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The Outer Worlds

Decades after being lost in transit, you awaken from cryosleep in Halcyon, a space colony controlled by corporations and threatened by a conspiracy. You build a character and decide how to navigate conflicts among the colony’s factions. Travel between settlements, stations, and planetary zones aboard your ship. Take on quests, talk your way through disputes, explore locations, or fight human and alien foes with ranged and melee weapons; some situations also allow stealth or other nonviolent solutions. Level up skills and attributes, choose perks, and modify equipment to suit your approach. Recruit companions with their own abilities and personal missions, and optionally accept flaws that impose drawbacks in exchange for an extra perk. Choices can affect quests, faction relationships, companion stories, and the ending.

Awakened from cryosleep in corporate-run Halcyon, shape a space colony’s fate through dialogue, quests, and first-person RPG combat.

Released 23 Oct 2020

82%positive of
28k player reviews
$29.99
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Shape Faction Outcomes

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Recruit a Space Crew

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Resolve Conflicts Through Dialogue

The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

Developed by Obsidian Entertainment · Published by Private Division, Xbox Game Studios

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Common Player Critiques

  1. Repetitive Combat
  2. Unengaging Story
  3. Limited Gear Variety
  4. Repetitive Quests
82%
positive of 28k player reviews
82/100
Metacritic

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Back of the Box

Platforms Windows
Achievements 68
Age ratings
  • ESRB M — Blood and Gore Intense Violence Strong Language
  • PEGI 18 — Violence Bad Language
  • USK 16
  • CRL 18
  • CSRR R — Violence Improper Language
  • ClassInd (Brazil) 16 — Violência Linguagem imprópria
  • FPB 18 — D L V (CI)
  • IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Kekerasan Penggunaan bahasa
  • KGRB 18 — 폭력성 언어의부적절성 약물
  • MDA M18 — Violence
  • NZOFLC R16 — Violence
  • OFLC MA15 — Strong themes and violence
  • Steam (Germany) 18 — Drastische Gewalt Alkohol / Tabak Derbe Sprache
Controller support Xbox
Controller required No
Content notices
  • Blood and Gore
  • Intense Violence
  • Strong Language
  • Age rating for: ESRB
Metacritic 82/100 View on Metacritic
Website Official website

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