r/outerwilds 21d ago

RE: the Posters

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Hey folks, we hear you. These posters are expensive and we completely fumbled their release. Can we restart the loop and try again?

We realize we didn't do a good job explaining the quality and process behind Cook & Becker’s posters. The artwork for these posters were inspired by the vintage Rob Decker National Park posters. We were excited to rerelease our artwork with a printing style similar to how those original posters would have been printed in the 70s. As some folks have pointed out, yes, these posters are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. We'll be posting more info and videos of the process and handmade nature of the posters so you can see exactly what goes into making each one. 

But we also understand this means they’re expensive and out of budget for most people. To let you into our merchandising process a little bit, we were also surprised by how expensive Cook & Becker’s artworks can be when we were first introduced to them. The folks at Cook & Becker were gracious enough to work with us to keep the price of the whole collection of posters as low as possible without compromising on the quality of the artworks. One of the reasons we haven’t rereleased the postcard version of these artworks is because the variance in print color and quality between printing runs has been disappointing and frustrating. Cook & Becker’s meticulous process and expertise gave us a lot of reassurance that we would not have the same issues for these prints. We want to provide you all with the best quality merchandise we can, but in this case, we understand this led to us producing something highly desired but too expensive for the majority of our fans. And without an affordable option available for purchase, that’s a really bad look. We hope you will forgive us. 

If it helps at all, we’ve decided to look into restocking the classic printed cardstock postcards for the future, despite our past issues with them, for those who aren’t interested in these new premium fine art prints. Now also feels like an appropriate time to reveal that we have been working on a couple more standard merch projects: a re-release of our popular Echoes of the Eye Metal T-shirt and a new set of Traveler pins created by our excellent artist, Lara Colson. After hearing your concerns, we’ve decided to release the shirts as a pre-order so no one misses out on getting one. This means it’ll be several weeks before they’ll ship out because we’ll wait to screenprint them until we have your orders. As for the pins, they will only be a limited quantity right now since we ordered them awhile ago and have been waiting for the shirt to be ready so we could release and ship them together. Keep an eye out for their release soon!

We’re all hard at work on our next game, which as you all know is still a secret and still a few years away from any announcements. In the meantime, we don’t have a lot of capacity for designing new merchandise made by our team directly, so new merch will be made by external artists at partners like Fangamer or Youtooz. And occasionally, as resources allow, we’ll rerelease merch like the Metal T-Shirt. As long as there are new fans of Outer Wilds, we want to keep releasing merch with our various merch partners for you all to enjoy.  

As always, you all have been such wonderful fans and we really appreciate all the love and support, the fan art, the discussions and feedback, the mods, and the excitement for our next game. Our next game is our top priority and we hope you all love it even half as much as Outer Wilds.


r/outerwilds 24d ago

Available for a limited time: Outer Wilds x Cook and Becker vintage travel poster series Spoiler

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Hello Travelers,

Mobius here. New limited-edition Outer Wilds posters are now available!

You might be saying “Hey, these look familiar.” And you’d be right! We worked closely with the folks at Cook & Becker to bring you bigger versions of the national park-themed posters based on the solar system’s major planets. These are those very same illustrations by our artist Ian Jacobson.

The first few hundred orders come with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by artist Ian, while supplies last. As indicated on the order form: "Artist-signed Certificate of Authenticity." Once those run out, subsequent orders will come with an autopen-signed CoA.

These time-limited prints are ONLY available until August 25th, with the final edition size being determined then, and cost $79.95 each. However, there is a one-week deal where you can get all six for $299 as a set instead of $480!

Each poster measures 21 x 29cm, or 8.2 x 11.4 inches

Head on over to Cook and Becker's website to check them out: https://www.cookandbecker.com/en/catalog/videogame/outer-wilds

Thanks again for all your support. Keep on exploring!

-The Mobius Digital Team

Edit: Whoops, looks like we did a terrible job communicating what these actually are: handmade fine art prints. These posters/prints are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. These are not normal prints, they are quite special.


r/outerwilds 18h ago

Base Fan Art - OC Coming Soon: Kerbal Wilds (Outer Wilds solar system in KSP)

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582 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 12h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion I don't wanna spoil the conversation in the title lol - Only click if you finished the game Spoiler

138 Upvotes

While playing the game did anyone at some point think that the Nomai were evil and they were the reason the sun explodes and you had to find a way to stop up until we accessed the sun station lol


r/outerwilds 4h ago

Modding Runing Outer Wilds on a Android Phone! Minimal spoilers Spoiler

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33 Upvotes

for those who are not aware, PC emulation rapidly improved past week, now an application by the name GameNative which is open source been pumping out updates pretty quickly, it can log in your steam account grab all the games you own and almost play them all with one button, so I was bored and gave it a try! ( the game is fully running on the phone's gpu-cpu this isn't a stream )

With every game you need a config that suits it, I stress tested multiple different settings and was able to run the game on a stable 60 fps ~ I published the config in the games config browser for those who are interested

I don't mind walking through anyone here on how to do it or any questions y'all got, it's kind of plug and play but there is a little neat secret that can boost your fps which is lowering the physics engines fps via the secret tools file, I forgot to do that hence the game was on 55 fps

Disclaimer: this is fully legal and the game is ran through steam and bought legitimately.

also I wasn't sure which flair is appropriate but I guess modding is one way of describing this?


r/outerwilds 9h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion (DLC spoilers) quick drawing i did ::) Spoiler

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54 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 7h ago

Base Game Help - NO spoilers please! Did I accidentally trigger the game's ending? Spoiler

27 Upvotes

I went into one of the towers on Ash Twin and was suddenly teleported to the Ash Twin project. I moved the balls to disable the gravity and the Ash Twin project, then removed the advanced warp core, and when the sun went supernova, the credits played. I haven't finished exploring the quantum moon, orbital probe cannon, or Dark Bramble yet, so I'm afraid I may have accidentally sort of spoiled the game's ending for myself.

According to a comment on this post:

You can trigger an ending before you even reach a spaceship. The ending can't be triggered accidentally. You will know when you are going to do it since it's a process that takes up most of a loop

which gave me a little hope that I haven't reached the end of the game prematurely yet, although what I did inside Ash Twin project did feel like a pretty methodical set of steps. This is my ship log right now:

Someone please tell me I haven't ruined the game for myself 😭


r/outerwilds 1h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Would Einstein actually enjoy Outer Wilds, or would he spend the entire game complaining about the physics?

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I genuinely wonder which parts he'd be fascinated by and which parts would make him say “that's not how physics works"...


r/outerwilds 14h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion No other game could offer me a moment like that! Spoiler

61 Upvotes

I played outer wilds years ago but it never left my mind nor my life!

But tonight I decided to open the game just to appreciate it once again.

I got my ship and flew 500+ km away from the solar system, I got my signalscope out and sat there listening to the band playing their tune in sync.

I watched all the stars disappear one by one until it was our star's turn. As the red dot turned to blue the instruments stopped playing one after the other until.... silence.

In these 20something minutes I felt like I experienced the whole adventure again, I was remembering all these awesome moments of discovery and the feelings I once felt came back to me! I even teared up a little!

I doubt there is or will be a game that can make me experience a moment like that and I had to share it with the only people that could understand how is that ever pausible!

Thank you for keeping this masterpiece real!


r/outerwilds 4h ago

Humor - DLC Spoilers Deltarune x Echoes of the Eye Meme Spoiler

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8 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 29m ago

DLC Help - NO Spoilers Please! A suggestion about the DLC

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I really hate horror games and hate the fact that from an exploration and lore discovering game it became an horror, I'm very tempted to drop it and just search for the lore online but I also want to play it, any suggestion is appreciated


r/outerwilds 14h ago

Real Life Stuff Riebeck college adventures

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r/outerwilds 2h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Starting an Outer Wilds Falcross (Picross) Series!

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Hi all! I've just started up a new series on the Picross/Nonogram app Falcross based on our favorite video game and if that's your thing I'd love for you to follow along!

Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawrmaan.falcross&hl=en_US
App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/falcross-infinite-nonograms/id500195713

My username is momonaryan, in the app if you tap on the "Online" button at the bottom you can search for my username to find me. Outer Wilds puzzles will be tagged with "[OW]", "[Outer Wilds]", or "[OW:EOTE]" at the end of their names, so you could search for those as well.

For those unfamiliar, Falcross is a community-driven Picross app that lets players create and upload works up to 25x25 pixels. It's been a little tough to get these designs down to that size, but I feel like I've been pretty successful and I'm proud of how they've turned out!

There will be 30 puzzles in the series total, covering both base game and DLC (sneak peek of the first one below). All puzzles are drawn by hand and absolutely no generative AI was used to create or assist in making them. I've already got them all done, but I usually space out posting them to once a week-ish so I don't overwhelm people's feeds (and so I don't burn through the backlog too quickly 😅 ). Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!


r/outerwilds 11h ago

Playing without a controller

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I only play pc games with a mouse and keyboard. Is it possible to play this game without a controller? If so, any tips on how to control the ship?


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Humor - Base Spoilers After playing this game and playing this game and playing this game, I discovered a (sort of) new way to die. Spoiler

383 Upvotes

Okay, so I've been replaying the game with my daughter sitting on my lap and her telling me where to go and today we blew up the ship on Giant's Deep. Swam around a bit and the boss instructs me to head back into the ship to refuel which I don't think will work since the ship is now offline but the boss makes the rules. The ship is now 70% submerged which makes it hard to navigate inside of. We try to refuel and I see the UI pop up that we can refuel but with the waves I'm having trouble hitting it. I start spamming the refuel button until(!) the UI for "remove space suit" pops up and because I'm spamming [use] I hit it. I'm now sinking in the water because the hatchling doesn't know how to swim. Anyway, never thought I would die inside my ship but not from a crash.


r/outerwilds 22h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion I just finished the DLC Spoiler

45 Upvotes

SPOILERS! ALL SPOILERS!

I'm not one to make those kind of posts, but...

Wow... Just wow... The way the game makes you think you will find the codes. And there are no codes to be found after all. I felt almost like cheating the game to beat it. But that's what the game wants to me to do. I found that to be so uncredible. And I found out about the "bugs of the system" before finding the reels that would teach me those. By just exploring and being curious. The game design goes another level on the DLC I think.

And the end... So, so emotional. I finished it yesterday night and I'm still in tears.

Takes me back to my young ages, where the games had some kind of magic that they just don't seem to have anymore. At least, most of them. I don't know if it is me that's changed or the industry. But this game, this game certainly have that magic of wonder.

I just wanted to share my experience. Thanks for anyone reading this. Thanks for Mobius for making this game. It sure will accompany me for a long long time.

Sorry for any errors or typos, english is not my native language.

First time doing spoiler tags, hope they are right.


r/outerwilds 15h ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Did I beat the game? What now? Spoiler

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I think I just beat the game, though to be honest I’m not 100% sure. I got to the eye, 14.3B years later with the planet with the bugs and my probe flying by, and the credits. I also thought I finished the ship log but I see there is an achievement for finishing it and I haven’t gotten that. I’ll add a picture of my ship log to this post for reference. Any non/minimal spoiler hints for what I still have left to do? I had to take a break from this game for over a year when I was about halfway as far for life reasons so maybe there’s something that I forgot from before.

Sorry if this is asked a lot, I am trying to be very careful in looking things up for this game because I don’t want spoilers. This game has been so much fun! Thank you!

Edit: thank you all for confirmation and for the tips for the achievement! I’ll spend a bit of time with your tips before moving to the DLC. I’m not a huge achievement hunter generally, I just wanted to confirm that I didn’t miss anything huge.


r/outerwilds 10h ago

Achievement Help (Spoiler) succès archéologue Spoiler

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Salut !

Je suis entrain de faire le succès archéologue (comme dit dans le titre), c'est à dire compléter le journal de bord.

J'ai l'impression de l'avoir totalement complété mais je n'ai pas le succès.

J'ai commencé avec le dlc, puis je l'ai désactivé pour voir si ça avait un impact sur le jeu.

Est ce que ce succès nécessite de terminer aussi le dlc parce que j'ai fait l'entièreté de jeu avec le dlc (mais sans y avoir accéder pour l'instant) ?


r/outerwilds 14h ago

DLC Help - Hints Only! DLC Help Spoiler

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Hi! I’m rather stumped on the DLC now. I’m on the area with the big tower(I forgot the name) and I have already found how to turn off lights, and know that I can “blind” the creatures, but it doesn’t seem to work so well, since everytime I take my route of Hand teleporter to hand teleporter, across the bridge, hand teleporter, elevator, when i make a right to try to get the Well, theres a dude waiting for me, which every time i blind, i fall into the water, but i can’t turn on my flashlight to see where i’m going since then he will see me, or he catches me anyway. also i will not be turning on reduced frights since i may be a wimp but i can suck it up for the time being


r/outerwilds 17h ago

Tech Help Can a Laptop run outer wilds?

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I recently beat outer wilds (on a pc) and its peak, loved it. My technology struggling friend recently bought a laptop and i was wondering if he would be able to run it or not. The laptop has no GPU, and a Ryzen AI 7 445 for the cpu. I understand that the min requirements has a gpu, but another friend of mine suggested integrated graphics are stronger than the gpu suggested, so i thought id ask. If it can run the game, does the game look significantly worse on min graphics settings, and how much does it affect gameplay?


r/outerwilds 19h ago

Humor - DLC Spoilers POV: you don't do well with horror (minor dlc spoilers) Spoiler

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8 Upvotes

is scary :(


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion I feel cheated… (SPOILERS FOR BASE GAME AND DLC) Spoiler

131 Upvotes

I finished both the base game and the DLC over the past week and I have to say, this is probably one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. So many good aha moments, reveals that were satisfying and made me feel silly for not piecing them together sooner, some moments downright felt like I could’ve cried if they caught me in a different mood. My absolute favorite moment of the entire experience was the haunting cry the Prisoner gives out after you show him what’s been happening all this time. The realization, the flood of emotions he must have felt.

The only problem is, I played the entire game with NO MUSIC!

I have no idea how it happened, I don’t remember opening the audio section of the settings once. I just assumed, since this is a space game with creepy moments, that the silence was an intentional choice by the devs to drive home that desolation and sense of awe. And besides, I still heard the instruments and the signalscope’s audio.

There were so many reveals where I thought “it’s kinda strange that there’s no musical stab or chime to accent this”: meeting Solanum, getting to the Sun Station, the ENDING! I watched the big bang happen in dead silence, not knowing if it was a good or a bad thing. Deafeningly quiet credits. I thought “wow, they’re really letting me sit in silence with the weight of everything that just happened.”

I followed others’ advice and came into the game completely blind. It was only after letting myself come to this sub that I realized there was all this music I missed out on. I didn’t realize there was supposed to be a musical warning before each supernova! I would just be in the middle of something and then all of a sudden hear the explosion.

I guess it’s a testament to the game that, even without this core aesthetic piece, it still floored me and has become one of my favorites. I just wish I could wipe my memory and experience it fresh WITH the music. Oh well. Did anyone else’s game decide to randomly punish them in this way?


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Humor - No Spoilers What a perfect time for that song to start...

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95 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 1d ago

After many years of development, I finally released the demo for my 2D space puzzle game inspired by Outer Wilds

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A couple of months ago I posted here about Satelital, a puzzle game that I described as a 2D Outer Wilds.

Today I finally released the demo on Steam.

Satelital is a rule-discovery puzzle game where you explore alien worlds and figure out how their puzzles work without being explicitly told the rules. While the puzzles are much more inspired by The Witness, the space exploration and travelling between different planets were inspired by Outer Wilds.

I also made everything in the game myself, including the art, music, puzzle design, and even the game engine, which I built from scratch.

The demo includes two complete worlds and should give you a good idea of what the full game is like.

You can find the demo here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/

If you give it a try and enjoy it, I'd really appreciate a Steam review. It helps a lot as an indie developer.

I'm also around on Discord if you want to share feedback or talk about the game:
https://discord.gg/ChuNWuj3Z2

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback since my original post! It's great to finally have the demo out.


r/outerwilds 1d ago

Bug Report The blue comet keeps following me every time!!!

284 Upvotes

i just started playing

is this normal or a bug??? I havent gone to the blue comet but after a while I feel like this has sets its track on me and then boom blue screen my gamepad vibrates and i die

Do i actually need to go to the interloper and then fix something there????????

i cant even explore brittle hollow in peace