Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
The key thing to the game is it’s a metroidvania, but your upgrades are knowledge. If you don’t know how to do something, look somewhere else for more information.
Also, don’t just land on a planet and wander around. You’re wasting your time. Fly around them and look for something interesting and land there. Most of the time it’ll lead to you learning something new. If it doesn’t, try again next time.
The game starts slow, because you don’t know what’s going on. It ramps up pretty quickly though. You just need a few points of interest first. Literally just go anywhere and find a structure or something and start exploring. Everything is incredibly intentional. There’s almost nothing to gain where it doesn’t look like there’s something, so go where there’s a structure or something that looks intentional.
The thing about outer wilds is that you can explore it in any order you want.
The only thing stopping you from doing certain things is just the knowledge. There’s no “you have to beat this boss so that part of the map opens”. If you know how to do it, you can do it.
If you find a part challenging, you can go explore another place, it may give you information that would help you in the part you couldn’t explore before.
I have tried to play this game thrice, and never made it more than 45 minutes in.
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To the crust planet. Then trying to fly off into the void before getting bored
I know people love it, but i have not figured that part out after two hours of gameplay. Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong?
The key thing to the game is it’s a metroidvania, but your upgrades are knowledge. If you don’t know how to do something, look somewhere else for more information.
Also, don’t just land on a planet and wander around. You’re wasting your time. Fly around them and look for something interesting and land there. Most of the time it’ll lead to you learning something new. If it doesn’t, try again next time.
The game starts slow, because you don’t know what’s going on. It ramps up pretty quickly though. You just need a few points of interest first. Literally just go anywhere and find a structure or something and start exploring. Everything is incredibly intentional. There’s almost nothing to gain where it doesn’t look like there’s something, so go where there’s a structure or something that looks intentional.
You lack context.
The blue explosion you see at the start. Go there. See what you can find.
The thing about outer wilds is that you can explore it in any order you want.
The only thing stopping you from doing certain things is just the knowledge. There’s no “you have to beat this boss so that part of the map opens”. If you know how to do it, you can do it.
If you find a part challenging, you can go explore another place, it may give you information that would help you in the part you couldn’t explore before.