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oooooo you want to play Outer Wilds and its DLC so bad oooooooo don't look anything up about it, just pick it up and play it ooooooooo
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People who have played the critically acclaimed space, puzzle and adventure game "Outer Wilds™" developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. Available at launch on Windows, Xbox One and Playstation 4.
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i started all of these games at wildly different times, took varying levels of breaks partway through each of them, and then finished all of their achievements in the same two days
i don't know what to do with myself now
#buenos dias short people#tunic was like. i played to maybe halfway. took a months long break#when i picked it back up i didnt remember what i was doing so i started a new file and played like a third#months long break. but this time i resumed the second file and played through to the end#the game is very cryptic but starting over gave me a handle on the mechanics and what was important#outer wilds took like four tries even though i knew it would be good i just wasnt hooked#the game is about knowledge even more than tunic like knowledge is the whole deal and it comes slowly at first#but when it hit it really hit. god damn#please play outer wilds#spyro? um. it was good#i don't know that i took any big breaks from it? there were some but a couple weeks at most#spyro levels are not particularly complex. or content rich. and i really felt that 60 hours#playing the whole trilogy all back to back can really burn you out#its a collectathon you're bound to spend a good while just wandering around to find that one last thing you missed#and i didn't know i could left stick for sparx to point out the nearest gems until like halfway through 2 so that was a time waster#im not saying it wasn't a good game but spyros moveset is like. glide fire charge and you do this for three games#until they throw in random nonspyro playable characters in 3 and they all control really bad and weird. but its still mostly spyro#i could have taken big breaks between each game and it would've been better probably but its a collection im gonna roll to the next one
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she goes wild on my outers until i cry every time i hear a banjo play a D chord
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Thinking about outer wilds. Its a game that really really understands what makes games interesting and unique from other media. It would not work as a movie because playing it yourself and going through the experience yourself is PART of it, its part of what its trying to say and the themes its trying to convey. As a movie it would be a vaguely interesting sci-fi story, but as a game its a beautiful all-encompassing experience. Its special because youre THERE, YOU mirror the nomai. YOU make discoveries YOU connect the dots, YOU found your own joy in the game
#outer wilds#please play outer wilds#it makes total sense that it was originally a game design masters thesis
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outer wilds has the most hilariously vague patch notes
#some of these may as well say 'fixed the thing when the stuff happens!'#'fixed leaving a specific type of item on a certain craft causing the item to disappear under certain circumstances'#one of these literally says [REDACTED]#please play outer wilds
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outer wilds is a game where your experience can be fundamentally changed by spoilers (knowledge about the game IS progression, no matter if you have ever opened the game), so i'll keep it vague
this is the core gameplay of outer wilds.
I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.
#please play outer wilds#my pinned post has a properly spoiler-free video about it if you need further information
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So Disco Elysium is the only game you've ever really liked
I get it! It's a phenomenal game with superb art and writing, and its themes are consistent and deeply explored. It sets a high bar for video games. But there are other really, really fantastic games out there. This is a list that is 100% my own taste of things that aren't necessarily similar, other than the fact that they're really fucking good. (A lot of these are on sale for the Steam Summer Sale until July 11 2024!)
In Stars and Time
In Stars and Time is a time loop game where you play as Siffrin, the rogue of a party at the end of their quest to save the day by defeating the King, who is freezing everybody in time! But something is wrong: every time you die, you loop back to the day before you fight the King. You're the only one who remembers the loops, so it's up to you to figure out why it's happening, and how to break out.
In Stars and Time is a heart-wrenching dive into mental health, friendship, and love. It's about feeling alone, and how awful it is when the people who love you don't notice (and how awful it is when they do). It's about falling deeper and deeper into your worst self and your worst tendencies, and how to come back from it.
The creator also did one of my favorite Disco Elysium comics ever, which is only tangentially relevant but worth mentioning.
Roadwarden
In Roadwarden, you play as the titular Roadwarden for an undeveloped and "wild" part of the kingdom. Monsters roam the forests and roads, and it's your job to keep people safe. On paper, anyway. Your real mission is to find out what is of value in the area, and how to take it from its people. How well you perform this task is up to you. It's an oldschool text-based RPG, and I take a lot of notes by hand when I play.
Roadwarden explores exploitation and industrialization by making you look in the face of your potential victims. You can only learn what your bosses want you to report on by getting close to the residents, after all. There are mysteries to be solved, secrets to be gathered, and hearts to win.
The Longing
The Longing is an adventure-idle game where you play as the solitary servant of a sleeping king. Your task is to wait for him, for four hundred days. Time in the game passes in realtime (for the most part). There are caves to explore, books to be read, and drawings to make.
The Longing is about loneliness and depression. It's about whether or not you decide to stay in that hole, and if you do, what you do with yourself while you're there. Maybe you'll wander. Maybe you'll stare at a wall. Maybe you'll just sleep until it's all over.
Papers, Please
Papers, Please casts you as a newly hired customs officer in a country that is rapidly tightening its borders as its fascist government tightens its fist. This game is stressful. Sometimes you intend to help out the revolutionaries when they asked, but then you got so stressed out trying to make your quota so you can feed your family and pay your bills that you didn't notice the name of the person they were hoping to contact while going through their papers. Sometimes someone puts a bomb in front of you and expects you to defuse it. Sometimes someone suggests you steal people's passports so you can get your family out, and with the horror you see daily, the idea tempts you more than you'd like.
Papers, Please is all about hard choices and testing your moral fortitude. Everything you do has consequences. Being a good person in this game is hardly ever rewarded, but not in a way that feels overly cynical. Papers, Please asks you what kind of person you want to be and what you're willing to sacrifice to get there.
The Return of the Obra Dinn
From the creator of Papers, Please, The Return of the Obra Dinn is a game where you play as an insurance investigator for the East India Trading Company. The ship the Obra Dinn has just floated back into port, its entire crew missing or dead. It's your job to figure out what happened aboard the vessel. For insurance reasons.
I don't know how to go into the themes of this too deeply without giving away too much, but the mechanics of the game itself make the game worth playing. You have a magic stopwatch that allows you to go back to the moment of a person's death, allowing you to try and figure out who (or what) killed them, and how. And the soundtrack is extremely good.
Outer Wilds
In Outer Wilds you play as an unnamed alien, and it's your first day going to space! Your planet's space program is pretty new still, so there's still lots to explore and discover on the planets within your system. There are ancient ruins from a mysterious race that once lived in your system, long before your species began to record history. Why were they here? Where did they go? How are they connected to the weird thing that keeps happening to you?
The fun of Outer Wilds is in the discovery and answering your own questions. The game never tells you where to go, and it never outright tells you anything. There are clues scattered through the system, and it's up to you to put them together and figure out your next steps. It's about the way that life always goes on, no matter what, even when it seems like the end of everything, forever. I'd recommend NOT reading anything else about this game. Just go play it. Seriously, the less you know, the more fun this is.
If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers
In If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers, you explore the circumstances of the deaths of four individuals.
This is a short one that took me about two and a half hours to play. If for no other reason, play it for the stunning pixel art. The game explores sexism, racism, and homophobia in the Victorian era and leans heavily into horror themes. Best of all: it's completely free!
Pentiment
Pentiment takes you to the 16th century, where you take the role of Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist working on his masterwork in the scriptorium of an abbey. When someone is murdered, Andreas takes responsibility for finding the culprit.
The game is set over 20~ years and you get to watch how Andreas' actions affect the village in various ways (who's alive the next time you come by, have people gotten married and had children...). It's an exploration of how the past affects the future, and what parts of that past we choose to keep or discard. It has beautiful art, and fans of both Disco and Pentiment often compare them.
Other games you might wanna check out
Night in the Woods, Dredge, Oxenfree, A House of Many Doors, Inscryption, Slay the Princess, Citizen Sleeper, Chants of Sennar, Loop Hero, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, The Pale Beyond, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Elsinore, Her Story, Before Your Eyes, Pathologic (not delved into above because the venn diagram of Pathologic fans and Disco fans is basically a circle)
#disco elysium#pentiment#outer wilds#in stars and time#roadwarden#if on a winters night four travelers#papers please#the return of the obra dinn#the longing#video games#hoping so badly there are no glaring errors in this#made this because i have spoken to many people who Dont Play video games but liked disco
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The Nomai never got to see it for themselves, but thanks to their efforts and technology, a Hearthian was able to reach the Eye of the universe.
#outer wilds#outer wilds spoilers#please for the love of god play outer wilds#spoilers#MODDERS DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY VISION#/WE/ ARE FUCKING GOING TO THE EYE#TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!#i beat the game last night and i have not stopped crying#i am mr. doesnt finish fucking anything and i have this and a painted fanart piece in the works#oh my god#oh my god....#puts my head in my hands#outer wilds.... oh my god....#outer wilds fanart
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As terrifying as it would have been, I like to think there was a moment of peace there at the end, among the stars.
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So... this is the next part of the Shakarian comic, but it's not the big one I said would come next. I've made the decision to put that on the back burner for now and pick away at it a lot more slowly while I continue on with what I originally had planned. The next thing you see from me will likely be the Joker-centric part I mentioned a while back, but for now please enjoy this rare coloured comic in the meantime.
Part 1 • Previous Part • Next Part
#mass effect#mass effect comic#femshep#commander shepard#Outer Wilds is my all-time favourite game and when End Times starts playing I like to stop what I'm doing and just take everything in.#It's such a serene moment. I can't change what's about to happen but I can at least enjoy the incredible view in the time I have left#That's how I like to think my Shepard went out once the initial fear settled. Just taking in how beautiful the stars were one last time#so please imagine End Times playing in the background of this comic for maximum effect#mass effect spoilers#ME2 Spoilers#sharky art
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AAAaaaaaaaaa I'm still drawing Outer Wilds, love this game to bits
Slight spoiler warning, nothing too specific though
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Anyway, The Husbands™
All of their dialogs are so cute ^^
I imagine Cassava would be working late and getting really frustrated and Daz trying to get him to take a break once in a while. They would not let each other give up on the search no matter how impossible it seemed I bet.
(some more drawings and sketches under cut)
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A more whimsical, colourful version and my first attempt at drawing Cassava in a digital form
And here's some sketches from when I was still trying to figure everything out
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I love them sm 🤍
#outer wilds#outer wilds spoilers#outer wilds nomai#my beloved#art#digital drawing#procreate art#drawing#pencil sketch#goat boy#I love space game#please play it#gay#i need to get some sleep#it is very late#outer wilds fanart#artists on tumblr
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the eternal pain of wanting to talk nonstop about your favourite things to people who arent familiar with them but not being able to talk nonstop about your favourite things because you also want the person youre talking to to get into your favourite things and it would be spoilers for them so you just kind of explode
#please play my game reccomendations guys i beg you#outer wilds#oceanfalls#ok that ones a webcomic but still#disco elysium#in stars and time#inscryption#loads more im not bothering to tag
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#😎😎👍#please play outer wilds please play outer wilds please play outer wilds please play outer wilds please play outer wilds#outer wilds
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any other chert enjoyers in the chat
#don't usually post sketches but I just love how this turned out tbh#outer wilds is so good guys please play it the game is so good- *I am shot*#anyhow Chert is absolutely the most shaped character#the constellation is gemini btw. because hourglass twins :3#outer wilds#ow chert#digital art#my art
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who needs to interact with the game mechanics when you can just jump real good
watching an outer wilds shipless speedrun is just...
over and over for the entire run
#please play outer wilds#do not watch the speedrun. go play the game. complete it.#THEN go watch a 100% shipless speedrun
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no matter how many times i play through it the ending for echoes of the eye always makes me cry like a baby. it's so good. the music is so good. andrew prahlow i love you. echoes of the eye i love you
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