Current Events > Outer Wilds was such a revelation in gaming.

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I mean they really captured lightning in a bottle here. To think this was just a student's thesis and they cobbled it together with a very small studio.

So many ideas that feel completely novel, even if they aren't entirely.

• No items, upgrades, levelling system, loot. No skill upgrades. No progress is locked behind any skill or equipment wall. You could technically beat the game without any mad speedrunner skills in 15 minutes, if you just know how. Curating enough knowledge to know how might take you 20-30 hours though. Knowledge is the only currency in the game. Once you get to the end you'll laugh at how incredibly simple it was to beat, and yet it took you so long to put it all together. Has that same sense of wonder that a puzzle box has before you beat it, and the satisfying sense of know-how after you can.
• No map markers, quest logs or waypoint hopping. Just a journal that logs what you found out.
• Somehow the physics feels really, really intuitively correct. Like the way gravity works, how your ship thrusters work, how planets orbit.
• Everything is moving and changing all at the same time. So one of the most interesting aspects isn't just finding a new area, but being there at the right moment in time.
• A story that is both abstract and rich in lore while also being character driven.
• The music. God, there's basically one fucking song and it's so fucking good.

If you haven't played this game, you owe it to yourself to do so.

it's amazing but i never got to beat it because my EGS cloud save messed up on me. i'm pretty sure i was near the ending

I played it back when it was still EGS exclusive on pc. I'd have gotten it on steam otherwise