship log flags every location that still has something unread in it.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

An open-world archaeology game set in a hand-simulated solar system that ends every twenty-two minutes. You keep nothing between loops except what you have understood.

Where to go from here

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