
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.
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牛逼
This is a really good game, no monsters, pure exploration and an absolute poetic world, 10/10 easy, i've never played a game that made me at the same time loose my mind and be completely in love with it
Buy the game.
Good game. Went into it looking at the 95% positive ratings and expected too much. 8/10
玩之前不要看任何关于这个游戏的剧透!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Джетпак очень сильно лагает, ходишь туда сюда секреты ищешь. Что тут могло кому то "взгляд на жизнь" изменить
forced myself to play this game just to get a lackluster ending i don't appreciate, the music is really good though
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[h1] Outer Wilds – Some Things Can Only Be Discovered Once [/h1] [i] A detailed review of Outer Wilds [/i] [hr][/hr] [h2] The Game That Almost Lost Me [/h2] I'm going to be honest with you. The first hours, I was lost. Genuinely lost — not in an exciting way, just uncertain about what the game even wanted from me. No objectives, no clear direction, no obvious reason to go one way rather than another. I kept waiting for something to click. For a while, nothing did. [hr][/hr] [h2] Unlearning How to Play [/h2] At some point, I stopped waiting for the game to give me a direction. I started actually [b]looking[/b] at things. Listening. Reading. Following threads not because a quest marker told me to, but because something felt strange and I wanted to understand why. And somewhere in that shift, I realized what Outer Wilds actually is. Your only tool is your [b]curiosity[/b]. Your only form of progress is [b]what you understand[/b] — what you [i]learn[/i] about this world, and the civilization that once lived in it. Death isn't failure here. Every loop brings you back to the start with everything you've discovered still intact. You don't get stronger. You get [b]smarter[/b]. That's when the game stopped feeling like nothing — and started feeling like [i]everything.[/i] [hr][/hr] [h2] A Universe Worth Getting Lost In [/h2] As I explored, the atmosphere began to do something I hadn't expected: it moved me. The soundtrack is [b]exceptional[/b] — and that word feels insufficient. Each melody feels crafted to echo the themes running through every corner of this universe: curiosity, solitude, wonder, and something quieter underneath that I couldn't quite name yet. There were moments where the music alone was enough to make me stop moving and just [i]listen.[/i] The world itself is the same way. Every planet has its own logic, its own mysteries, its own sense of scale. The solar system is small enough to feel navigable, yet deep enough to feel genuinely infinite. And the puzzles hidden inside it never ask you to "find the switch" or "use item A on object B" — they ask you to [b]understand how things work[/b], and apply that understanding in ways that feel surprising, logical, and deeply satisfying all at once. The best ones don't feel like puzzles at all. They feel like [b]revelations.[/b] [hr][/hr] [h2] That Moment [/h2] Around fifteen hours in, it happened. I had been assembling a puzzle in the dark for hours — piece by piece, without knowing what the picture was supposed to look like. I had theories. Plenty of them. Some felt close. Most felt wrong. And then, without warning, [b]the image appeared — clear, complete, and devastating in its implications.[/b] I put the controller down. The emotional weight of that moment is something very few works of art — games or otherwise — have ever delivered to me. I'm not going to describe it. Not because I can't, but because doing so would be a disservice to you. What Outer Wilds will give [i]you[/i] specifically, I genuinely can't predict. It depends entirely on what you bring to it, and how deeply you let yourself care about what you find. What I'm certain of is this: [b]the ending will be the same for everyone — but the journey will be different for each person who takes it.[/b] And unlike virtually any other game in existence, [u]Outer Wilds can truly only be experienced once.[/u] You cannot un-know what you discover. That's not a flaw. It might be the whole point. [hr][/hr] [h2] A Word About the Hype [/h2] There is one thing worth saying plainly: [b]the way this game is talked about can actually work against you.[/b] When something is described as a "life-changing experience" before you even press start, the weight of those expectations makes the first hours feel even more alienating than they already are. You're already confused and lost — and now you're also wondering why you're not feeling what everyone promised. [i]Don't go in searching for the transcendent experience people have described.[/i] Go in curious. Let the game find you. When it does, no one will need to tell you anything. [hr][/hr] [h2] Minor Issues [/h2] Outer Wilds is not without its rough edges. It is occasionally possible to get stuck inside environmental geometry — rare, but frustrating when it happens given the loop structure. The opening hours will also genuinely test your patience, especially if you're used to more directive design. This is entirely intentional, but it remains a real barrier for some players, and it would be dishonest not to mention it. Small complaints in the grand scheme of what the game achieves. But they're there. [hr][/hr] [h2] Conclusion [/h2] [b]Outer Wilds[/b] is one of those rare games that changes how you think about what games can be. It is not a game about exploration in the traditional sense. It is a game about [b]understanding[/b] — about piecing together the fragments of a lost world, and discovering in the process something unexpectedly profound about endings, curiosity, and what it means to witness something beautiful even when it cannot last. It won't resonate with everyone. Some players will bounce off its unusual opening and never return — and that's completely valid. But for those who give it the patience and openness it asks for, [b]it offers an experience no other game can replicate, and that you yourself can only truly live once.[/b] Go in with an open mind. Resist every urge to look anything up. [i]Let the universe speak for itself. You won't forget what it tells you.[/i]
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain +1 more
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