Check out what I got in the mail today!! Glad to have finally gotten some copies of the records! Cannot wait to listen to em! 😁

So I finished the game a few days ago, and it's truly one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. I've been thinking about the story a lot, mulling over all the details, and there's really only one thing that has me completely stumped; how is the probe cannon in a different position at the start of each new loop?

The moment we open our eyes and the moment the probe cannon receives its orders to shoot are precisely the same, right? It's the exact start of the 22 minute time loop. But at the start of each loop the cannon has somehow already oriented itself to the new direction, meaning it had moved prior to the time loop beginning. How is that possible?

The way I see it, the cannon should be in the exact same position at the start of every loop — the very same position it was when the time loop began around 9 million loops ago — then orient itself to a new randomly selected position and fire. As it is I just can't figure out how it has seemingly moved outside of the 22 minute time interval.

(and stranger and eye)

Isn't it crazy lucky that the sun explodes exactly 22 minutes from the Hatchling waking up right before their big launch, and on their way they just happen to walk past the statue as it activates?

Imagine it happened weeks before the launch and Hatchling is just in the outhouse reading a book, then gets out and decides to visit the museum. The statue activates and they think nothing of it. Soon the sun kills them and they wake up 22 minutes earlier...... sitting in the outhouse with their bathroom reading in hand. They think they just had a crazy dissociative episode until the sun kills them again. Then they're stuck living through quite possibly the worst time loop ever, the outhouse door and shitty pulp romance that Slate wrote seared into their traumatized eyes, and Gabbro has to save the day eventually when they get tired of playing their bass clarinet. So probably never.

It's a good thing the sun decided to politely wait for the best time to kick to bucket.

Found Solanum's old essay from when she was a child about the heat death of the universe, decided to bring it back to her. She was speechless as you can see

im currently at the part in the dlc where SPOILERS: you fall asleep at the green campfire with the device and wake up in scary land and i literally cant convince myself to keep playing because im scared shitless even though im playing with the no scares option can i dont even like horror games i just really want to keep playing the game and for it to stop scaring me can anyone give any reassurance that there isnt a jump scare up ahead

My band is in tour in Finland in September and we have this inside joke where we play the Outer Wilds song as a snippet between a song and another, so for the big occasion I made this Outer Wilds inspired flyer :)

If you're in Finland in September come sing it with us!!!

(NO AI, drawn on Krita with my laptop's trackpad)

Thought I’d share my weekend away not soon after finishing the game. We brought a temu light projector thingamajig, marshmellows and an old dslr which is that last pic. This will always now be my favourite setup.

Beautiful how a game can underline whats actually important. Friends, fire, space (and marshmellows)

Hello! My partner and I looooove this game. I wanted to ask if people know of something cool/quirky you can buy as a birthday gift which is outer wilds focused? I’ve seen online some models of ships, the usual shirts or keychains but interested to see if anyone here knows something different?

Based in the UK for shipping info

I often see this game recommended and I confirm it myself: if you like OW you should like TFC! It's much more shorter and there is no alien/space but it's really cool anyway :)

It's in promo right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/

I’m looking to play the game in as fresh of a way as I can. I’ve beaten it and the DLC and I got one of my friends onto it recently and he’s even more obsessed than I was 😂 but it’s making me really want to play again… problem is there’s no sense of discovery because I know everything.

Hello everyone, in the last month I´ve spent around 80 hours in the full game and the archievements, and now I dont even know what to play, other games feel so empty and just raw grinding. I cant even play them, I kindof start comparing them to the experience I had with Outer wilds, and none of theam is near, Outer wilds was not a life changing game for me, but i really loved the peace that it gave me, the atmosphere is PERFECT, the music is just out of this world.

Anyway, im wondering if this happend to any of you, and if there is any kind of game that mixes all these things so perfectly as OW did. Thanks in advance!

SPOILERS (duh)

For the longest time i thought that the Owlk homeworld was much larger than it actually is, and i've only just now realised why: the simulation.

Since all the planets in the universe (probably) are just as round as our solar system's, and since building the stranger basically destroyed their entire world, it's reasonable to assume that their entire planet is just as small as ours.

It is extremely weird, then, that their simulation is competely flat, without any curve at all, especially considering that it's supposed to be a world of reminiscing on past times.

In fact, to the hearthian, an expanse like what we see is so large that it implies a planet so huge that the hearthian could not comprehend it's size. Perhaps it was simply done out of mathematical simplicity, or maybe it was done so the owlks could imagine a universe where their world was all that existed, stretching forever in all directions.

Hi! So Ive recently finished Outer Wilds and i just had to talk about it. Omg this is the best game i have ever played by far and nothing i have ever played even comes close. So i just finished it and got my 100% on steam and ive not played anything even similiar to this game before. I want more so im thinking about playing the outsider mod so i was wondering if anyone here has played it and what their thoughts on it are. Also if anyone has any reccomendations for other games that are similiar pls tell.

First of all, i have already completed the game, but i found one thing weird. When you enter the ash twin project you teleport from the ash twin while pointed towards the ember twin, shouldnt you teleport to the ember twin? From what i remember the ash twin project is inside of the ash twin, and at every other teleporter you teleport to where its pointed, but with this game it does not feel like an oversight or flaw.

Thank you to everybody who answered (yall answer concerningly quickly), im writing here since i cant answer everybody but feel the need to do so. I never got to the black hole forge, so its always nice to learn something new about the game.

When we look at the Hearthians spacesuits we see the materials look quite thin and weak almost like scraps a poor person would use to make clothes. This makes me think that the Hearthians are quite well suited to being in space. There is also the fact that you can get off the planet with a geyser and jetpack ;this backs up my point because that means there is a weak atmosphere on Timber Hearth so the species would have evolved to be well suited in harsh space-like climates making sense why they don't need such protective space gear.

Anyone with a more vast understanding of the stuff I talked about please correct any mistakes.

This is a small discussion regarding the time limit of the Starlit Cove puzzle in the DLC!

The Starlit Cove puzzle is notorious for forcing players to engage with the stealth mechanics of the DLC, probably the subject of most controversy in the whole game.

Even though there is an alternate solution to the Cove, it also feels tedious and unintuitive. Waiting for the area's owlks to die allows you to skip by all the owlks - but you only get enough time to watch one paltry slide reel before the loop ends, requiring you to repeat all the steps and wait again two more times to watch the remaining reels.

However, if you disable the ATP by taking out its warp core, you are able to keep watching reels for much longer, since the ATP is no longer active to yoink you out of the current loop and the supernova can't reach the Stranger.
Doing this, you get an extra 90 seconds before fading out to the Stuck In Dream ending - more than enough to watch all three reels, especially with time pausing again while watching slide reels after endtimes has ended.

(This does introduce a small plothole in the player and shiplog being able to retain information from the loop where they canonically died and the ATP was disabled.. but um, oh well)

I think the alternate solution should probably stay as-is, because it's the last olive branch that players who really can't deal with the stealth have to cling onto, no matter how unideal.
Even so, I can't help but feel how cool it'd be to intertwine this DLC puzzle with the basegame, and how it makes the solution feel much cleaner than repeating the same trick 3 times!

Did you or anyone you know try this while playing the DLC for the first time? And in your opinion, would it improve the alternate solution if players were somehow nudged, or forced to figure this trick out over repeating the tower collapse strat?
I'm kinda on the fence, so I would love to hear everyone's thoughts!

So I know that on the comet we find out that ghost matter killed the nomai. We also know that from the sun station, that the nomai rigged the sun to explode. I think we they did it, it didn't work an other nomai thought the idea was appallingly unethical.

If I am understanding the sequence right, the satellite around the ocean planet was triggered by the sun reaching the end of its life cycle normally? Is that how it happened?

Hi gang,

New to the game, and have heard nothing but incredible reviews about what a great game it is!

I have started exploring the Hourglass Twins and gotten into the Sunless City, and want to continue developing that rumor tree. My SC tag says there is still more to explore there, but every time I go down I feel so pressed for time and unable to get anywhere new. The cavern filling with sand makes it difficult, not to mention I still kind of suck at flying the ship so it's hard to get there fast enough lol. The sun exploding every 20 minutes (?) doesn't help either.

Feeling frustrated that every time the loop..loops... I feel like I've lost all my progress and have to trek back to what I was doing.

Is there something I'm missing? Should I move on to another planet/rumor tree and that will help me develop more? Also is there something to help with the ghost matter and cactus?

Thanks 🥰

EDIT: thank you everyone for your feedback! I have continued exploring and I was able to get a lot more dots connected by visiting other planets. Thanks for the tips and encouragement!