![]() You really can explore in any direction and in any order you like, following one line of clues or another. As for the writing, this game should be held up as the very model of how to integrate a tight, coherent narrative into an open-world setting. ![]() (I'm tempted to say: "you know, like a game published by Annapurna.") The game-play mechanics are well crafted: navigation - in ship or in suit - and walking work smoothly, and all the tools the player has available function as they should. The aesthetic is stylized, but consistent - and consistently appealing. Each planet may be small - on the scale of hundreds of meters in diameter - but together they offer up a wide variety of dynamic and visually striking environments. The setting is a miniature solar system in which the planets are subject to something like realistic orbital mechanics. The This is very nearly a perfect game: beautifully designed and executed, intelligently written, and engaging from beginning to end. The excellent Echoes Of The Eye expansion is also on sale.This is very nearly a perfect game: beautifully designed and executed, intelligently written, and engaging from beginning to end. Outer Wilds is usually £21/€23/$25 on Steam and the Humble Store, but it’s currently enjoying a -40% discount on both storefronts. We don’t do star ratings on RPS, but if we did I’d give Outer Wilds a small galaxy.” “Overflowing with a toyish love of astronomy and physics,” Brendan Caldwell said in our Outer Wilds review, “it jettisons stuffy formulae for adventures on dangerous planets full of sand, and one-way trips to icy comets hurtling around the sun. That’s one small source of joy, found in an overall great game. The fan-made tool recreates most of that animation - complete with the plucky guitar in the background - and that makes me a happy Earthian. You’ve got some fun, or educational, or confusing, or distressing bedtime reading. A quick animation surveys the wall, the device beeps and boops, the screen flashes with jumbled-up code, and then bam. Every time I discovered the alien squiggles, I’d excitedly whip out the tool, eager to learn more about a bygone civilisation. One of my favourite things in Outer Wilds is the translator tool. Sounds almost like a missed merchandising opportunity for Mobius Digital and/or Annapurna Interactive. They “might eventually post all the files” for the project online, which would allow fans to create their very own replicas or improve upon the already-great work that’s here. The origin of the device is quite simple: “I played the Outer Wilds back around the end of 2022 and got the idea in my head at some point that a functional translator should exist,” says u/Snicker-Snags. ![]() But I’ll ignore that lore inaccuracy due to how obviously impressive the device is. The can of marshmallows in the video, however, is empty. “The device captures an image then sends it to my phone over bluetooth to use Android's offline image-to-text and machine translation APIs.” Their phone then sends the translation back to the blue screen to be displayed. “This translation isn’t actually handled on the device,” u/Snicker-Snag explained through a comment. So, it’s not the latest in Hearthian technology, although it looks exactly like the in-game tool. Redditor u/Snicker-Snag’s tool supposedly translates Spanish, French, and Japanese into English. ![]() The revolving planets in Outer Wilds have walls full of an ancient hieroglyphic language that you can scan and then translate onto a blue handheld screen.
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