Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
PlayStation 4
25th Oct 2019
25th Oct 2019
- Also Available On
- Feature Support
- Official Site
- outerworlds.obsidia...
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
- Addons / DLC
- The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon
- The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos
Reviews
Review The Outer Worlds - Fallout: New Vegas Meets Mass Effect in This Role-Playing Masterclass
Spacer's choice
The Outer Worlds borrows a lot from Fallout. More specifically, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, the latter being developer Obsidian's own creation. You travel between disgruntled communities, picking up quests and shooting people you don't like. You click your way through branching dialogue options, and the camera zooms in on a...
DLC Reviews
Actual murder on the dancefloor
The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos is the game's second and final expansion. Just like Peril on Gorgon, it's another solid adventure that takes you to a whole new location. This time around, the crew of the Unreliable find themselves on the Grand Colonial — essentially a massive hotel complex that orbits the...
Mini Review The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon - A Solid But Very Safe Expansion
Welcome back, Captain
Bloody corporations, eh? They've only gone and done it again! Peril on Gorgon is The Outer Worlds' first expansion, and all told, it's a solid excursion. Your intrepid Captain and their crew find themselves travelling to the hellish Gorgon asteroid — a (mostly) abandoned testing site for dodgy space drugs. You're contracted...
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The Outer Worlds Guides
Guide The Outer Worlds Character Builds - Attributes, Skills, and Perks for Every Style of Play
Best skills and perks to pick in The Outer Worlds
Creating a character in The Outer Worlds can be a daunting process. Right at the beginning of the game, you have to think about base attributes and skills, and once you're off on your adventure, levelling up and bringing peace (or chaos) to Halcyon, you've got to start thinking about perks. There are...
Guide How Long Is The Outer Worlds?
How long does it take to beat The Outer Worlds?
How long is The Outer Worlds? How long does it take to complete The Outer Worlds? Those of you who don't have hundreds of hours to spare will be happy to hear that The Outer Worlds is not an especially lengthy game, but it's still going to take you a good chunk of time to fully complete. How long is...
Guide The Outer Worlds Tips and Tricks for Beginners
Advice for rookie space captains
The beauty of The Outer Worlds is that you can play through it however you want. Good guy, bad guy, unstoppable psychopath, corporate lackey, sliver tongued coward -- you can be whoever you want to be, and it's a great role-playing title because of this. But whether you're prepared to do anything for a fistful of...
Guide Is The Outer Worlds Open World?
Is The Outer Worlds like Fallout?
Is The Outer Worlds an open world game? Obsidian's latest release certainly has a lot in common with existing open world titles like Fallout: New Vegas (which was also developed by Obsidian), but if you're expecting to explore a huge map with few boundaries, then you're probably going to be disappointed. Is The...
Guide The Outer Worlds New Game Plus - Does The Outer Worlds Have New Game Plus?
Can you carry progress over in The Outer Worlds?
Does The Outer Worlds have a New Game Plus mode? Obsidian's latest role-playing game is built with replay value in mind, but can you carry over your progress from a completed save into a brand new game? Does The Outer Worlds Have New Game Plus? Unfortunately, The Outer Worlds does not have a New Game...
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The Outer Worlds News
News Annapurna Will Reprint Wonky Outer Wilds: Archeologist Edition on PS5
The "glitch in the time loop" will be closed
Last week, we brought you word of an unfortunate publishing mishap in which the PS5 physical edition of Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition shipped with the wrong version of the game on the disc. Well, it seems Annapurna Interactive is doing the right thing and will be reprinting the game after all...
News Native PS5 Version of Sci-Fi RPG The Outer Worlds Rated for Release
"It's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice!"
A native PS5 version of Obsidian's excellent sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds has been rated by the Taiwanese ratings board, suggesting that an updated version of the game could be heading to current-gen consoles. Called 'The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition', it would make sense for this version of...
News The Outer Worlds Update 1.7 Adds 60FPS Support on PS5
Available to download now
Phwoar, this is what we absolutely love to see. Ahead of its final piece of DLC content, The Outer Worlds has received a patch that allows the game to run at 60 frames-per-second on PlayStation 5. Available to download right now, the patch weighs in at roughly 26GB. One user has already shared what the 2019 RPG looks like...
News The Outer Worlds Expansion Solves a Murder on PS4 Next Week
Game's final expansion pegged for 17th March
Obsidian may be sheltered under Microsoft’s umbrella these days, but The Outer Worlds continues to be supported on the PlayStation 4, with the title’s second major expansion Murder on Eridanos officially confirmed for a 17th March release. The plot will revolve around the murder of renowned actress...
News The Outer Worlds' Second Expansion Will Land Before the End of March
Murder on Eridanos
Wow, it's admittedly been quite some time since we spared a thought for The Outer Worlds. The sci-fi RPG is back in the news cycle thanks to the fact that Take-Two has outed the release window for 'Murder on Eridanos' — the game's second (and as far as we know, final) expansion. According to the company's latest financial...
News The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon Expansion Launches September on PS4
Get the crew back together
The first of two expansions for The Outer Worlds will launch on PlayStation 4 this September, developer Obsidian has announced. Titled 'Peril on Gorgon', the DLC will whisk you and your party away to an abandoned Spacer's Choice facility on an old asteroid. We're sure plenty of wacky adventures will ensue. You'll be able...
News The Outer Worlds Was Held Back by Console Memory Budgets
Less NPCs and content
The Outer Worlds might not have had the biggest environments to explore on PlayStation 4, with the likes of Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt dwarfing it, but at least those locations were fairly detailed. However, it could have been so much better. In a new interview with Danny O'Dwyer as part of No Clip, developer...
News The Outer Worlds Is a Big RPG Success with Two Million Copies Shipped
Not including Game Pass
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds took the RPG genre by storm last year when it became an instant hit on PlayStation 4, and it looks like that has translated into a big success at retail with more than two million copies shipped worldwide. This makes it the studio's most successful title since South Park: The Stick of Truth.
News The Outer Worlds Story DLC Confirmed, More Details in 2020
Welcome back, Captain
Fans of The Outer Worlds rejoice! The highly rated role-playing title is getting story DLC in 2020, developer Obsidian Entertainment has revealed in an end-of-year blog post. DLC for the game has long been rumoured, but we haven't had concrete confirmation until now. The aforementioned blog post reads: "To all of those who...
News The Outer Worlds Text Size Patch Isn't Enough to Stop Players Squinting
Keep your glasses on
The Outer Worlds' patch 1.1 rolled out earlier today, which among other various fixes and updates, promised to increase the size of the game's text. Developer Obsidian has now successfully deployed that update, but the effect it has had on the font's size is completely negligible. As reported by VICE's Patrick Klepek, you can...
About The Game
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later than you expected only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
Welcome to the future - try not to break it.
- Build any character you want in this thrilling single-player first person RPG - including optional flaws based on your own game experience
- Lead a crew of companions armed with unique abilities that have their own missions, motivations and ideals
- Find your ship and explore the settlements, space stations and other diverse locations in the Halcyon colony
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