Outer WildsĪn open-world, first-person mystery adventure about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop, Outer Wilds plays nothing like The Outer Worlds. It’s also available through Xbox Game Pass.
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The Outer Worlds is available on PlayStation 4, Windows PC (through the Epic Games Store and Windows 10 Store), and Xbox One for $59.99. Here’s what The Outer Worlds looks like (it’s much more photorealistic than Outer Wilds): “Obsidian has pulled off the delicate task of creating an RPG that feels big while still keeping control of the overall scope of the game itself,” we said in our review of The Outer Worlds. The game is not the sprawling, hundred-hour Fallout RPG of the kind Bethesda makes these days it’s more focused. You’re forced to make hard decisions about whom to help or betray, and you battle capitalist megacorporate interests as part of a well-written and tightly realized story. In The Outer Worlds, player choice matters, and you can customize your character to suit your play style. In fact, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the creators of the Fallout series, are the game’s directors. The Outer Worldsĭeveloped by Obsidian Entertainment ( Fallout: New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2), The Outer Worlds is a planet-hopping first-person RPG in the vein of Bethesda’s Fallout franchise. So, in an attempt to alleviate some of that confusion, especially as end-of-year game debates kick in - and the fact that Outer Wilds just recently came out on PlayStation 4 (PC and Xbox One versions debuted in May) - here’s a guide to telling the difference between The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds. Oh, and both games have orange logos, with capital Os that evoke moons or planets.
It also doesn’t help that both games have some Epic Games Store exclusivity (though The Outer Worlds is available from Microsoft’s Windows Store on PC). Each game’s respective Wikipedia entry even starts with the line “Not to be confused with. The first-person, open-world, spacefaring role-playing game is one of the year’s best, and it’s easy to confuse with another first-person, open-world, spacefaring game with a very similar title, Outer Wilds, also one of the year’s best.Įvery video game-focused podcast I listen to and many stories I read about The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds are tinged with some sort of confusion, with writers and gaming personalities carefully reciting the name of each title when discussing them, double-checking that they’ve said the right thing.
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