You also don’t need to collect any items. For one, you’ll fly through a tangle of tornadoes on Giant’s Deep that are periodically thrusting the planet’s islands into orbit, and on Brittle Hollow, you’ll follow a precarious trail of gravity crystals along the underside of the planet’s exposed equator. You don’t have to fight any enemies or level up-a tacit acknowledgement on the game’s part that the galaxy’s destruction can’t be prevented through brute force, only through the fearless act of discovery. But think of the solar system’s terminal diagnosis as less of an ending than a chance at a fresh beginning: carte blanche to try just about anything.Įven if there’s only one real way to “beat” it, there’s no wrong way to play Outer Wilds, and no barriers in your way. You’ll hear a sonic boom and, if you’re facing the right way, see a universe-engulfing tide of crackling blue energy coming your way, resetting the time loop and providing a fairly substantial (though never obtrusive) endgame, one in which you must find a way to prevent your sun from going supernova. Should you survive for a consecutive 22 minutes, you’ll come across that second explosion.
#OUTER WILDS BRITTLE HOLLOW FULL#
Despite taking place in a comparatively small six-planet solar system, the game’s open-galaxy design feels full of infinite possibilities, each excursion as fresh and exciting as the last, even hours in. This is a game so beautiful that you might spend hours taking in the sights before you start focusing on its loose, nonlinear plot. The understated appeal of the smartly designed Outer Wilds stems from its abundance of deliberate details scattered across its worlds, ever-nudging you toward understanding how various scientific phenomenon operate. And even then, its significance won’t become apparent until you’ve blasted off from your home planet and flown yourself out there to get a better look at the blast. As a result of this open-world space exploration game’s time-looping mechanic, one of those explosions is the first thing you’ll see every time you reawaken, but it’s so far off in the distance-just a brief flash of rippling orange in outer space that’s overshadowed by the surface of a massive green planetoid-that it might take a few cycles before you actually notice it. Mobius Digital’s Outer Wilds begins and ends with a quietly spectacular explosion.
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