Let's Play Outer Wilds, for the First Time

[@RTGame]

This game was Wild I hope everyone enjoys the edited playthrough of the entire game. I've wanted to play it for years, and I had a wonderful time with it. Thanks too to everyone who suggested this game in the suggestions box on my Discord server, and for bearing with me to get round to it haha. It's the single most requested game I've been asked to play this year. Doing my best to stay true to my word and play everyone's favourite game this year :)

[@idontreallyknow2885]

Evening

[@randomizedtaco6565]

damn dude, 3k views in 5 minutes. impressive.

[@Poluxdmc]

Vi el Stream en directo, fue realmente divertido.

[@johnbade8820]

badom tssh

[@blazeofficial3885]

Hope you plan to play the dlc. It's great too.

[@stormie5666]

“Is there fall damage in this game?” is possibly the funniest way to trip into the time loop mechanic

[@elio6361]

I actually died before I was put in the time loop like that (with the geysers), and I was just thrown back in the main menu, without a save

[@ninjack11]

@@elio6361 same jumped into the water geyser

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

that got me to laugh so hard ngl

[@Stan99]

@@elio6361 yeah you didn't activate the statue yet so no time loop yet haha

[@niquel5831]

I'm sure he knew about the loops before playing. He tried dying just after unlocking the loops.

[@cadentan9083]

Outer Wilds fans rejoicing at being able to vicariously replay the game through yet another KZbinr.

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

Yes!!

[@MarkusArtemis]

I know! Now I'm just waiting for Finding Paradise and Imposter Factory (Sequals of To The Moon) And I was just trying to get my friend to play/stream Outer Wilds for me. literally the best timing

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

I feel called out ngl

[@ehrensto]

Holy cow, yes!! Especially RT! Can't wait to watch this entire thing tonight lmao

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

I FEEL CALLED OUT AND IM PERFECTLY OKAY WITH IT

[@fwg1994]

For an explanation of why he broke space time there, it's because he went back in time by jumping in the black hole, but in the next cycle created a paradox by not jumping in the black hole again, creating a version of himself that came from nothing. Also interesting little bit about the ending. You can completely skip going to the quantum moon, but if you don't meet Solanum, she isn't there when you go to the eye, and the final scene of the new planet 14 billion years later doesn't have any new lifeforms on it. The implication seems to be that if the protagonist doesn't encounter a living Nomai, they're unable to comprehend alien life and so when they're collapsing all possibilities into one where a new universe is birthed, they can't guide it to a possibility in which life occurs. I believe going through the dlc and then doing the ending also changes it slightly so there's a second, distinct group of lifeforms on another part of the planet too.

[@cooly1234]

yes, going to the end of the dlc then doing the ending normally adds a second group of aliens. From what I understand, everyone "present" influences the realised possibility, from what dlc guy says.

[@kadebrockhausen]

My theory as to the ending and Solanum is that the new life forms are still there, but the Nomai's strong sense of progress brought them fire and the tools to maybe one day explore the universe on their own

[@wobblywack5531]

Gotta love it when I exist in 2 places at once because I went through a black hole, and ripped a hole in the space time continuity

[@Peastable]

My biggest regret is how I was an idiot who never quite figured out the quantum moon (got all the rules but kinda didn’t think about the 6th location one) and so I finished the game without solanum despite doing almost all the work cuz I just forgot.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Good explanation!

[@Android_ELITE]

local man fails to realize that you have to slow down when you approach things, instead of continuing to accelerate towards them as you worry about crashing into them

[@thewordywarlock7159]

He is the drift king, after all.

[@danieljames1868]

RT not understanding the value of braking is very on-brand

[@amatteurrwave]

This is the same local man who didn't know you have to let go of the accelerator before braking.

[@NimonoSolenze]

Reminds me of a certain other failure-to-slow incident... "PRESS SPACE TO SLOW DOWN!"

[@rambbler]

Local drift king forgets game not competetive racing game: results are shocking!

[@brysonbrooks5326]

Rt not reading the prompts in the corners while flying directly into the side of a planet at full speed is very on brand

[@sdfasdfadfasdfadfasd]

Hold space to slow down...

[@mattymerr701]

@@sdfasdfadfasdfadfasd oh god, moon quest

[@rinthesquare]

@@sdfasdfadfasdfadfasd Fantastic reference right there

[@bionicbirb9104]

@@techno1561 wait, what paradox did he cause? Not doubting you, I just have smallbrain

[@Soroboruo]

It's not a REAL Outer Wilds first (or second, or third, or eighth) run without flinging oneself violently into things!

[@Dargon_fire]

I stopped watching this after 15 minutes, bought the game, played it for 3 days straight and finished it. It was absolutely worth it. Now I can continue watching the video again.

[@paroperha]

Good viewer! 👍

[@cadepeppley9430]

I did the exact same thing lol, although it took me 3 weeks of playing on and off to get here

[@motordragon1975]

I’m a real wuss when it comes to games that build up anxiety, and I hate Dark Bramble & Giants Deep for not knowing what’s through the fog/currents. The underground currents also had me terrified on Hearth as well. But I successfully completed the game myself yesterday (after over a month), and finished watching both stream archives. Now here I am for the highlights. Bloody awesome game and I also think it was 100% worth playing myself.

[@ravilarlexzx7244]

Good job

[@madmanmax120]

Amateur, I stopped after 30 minutes, waited a year for it to go on sale, then did my 3 day binge. Then of course came back to this video to see Dan take a crack at it.

[@xDragonHybridx]

There's another secret ending that Dan missed while playing around wth the white/black hole travel experiment. The probe launched into the black hole exits the white hole a fraction of a second beforehand, so for a brief moment, there are two instances of the same object existing at the same time. If you close the holes in that moment when two instances of the probe exist, you create a time paradox which causes the universe to end.

[@cullenlatham2366]

no, he got that ending, just in an unconventional way. By returning a nomai ship he was riding in to a planet already consumed by a supernova, either that or because he activated the return warp while being within the white hole. The "kazoo ending" as he described it is one and the same, he just did not get to see the full effect of reality breaking. How can someone be dead a moment before they are also alive? It is a paradox, and hence triggers the ending, apparently. Edit: Yes, i now know that the real reason he achieved the ending is because the existence of his clone was an unfulfilled promise to always end the loop by creating another clone, i just had to give a speculatory reason as to why the same ending could be achieved in a way i had not previously seen. The main point was that, as long as the credits were playing kazoo music, the game considers it the same ending, regardless of how it was achieved.

[@sunakokirishiki]

@@cullenlatham2366 That's actually not what happened. Because RT went into the black hole on the Ash Twin project, he basically made a promise to the universe to always enter that black hole. When he doesn't enter the black hole again in the next loop the past him who did went into the black hole could've never been inside the ash twin project creating a paradox.

[@cullenlatham2366]

@@sunakokirishiki yeah, i read that possibility after making my comment. Either way, it is a method to get the ending i had not before seen, and the main point was less about the speculation and more about the fact that the secret ending was still achieved. To be fair, i likely never would have found the ending to begin with if not for vicarious "first playthroughs" in the form of video reactions. Carl Sagan42 specifically, though i at least waited until i played the game myself to watch.

[@LonelyAncient]

@@cullenlatham2366 [Spoiler Alert] if you have a clone existing and take too long to jump into the eye's sky vortex you also get this ending because your clone dies in the super nova. It's by far the worst ending you can get especially if it's your first playthrough. Imagine figuring everything out, taking the core, going through dark bramble only to randomly get that ending while on the vessel or the eye.

[@quantumblur_3145]

@@LonelyAncient poor Vinny...

[@bldhf]

i feel like rt making a bad landing, getting out of the ship, then getting annoyed at the siren and running back in only to read "reactor damaged" and getting blown up would be hilarious as an animation just saaying animators

[@HazeEmry]

Someone get Wolfzie on this!

[@CactusBreadmill]

59:40

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

​@@CactusBreadmillwill rtgame play oneshot place your bets

[@jonasquinn7977]

Something I love about this game is that almost everyone starts from the same place of “The Nomai were and scientists who messed up and doomed us all” bu by the end of the game you realise that wasn’t true at all, the Nomai were extremely intelligent and kind people whose plan absolutely would have worked and met a tragic end with the current situation having nothing to do with them

[@Blewlongmun]

I love how quickly the interloper puts things in perspective, it straight up tells you how all the Nomai die, and gives you a timestamp to boot. It doesn't matter what point in the story you're at, it re-contextualizes everything before and after it. This game is perfect.

[@florac1995]

@@Blewlongmun I would argue its more the sun station which recontextualizes everything, with it revealing they arent behind the sun exploding

[@Vmar98]

They were intelligent but curious to a fault. They tried to blow up a sun in their pursuit of knowledge knowing that, if their experiment failed, they would've killed all life surrounding that sun, including themselves. Even if they never got that far, they were willing to take that risk to find the eye of the universe faster

[@Bad.Astronaut]

@@Vmar98 SCIENCE COMPELS US TO BLOW UP THE SUN!

[@jonasquinn7977]

@@Vmar98 yes but they also took every possible precaution before even considering it as an option and they were right! Their plan would have worked and everything would have been fine, it was a risk but all science is a risk

[@moonpen_]

“You have become the most important thing that has ever existed. Succeed, and everything is reborn. Fail, and there is nothing after the dark. Get in your ship. Godspeed, and look out for the anglers. You have a universe to put to rest, and it simply will not wait for you any longer.” - Some guy in the chat of this stream

[@nikkoa.3639]

That's one tear-jerking message. Godspeed to that man, seriously that made me want to cry

[@bungersinyourarea]

o7

[@Acudit]

"That's a lot of meth." -some other guy in chat (when rt was looking at the core of the Interloper)

[@mei_sun025]

Damn, thats exactly how you're supposed to feel when you have the core and youre heading towards dark bramble. Bravo, this game is a masterpiece

[@32BitJunkie]

That's the kind of reverence i felt playing it. This guy didn't give the ending the respect it deserved

[@Pugalt5000]

Friendly reminder in this game, when you jump, the world moves not you

[@AlanStryman]

yes its true, the devs said its much easier this way

[@pokkiheart]

what if the world just didn't come back up

[@stormie5666]

Geocentrism on a whole new level

[@DurianFruit]

@@AlanStryman is this a joke, or is this real? If it is real could you please tell me where you heard this? this sounds really interesting.

[@Aeonstar]

@@DurianFruit IIRC it has something to do with locations being save as "floating point" values, which have a limited number of digits to save a number within. Put simply, the further away you get from a location of (0,0,0), the less precisely things are able to move. This is fixed by the player always being located at (0,0,0) instead of the center of the world being located at (0,0,0). That way, the stuff moving less accurately is too far away for you to see it.

[@xan8636]

this dude really found the secret "easter egg" ending, where you see yourself and create a paradox, entirely on accident. He literally found the ash twin project by accident, wtf.

[@ryank2465]

bro didn’t even go to the black hole forge

[@Zacatk23]

​@@ryank2465 literally I spent so much time trying to get to that forge and he didn't even need to consider its existence

[@bich_what]

That's just a staple of this channel isn't it? Oops, I found a secret! XD

[@BananaWasTaken]

And the firing the probe into the eye of the universe

[@amunak_]

The whole playthrough is so infuriating :D he doesn't figure out the simplest things and yet stumbles upon extremely important stuff by accident... And the editing is also kinda oof at times... Like, how did he find the Vessel? I doubt he followed the signal considering he never used the signalscope before.

[@donovanjoseph737]

I’ve never played this game before, but that kazoo-ed credits theme is probably the one of the funniest “bad ending” result I’ve ever seen

[@acblook]

not only have you never played it before, now that you've watched the video u cant ever play it in the future either :]

[@pixeldemon6173]

Have you played silent hill 2? If you know, you know.

[@francomasella3543]

Yeah. The kazoo ending is the " joke one", you get it when destroying the fabric of spacetime. There are actually two ways of doing that, the first one (the one he did) is entering to the black hole on the ash twin project and not reentering again, so a paradox is created. The second one, I don't want to spoil it to you, but is related to the energy lab.

[@mydonkeybob5446]

@@acblook I started playing, but was too scared to make it past the anglerfish (I don’t do horror well). So I’m glad rt was able to make it past them for me, and I was able to enjoy the rest of the game through him.

[@bsh819]

@@mydonkeybob5446 Man, every single planet has at least one completely terrifying hazard on it, as does the space itself between them. Despite it's friendly face this is in no way a game for the feint of heart.

[@CrispyShroom]

I really think RT should play Outer Wilds, such a good game!

[@yustinj.3910]

Ok but I really think he should play outer wilds. I'm probably the first person to suggest this, there definitely isn't a meme on the discord server about how many people have suggested this, no way.

[@Yuti640]

Yeah, he probably should, it’s a pretty good game ….what? Time loop? Rumble Tumble, are you crazy, you’re just about to start streaming!

[@princier_7215]

@@Yuti640 Wait,are you me?

[@librus8680]

He really should! I think it'd be nice to see him handle those tricky flight controls. (... And in all honesty, we gotta' see this man explore The Stranger sometime...)

[@seantaggart7382]

*Oh boy timeloop*

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

This was the weirdest progression route I've seen anyone take with this game. Man accidentally found the coordinates, the sun station and the Ash Twin core before he even understood most things, never visited several locations and at least from how this was edited, seems to have skipped over any mentions of the stars exploding or the writings inside the Vessel. And how many loops was it before he even saw the sun explode?! Still seems he covered most of the salient points, and probably got there quicker than most.

[@starstruckdaydreamer3822]

i watched the stream and rt got to the vessel for the first time like FIVE HOURS IN. i have no idea how but he just did it lol he read the writings inside the vessel once he warped to the eye though. i forgot how he realized that the universe is dying but i think he figured it out once he realized that the idea of saving a star and preventing a supernova is ridiculous

[@moonie.e]

Don't worry, he did find most of the things like the stars going supernova (although he didn't seem to care about it too much) plus the chat told him whenever there was some lore he could've missed (like the vessel) It diiid take a solid 2 hours for him to see the sun explode, I think it was his 7th run? But yeee, he got a lot dun in about 15 hours of playing lool, the editing is just showing the most important bits.

[@FlamingLily]

He didn't accidentally find the coordinates, he went to the observatory, heard of things going to the core and had spoken to feldspar and seen the jellyfish prior to that. As for ash twin project he did manage to get to it on a false assumption but I wouldn't call it accidentally in the slightest, he went with the first (admittedly illogical and false) instinct his gut gave him (the sand activates the warp towers) and it just so happened to be one that coincidentally works perfectly with the real solution (Not to mention he decided the purpose of the alcove perfectly). it's hard to see the difference between a person accidentally blundering into the solution and using their wisdom and gut instincts to solve a puzzle, but RT is definitely a Feldspar. Not an idiot, not getting lucky, but following that gut instinct you get from wisdom.

[@iveharzing]

It reminds me a lot of his first few hours in Elden Ring, where he got teleported to Caelid before finding Melina (so no horse and no leveling). And then he proceeded to explore most of Caelid on foot, concluding with exploring the Divine Tower with the Godskin Apostle at the bottom, and trying that boss multiple times even though it 1-shot him. :)

[@nikkoa.3639]

Have you seen Jerma play this? He absolutely did NOT GET ANYTHING from the game. It was both extremely difficult and funny to watch him magically stumble into everything

[@Salderosan99]

Hearing Dan screaming "EASY DOES IT!" as he's barreling towards a planet at a thousand miles per hour is something i won't forget easily

[@WackoMcGoose]

I discovered something _very_ RT-coded last night. If you're barreling toward Hollow's Lantern at close to (or over) a kilometer per second, _you bounce off the lava..._ and still die.

[@BananaWasTaken]

@@WackoMcGoosefun fact: if you go far enough out it is possible to get below the current on giant’s deep by just ramming it as fast as you can. (It does require you to go _very_ far out though)

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@BananaWasTaken That's the intended method to get _[Deep Impact],_ I know. But considering you have to _manually adjust your entire trajectory all the way_ to account for Giant's Deep constantly moving, and the fact that I _still_ missed it and grazed the atmosphere instead of a bullseye... I ended up using the cheese strat of "fly under Gabbro Island and hope I'm in the right place to be pushed through".

[@catofsnow_]

For anyone wondering how RT managed to literally break spacetime: You may recall that in the previous loop, he entered a blackhole as the world ends. That copy (the "Self" NPC he found in the following loop) survived by going back in time, and the two copies, the protagonist and "Self", are now both part of the universe. If the protagonist does not repeat the process - jump into the blackhole again as the world ends - to become "Self" in the next loop, "Self" will exist in the time loop without a point of origin and should not exist, causing spacetime to shatter. Basically, RT created a time loop paradox without even knowing what he's doing.

[@jacciswacc4335]

The lack of control over the world is my favorite. This game having everything that you see and do just being at bay of the physics and loop is so damn unique. The islands just getting jettisoned to space, the twins exchanging sand, the scout over Timber hearth (you can collide with it and alter its trajectory) all gives a sense of life and how little the Hearthians really know of the system they live in.

[@firekirby123]

I love how much careful thought and detail went into every little, tiny, intricate detail of this game too. *Everything* is interconnected. If you find one of the talking stones, there is *always* another that it's paired with that shows the conversation from the other side. If you run into the deep-space satellite, your map becomes unavailable. The scout launchers are made using the same technology as the Nomai ship's recall feature. Within the tiny enclosure of the cockpit, you see a little bonsai tree to explain why you always have oxygen, a gravity crystal to explain why you're always standing on the floor when it should be 0G, and your computer even has a fragment of the Museum's Nomai Statue visible at the bottom of the console to explain why the logs come back to your ship alongside you at the end of a loop. They even planned out all the possible ways you could conceive of escaping the supernova after stopping the ATP, and have unique little easter-egg endings for each of them. It's obvious this game had a *ton* of passion put into it, and I adore every second of it. I can't _wait_ to see what these devs wind up working on next.

[@scarletempress2652]

@@firekirby123 They made DLC for Outer Wilds!

[@firekirby123]

@@scarletempress2652 Oh believe me, I'm well aware, and my praise absolutely extends to everything in Echoes of the Eye! I just didn't want to include examples from that in case anyone seeing this for the first time wanted to jump into that experience blind after this video. ;)

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

@@firekirby123 I missed the Nomai statue fragment on the ship and that explains SO MUCH.

[@firekirby123]

@@ChaoticNeutralMatt It's a great tiny detail explained in a single bit of text from one of the Hearthians in the Museum. :)

[@Frenchfraeis]

The saddest thing about this game is knowing you can never truly replay it as a new experience. Glad you got to enjoy it RT, this is one of the best games of our time!

[@garbagegremlin]

@Seal this game is solely based on the information you, as the player, gather on the way. You can technically beat this game in one loop if you have all the necessary knowledge. You cant play it again because you already know all the information needed. There is no skill progression, no unlockables, just the knowledge and memories you have. Hope that clears things up :)

[@Charcoal190]

@Seal For a Metroidvania, you still need to go and grab the required powerups to progress. For this, EVERYTHING comes under the form of knowledge, not powerups. So once you have the knowledge, you have it for good. Even if you start a new save, that knowledge still exists. This isn't a character-driven story; it's a player-driven one, and it's a damn good one.

[@TheAwes0meo]

@Seal In a way you're right. The main difference here though is that knowledge is the only thing of value. There is nothing to drive a person to playing it again if they know everything already, unlike say portal 2 which has great voiceovers and you may forget the solution to a puzzle.

[@godlyvex5543]

@Seal Have you played super mario world? what about hollow knight? would you say that you can skip to the end of those if only there weren't so many unskippable cutscenes?

[@Frenchfraeis]

It's more about how the game itself is. On most games you can start as a new class, experience new quests and get new items. Outer Wilds is about knowledge, and you can't really reset that knowledge.

[@drippiink4972]

this game is devastatingly heart breaking. one of my absolute favourites. cant wait to see how this turns out!

[@-NGC-6302-]

oh hey it's the funny man from OFF

[@alac7875]

@@-NGC-6302- A man of culture I see

[@drippiink4972]

@@-NGC-6302- yes yes it is i. the owner of that meat theme park in OFF and also Sans' other father

[@nikkoa.3639]

It's so heart breaking and yet so uplifting. Our curiosity and creativity is never-ceasing and beautiful. We create new worlds ourselves through these two concepts.

[@Silasssssssss]

What's heartbreaking about it? Was it portrayed well in this video? I'm guessing something with these nomai may be sad. Is it worth playing?

[@dj_4point084]

One of my favorite things to do in this game is to sit and watch the night sky. Floating around in silence watching each star and galaxy snuff out. The transition from what was once a full sky turn to black is gracfully terrifying. Glad you got to experience this beautiful yet existentially horrifying game.

[@LimitlessLiger4404]

I dont know how it was in the streams, but from the video it doest seem like he ever realized that every star was going out

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

being in a trailing orbit behind the Orbital Probe Cannon outside of Giant's Deep just staring out into space is one of the most relaxing things I've ever experienced

[@KodasGarden]

@@LimitlessLiger4404 He did figure it out in the final loop when he read the other Nomai correspondence aboard the Vessel

[@alexsiemers7898]

The same thing happens in the title screen, and the text for the word “Wilds” slowly spreads apart as well

[@thomas4841]

I still find it crazy that RT found both the Vessel and the Eye's coordinates BEFORE he even talked to Gabro

[@quantumblur_3145]

Probe Tracking Module before setting foot aboard the cannon...

[@ChanceTheCheetah]

There's nothing more beautiful than watching someone play Outer Wilds. Going from wildly flailing to slowly keying into the universe's secrets, and the fact that everyone discovers and figures out problems in a different way than others. Especially finding the coordinates before the cannon... I mean what!? how!?

[@tydshiin5783]

Iirc he actually found and landed on the canon before the coordinates, except he did not go into the thing

[@fastgoodkiwi9570]

I remember discovering the game and livestreaming it to a friend on discord, I chose to fuck around on timberhearth before leaving and found the grove, I pulled the probe launcher and took a picture to test things out of curiosity. His reaction to me figuring this out in my first loops was gold lmao.

[@onlinezwang]

This game is something else... The music, the art style, the story, the message behind is all, its all just perfect. Really recommend playing it blind and without any guide. This is something you can only experience once.

[@Moo_UwU]

dang wish i would have seen this before watching the entire thing lmao

[@Mae_Renneburg]

I went through the entire game with a guide and knowledge of the story before hand and It is one of my biggest regrets.

[@liamf2300]

@@Mae_Renneburg well at least you know now to not use guides even if u get frustrated. i learned a similar thing

[@Quwertyn007]

The Zero G cave is actually pretty cool, it's zero g because it's in the centre of the planet

[@sanc3375]

I've never seen any playthrough this game, i played it myself about a year ago, and it's something really intimate, it's your experience. However, the mental gymnastics of RT was kinda the same from me. Trying to piece everything together, landing similar conclusions at the lack of information. Love it, this game is just too good!!

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

Dude, watch Joeseph Anderson's playthrough (someone made a condensed version of the Stream Highlights with S-Tier editing). It's insanely funny :D

[@godlyvex5543]

sucks how many people are never going to be able to play it themselves because they watched a playthrough

[@StoryAndSong1]

(Spoilers) I love how the game misleads you into thinking the sun station caused the supernova and all you have to do is turn it off because the reveal is awesome whenever I see someone else find out.

[@Nightstick24]

Yup, they do an absolutely stellar job at misdirecting you at many, many points in the game, leading you to believe one thing then switching it up at the last second in a glorious reveal. But the sun exploding is definitely my favourite instance of it, absolutely everything you read leads you to believe the Nomai caused it in pursuit of this experiment, then you find out that it failed, and suddenly everything clicks as you realize that the universe is just at it's natural end. There is no hero saving the day by destroying the doomsday device, there is no going back to normal, this is the end of everything.

[@StoryAndSong1]

@@Nightstick24 Remember, it can also trick you into thinking that the interloper colliding with the sun could be what's causing it. Two misdirections.

[@screaumbly]

my dumbass didnt even realize it wasnt the sun station until after i beat the game 😭

[@quille1606]

Well I mean if you talk with Chert and he tells you that he had seen dozens of supernova in just one day and you then start paying attention to the distand stars, you will see them going supernova. When our own sun goes supernova you can see that there are a lot less stars in the night sky. From that you could infer yourself that the universe is dying and that it wasn't the sun station.

[@fluffybunny294]

7:56 dan is having the air sucked out of his lungs by the depths of space BUT atleast he got the landing gear repaired

[@firfern]

this is the funniest comment I have seen yet

[@kadebrockhausen]

The ending of this game always brings me to tears. Also the core message and theme, that the pursuit of a goal is meaningful in and of itself, and that even if you don't achieve it, what's important is you tried... The most important step to take is always the next one.

[@kevintoutcourt4164]

Reminds me of the books "The Archives of Roshar". One of the core lessons of it is stated exactly like this.

[@ConfusedRambutan]

​@@kevintoutcourt4164 don't you mean The Stormlight Archive?

[@kevintoutcourt4164]

@@ConfusedRambutan Highly possible, I have the title in french.

[@ceridwenaeradwr8105]

For a while there I was wondering if RT was going to get through the whole game not knowing that the sun explodes because he kept killing himself too quickly.

[@cammo353]

Man I can't even begin to imagine how awful solanum's situation must be. Imagine only being "alive" when you're being observed

[@quantumblur_3145]

Imagine being 5/6ths dead.

[@steamtasticvagabond474]

It’s really creepy because you can actually find Solanum’s dead body on the south pole of the quantum moon where you aren’t at the 6th location

[@redwitch95]

@@steamtasticvagabond474 Yep, you can see it in this playthrough just as RT is landing for the first time.

[@Kavukamari]

essentially 1/6th of a person, dead in all superpositions except one

[@GreatFernicus]

I didn't realize for a while but (SPOILER WARNING) The five Nomai skeletons in the ending that climb onto each others' shoulders and turn into Solanum's ship are all *hers*, one for each time she died when the Interloper exploded

[@Now_Its_Orange]

To anybody who just started watching this video and has never heard of outer wilds before- I highly, highly recommend that you play the game for yourself before watching this video. Outer wilds is a masterpiece of a game that can only truly be experienced firsthand, and watching any playthrough of the game will completely ruin the game for you. I would hate for anybody to be robbed of the amazing experience that this game offers. Maybe watch the first few minutes of this video and, if the game seems interesting or fun to you, go buy it NOW. You won’t regret it.

[@wobblywack5531]

I finished the game, and 2 days later rt uploads a playthrough

[@Mel0nMel]

Welp, if only I didn't read comments AFTER watching videos

[@bookreaderman6715]

as someone who hasn't played and has no plans to (even if I wasn't aware of the end already) I wholeheartedly agree with this statement

[@rotatorebato]

To me, it doesnt matter, because even after watching the video, I have no idea what is going on

[@the_legendary_fire]

@@rotatorebato same the reason I watch RT is to laugh and this video did just that

[@librus8680]

I'm so happy I get to relive my original journey through the eyes of a new explorer. I'm amazed how utterly baffled you began, only actually get a pretty serious grip on things at the end. And an explanation for the "Kazoo Ending" - basically thanks to wonky, large-scale quantum shenanigans, there's a few ways to utterly destroy reality. You can primarily do this in the High Energy Lab: by carefully ripping out one of the miniature warp cores just as the probe is being duplicated, you can close off the time portals, and thus have two probes... by creating a time paradox. An object obviously can't be in two places at the same time, so RIP universe. What you did here, chum, is by diving into the black hole at the heart of the Ash Twin Project... you basically used the black hole/white hole the memory data is sent through and *physically* sent yourself back in time, while your memories *also* got uploaded to your past self. (Gabbro remarks on this: you actually do die every time, and your memories are just sent to a version of you in the past.) But because you leapt through - behold, there's now two of you! But the universe doesn't implode - why? Well, with some discussion with your clone (after you both stop screaming), you both figure that because the *possibility* of jumping back through that Ash Twin Project wormhole exists, the universe is fine with creating a temporal duplicate of you. The *moment* that possibility no longer exists - say, by you dying - the universe encounters a timeline error, and expires. Yep, it gets pretty nerdy in this game! A nice bonus, by the way: if you listen closely, at the end of the kazoo solo, you can hear some people laughing and demanding that this *must* be put to use somewhere in the game. ... Anyway, I really, REALLY hope you come back to investigate that "Map Offline" satellite. There's even more to this amazing little solar system, and I just gotta' see you fly at high speeds into what comes next.

[@thediethrower1803]

Wait so if you do everything right can you end the cycle with two of yourself around? That's neat!

[@Camaroni1000]

@@thediethrower1803 yep. Universe still gets destroyed but at least there’s a new one

[@petey5009]

Last time I played Outer Wilds was before the DLC came out, and I don't remember seeing a "Map Offline" satellite. Is that connected to the DLC in any way?

[@librus8680]

@@petey5009 It is! Normally it's the satellite responsible for the live solar system map feed, and it goes offline if you knock it out of alignment. There's a cabin on Timber Hearth that's used to check in on it from time to time for servicing, and a few notes and coordinates inside that cabin direct you from there.

[@denni8271]

the fact that rt accidentally got the secret where you create a clone of yourself is just so incredible

[@Zalian]

I love how approaching at 60+ meters per second is "easy does it" for this playstyle.

[@Felix-kd8tn]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it was thoroughly enjoyable to see you be so wrong for so long! And it's always fun to watch someone new figure out real[ish] spaceflight physics.

[@StickMaster500]

People after requesting RT to play Outer Wilds for the past couple of years: *_”Now what?_*

[@bugdracula1662]

He’s gotta play echoes of the eye

[@jessehunter362]

luckily he waited long enough for dlc :3

[@LeCheckmate]

Again!!

[@brandon952]

I'm so happy you've played this, absolutely my favorite game of the 2010s! If you get the urge to come back, the DLC is excellent too.

[@vincenttrigg4521]

Holy crap, I had no idea it was that old! I thought it was a new game!

[@alexsiemers7898]

@@vincenttrigg4521 it released in 2019, so still fairly recent despite _technically_ being in the 2010s

[@vincenttrigg4521]

@@alexsiemers7898 ahhh so a technicality, I see how it is

[@cucumberjoe6824]

i remember my first experience with this game, after the supernova i tried to get in my ship to get out of the solar system, and i shit you not the sun started to move towards my position on the map. it was probably a glitch, but it scared the shit out of me enough to not leave the map

[@quantumblur_3145]

"Sun comes for your kneecaps" glitch lives rent-free in my head

[@Lucan47]

@@quantumblur_3145 lol is there vídeo of this anywhere? Sounds hilarious

[@vincenttrigg4521]

Better than random space Angler fish

[@pluv1e]

Supposedly if you go too far out the autopilot will lock on and try to move you back toward the sun, so that's probably what happened

[@jlco]

​@@pluv1e you can actually prevent this by having something (anything) targeted

[@Jarlegand]

Holy shit man, I literally thought to myself today "it would be cool if RT would play this game". You are the best, keep on Rumbling and Tumbling

[@Saltience]

evidence of quantum observation

[@mylocoley3579]

Came for the *You have 22 minutes until the solar system is destroyed* Stayed for the cool art, cool aspect of the game, and cuz RT made a video on it. I'm gonna lose an hour and a half for this cool game

[@cosmiclikesminecraft]

Is that the Nintendo direct meme? Really disappointed they just flat out said that in the trailer

[@ed_cmntonly]

​@@cosmiclikesminecraft for real you know how SMG4 had a entire meme for that? Thanks to Nintendo's ass marketing we missed a whole new ton of players playing Outer Wilds

[@th3crazyguard1an85]

"lets go to dark bramble next" couple minutes later by the satellite "actual horror game right now" oh buddy you had no idea :)

[@rocketbat02]

The phone's ringing, I think it's the DLC.

[@WackoMcGoose]

36:10 "Oops. _Teeth."_

[@hopin8krzys]

Im addicted to Outer Wilds playthroughs. I always watch them, even tho I know the game inside out and it takes a lot of time. I just love how different this game is to everyone. Each person playing this can have a really different run, discovering things at various speed and order

[@vyveryncore9186]

I started playing it a few weeks back myself, and after a while I was reminded of just how TERRIFIED I am of space. Walking around the black hole was one of the more stressful things I had to do, what made it worse was the fact that the surface was falling apart as I was going which ended with me being stranded. I nearly had a heart attack when I decided to jump in xD

[@anthonybowman3423]

I love space and the black hole was really neat for me, but I was utterly terrified in the dark bramble. This game has so many low key terrifying moments. I loved it, but I never want to go to dark bramble ever again.

[@alexsiemers7898]

@@anthonybowman3423 I felt this especially because I remember hearing about the black hole having an exit point before playing the game myself.

[@The.Reilly]

So glad that more people are finally playing this masterpiece. Now do the DLC that turns it into a horror game.

[@elemangell2981]

OH GOD DAMNIT RT's finally playing this game so now I HAVE to play in order to watch this. Thanks a bunch for subjecting me to what is definitely going to be an immensely enjoyable experience. >:(

[@TheRedstonian]

Let us know how it goes! It's genuinely my favorite game of all time, having dethroned my nostalgia favorites.

[@DerNeik]

Well deserved GOTY 2019! Glad you finally played it! BUT: You've gotta play the DLC aswell, it's almost as long as the original game and it's just as awesome! :) And it's quite different in terms of storytelling and gameplay!

[@SchaffnerMovies]

I second that. I didn't even get to finish playing the dlc yet, so would love to see how Dan will react to it!

[@suspicioustoaster3766]

EOTE is fucking terrifying sometimes, I think adding Dan to that equation would be amazing

[@pikariocraftf2802]

@@suspicioustoaster3766 - I am so ready. Initially I had a comment typed out about some of my feelings during EOTE, but I'm not going to post that, it didn't contain any plot spoilers but still I think that it would be better without knowing the things I went through.

[@rasin9391]

Yeah would be so sad if he didn't play it!

[@suspicioustoaster3766]

@@pikariocraftf2802 absolutely it's best not to spoil it. I think It would be fun to watch Dan flail around with all the new concepts again.

[@jakecoverdale462]

This is honestly the perfect dream video I didn't know I wanted. Rt brings so much to these heavier games and it has plenty of room for goofs with the wacky physics. I hope he does the dlc if he hasn't already.

[@cyprusby1061]

It's the miracle of video games. Just look at how romantic the game presents the beauty of science of the universe and the human spirit of exploring. Can't even fully express my compliment

[@oliverlarosa8046]

I think I'm starting to understand why RT doesn't have a driver's license.

[@JubioHDX]

i mean, this is the same guy who didnt learn youre supposed to let go of the accelerator when you break until he livestreamed forza😂

[@sketchygato7847]

I love watching you play these more…not necessarily serious, but more story bound games. It’s a very nice break, but still full of lovely commentary. Thank you for everything RT

[@WutWo]

I’m so happy RT played this game because it deserves all the attention it can get. This game is absolutely heartwarming and amazing.

[@eggyboi3524]

For many years I avoided watching every playthrough of this game, hoping that I'll be able to experience the magic of its story by myself. But that day might never come if all the things are to proceed as they are now. Thank you very much RT for this weirdly fantastical and bumbly experience , always love your content!

[@MrDefender1234]

It is always amazing to see people play through this game, especially when you watch people like RT just randomly Bumble through half it. That's the beauty of Open-World games I guess lmao.

[@void-creature]

It is geuniely remarkable ho long RT took to even FIND OUT the sun was exploding

[@tea_n_ink]

this was the most fun i've ever had watching a stream since miitopia, i had so much fun chatting in the discord and having poor sods try and explain to me quantum physics as my brain fried

[@plum8503]

Ugh crap, that indeed was wild, for people who play the game it's one time experience. And for me, an observer, it's always like the first time. Mannn that was such an adventure, I absolutely love this game and it being on your channel only makes it better. Once again thank you so much for this playthrough, I enjoyed it, can't wait to see more of your meta theoretical quantum smart words smart words adventure in the Echoes of The Eye DLC!

[@moonie.e]

It is kinda sad to me how he didn't get to know all the other characters that well. How will he ever know that Chert goes into a mental crisis over the supernovas? It's the only minus for me in this let's play. ;-;

[@MaybyAGhost]

I downloaded and played this game on a whim about a month ago. I expected a bit of fun, not a life-altering experience. So happy to see one of my favourite creators playing it, excited to see how things go throughout the vid!

[@SkyeBerryJam]

I noticed for the first while you instead of slowing down to land, got confused and absolutely just slammed into the ground. I'm proud of you

[@quantumblur_3145]

Impeccable piloting

[@barkleyu]

It's a tradition for me to comment how great of a game this is on every Outer Wilds video in the universe, glad you played it Dan.

[@ptprojektred]

Petition for RT to play the DLC Echos of the eye aswell. I think he would love it

[@chulabro2436]

I tried avoiding any type of outer wilds content so I can forget everything and play it all over again, but I just can't help watching a new player go through this amazing journey 😩 glad you enjoyed RT!

[@OblivisciMortem]

Surviving in the wild, mankind's greatest challenge! 💜

[@ratonellewah6058]

The inspirational "omg spaceeee" music while RT and his spacecraft drown in a pool. Best game 10/10.

[@rivulet5417]

Edit: Rain Worlds also getting a DLC that's basically a sequel Hey RT If you liked this game You'll love Rain World Imagine the intensity and world exploration of this game The Harshness of S.T.A.L.K.E.R With a Metroidvania spin and beautiful graphics with the smartest most vivid worlds in gaming 20/10 whooped my ass you love it please stream it

[@Jadesnake]

YES

[@Jadesnake]

true

[@rivulet5417]

@@Jadesnake kek

[@somethingelse9598]

So true

[@woomiiakarandomveemo5933]

YES

[@sprucefox2239]

It brings me *SO MUCH* joy to see my favorite youtuber play my favorite game and WOW WHAT A PLAYTHROUGH. The luck and insane happenstance that led to RT's discovery of the Sun Station, the ATP, and especially the Self Ending easter egg just baffles me. Absolutely the wildest ride I've seen anyone take in this game.

[@gibsy4843]

Ive thoroughly gone through this entire game, and still, every time I watch someone play for the first time, it feels like im playing it again for the first time too, this game is amazing

[@benbellomy2590]

I smiled so hard when I saw the thumbnail. Outer wilds is probably my favorite game I’ve ever played, and have been waiting for a KZbinr I watch to experience it as well

[@team4star1]

I’m genuinely ecstatic to watch RT play this, I didn’t have the foggiest clue he was with my work and all.

[@HazeEmry]

...?

[@team4star1]

@@HazeEmry ¿…

[@HazeEmry]

@@team4star1 idk why I thought that was an appropriate reply when I just woke up. Meant to ask, what do you mean by "with your work and all"

[@team4star1]

@@HazeEmry i have a job, which gives me money, so I don’t exactly watch streams

[@HazeEmry]

@@team4star1 I interpreted it as the game was your work and you were excited to see him play it. Misunderstood the comment then 😅

[@matheusGMN]

This game is literally about the friends we made along the way

[@salamanda550]

God, I wish I could experience this game for the first time all over again. I still cry buckets at parts of it...even knowing they're coming.

[@Starling135]

This game is literally life changing and I love it so much. I can't wait to see how RT handles everything! Seriously though, if you've never seen this game, I would seriously recommend you play it first before watching RT. It's been ages since I played it and I still wake up thinking about it.

[@nephedel5949]

Thanks for playing this game, it's the type of game that is enjoyable to watch others discover and you can only discover yourself once, so you seek out let's play to live that experience one more time, the dlc for outer wilds is also outstandingly good!

[@seithiophi666]

As Space Core once said: “I’m in space… SPACEE!!”

[@TrefferVLPeace]

The sun gives me absolute anxiety, you know that it will inevitably go supernova but with the way this video is cut you never know when as a viewer. Scarier than any Horrorgame and movie

[@soggydeadwolf1981]

Outer Wilds was my favorite gaming experience of the last few years and watching this video was like living through it all again. Wonderful job.

[@Floydknight]

you know when an RTGame title ends with “for the first time” it’s gonna be good

[@Lumenadducere]

I had covid (still recovering) while this stream was happening and it was so nice to watch RT play through while I was sick. One of my favorite games of all time.

[@cachotognax3600]

props to the editor, she did an amazing job.

[@X-SPONGED]

The infinite cycle repeats and The Universe begins anew. A Conscious Observer went into The Eye of The Cosmos and stared back at it. Causing a Big Bang and restarting a chain of events that will eventually loop onto itself and cause another Big Bang. The Universe is just a rewinding tape that plays itself over and over again with slight variations from the previous cycle.

[@chaoticgoodra]

Ok so, speaking as a big outer wilds fan, I watch a LOT of people play this game. I think RT is the first person who's been too SMART to figure out a lot of clues that I've seen? Man figured out a lot of the warp tech without needing the black hole forge, he skill-flew over the cacti rather than use the sand... like, wew, impressive

[@heroyearsley-prior4951]

and got to the vessel without seeing the nomai grave first

[@VeeFerns]

how did literally everyone else who played outer wilds, not talk to chert later on in a loop very early on in their play through, learning that the supernova is completely natural because of that

[@lunaris3983]

Every time we get one of these hour long videos I appreciate it even more

[@Kizitty]

I think my favorite quote from this game is "Science compels us to explode the sun!" Such a metal saying.

[@DragonaxFilms]

Y'know, you'd think after watching a dozen supercuts of this game, I'd be over it. But nope. I still cry at the ending. Masterpiece.

[@sunblade52]

i feel this quote says everything there is to say about outer wilds without spoiling anything The Outer Wilds. There are so many games out there that feature space travel and yet none of them really get it. The horror of an endless dark vacuum so intent on killing you that just 90 seconds in its inanimate presence is more than enough to freeze, suffocate, and explode you inside out. Space is literally the worst place in the universe. People always think of space as above us, but it's not really; you don't have to look up to see space, you have to look away from safety to see space. Then, when you're out there in the nothing, there are jewels; un-process-ibly large balls of fire and light held together by our own fucking anger, rocks that can range between husks of nothing or everything some life ever knows, and an endless amount of phenomena that would take our scientific knowledge and fuck it from arsehole to breakfast. But video games just don't get it. They just don't get space. Video games set in space are either just men with big swinging dicks firing at bug-eyed monsters or fucking truck driving simulators. If exploration does happen to be the focus, you'll find out that the main difference between the endless majesty that is life in this universe is the color of the fucking grass. Yeah, you're in space but it feels inaccessible like a fingerprint wouldn't take on it; like it's behind glass. The Outer Wilds - fucking hell - the Outer Wilds gets space. It doesn't care about scale or scientific accuracy, it gets the feel right. Yeah, your ship's made from wood and the majority of planets are the size of of a badly stocked Ikea, but watching all the stars in the sky go out one by one like far off fireworks and knowing that each one could be destroying an entire history and having to do that fucking every 22 minutes -- nothing. Nothing has made me feel like that before. No game, no book, no movie. It's beyond extraordinary. Its planets - fuck - its planets; each one a bizarre impossible place riddled with life and death and decay and nonsense. Each one dense in history and vandalized by time. Each one nightmarish and so, so beautiful and in 22 minutes, they're gone because the Outer Wilds isn't even really about space, it's about the question, the most important and terrifying and unanswerable question anyone ever asks: Why? Why bother? Why bother with any of this? People die, stars burn out, the universe will go quiet and dark and cold and in the longest run, nothing - absolutely nothing matters. Everything dies, the universe included. So why sit around the fire, playing music into a void that doesn't care? Why huddle around the light? Why play? Because, well - look at it. It's mad, all of it. Life is a big stupid blob of meaningless nothing. Yet from that, we find meaning. People, things, animals, art, sofas, cereal, Rubik's cubes, silly little games about space, whatever. None of it matters in the grand scheme - fuck the grand scheme! There's no logical reason for life and nobody's gonna mourn it when it's gone, but that's what makes it fantastic. Life is a little song that we hum to ourselves and, I wouldn't want it other way. The Outer Wilds is an optimistic game about nihilism. It's a game with no invisible walls, you can complete it in ten minutes if you know what to do - which you won't for hours - and the only limit is knowledge. It's a game literally like no other. The universe is big and long and impossible and daft and you, you happen to be experiencing it at the exact same point that you can play the Outer Wilds as well. Embrace that coincidence. Come on, what are you waiting for? The sun could explode tomorrow." - Daniel Hardcastle 2019

[@leerylynx]

Amazing quote. Really conveys what it’s like to play this game

[@axy8265]

This video legit got me to buy and play all of the game before seeing it, it was one of the best experiences i got in a good while, thank you so much RT

[@Loki-vl9vp]

So glad you got around to playing this masterpiece, you should really check out the dlc as well, it's a slightly different kind of experience but just as high quality as the base game

[@mamie8734]

i am BAFFLED as to how rt managed to get in the bramble and do all that shit without KNOWING THE ANGLERS ARE BLIND!! And THEN on top of that he made the assumption I did in my game, of "oh I use my jetpack outside the ship" instead of "move the ship then stop so it drifts". that's crazy

[@timewalker4653]

My favourite game of all time, I'm glad you are introducing such a large audience to it and I'm extra glad you enjoyed it.

[@ConnMannMusic]

I’m so glad you didn’t skip through the story elements. It’s so fun to watch someone else piece together the puzzle! I remember when I first got the game I just started flying around thinking I could find weapons or something lol

[@nairobi8056]

Ah outer wilds. The game that can only be experienced truly in the first playthrough. And then it loses its touch. I wish I could forget this game, just so I could play it again for the first time.

[@mamie8734]

44:40 just said aloud to myself "he is not gonna live this, he hasn't been using his scout for pictures"

[@pixeldemon6173]

Ah yes, the joy of terrifyingly realistic death noises

[@switch382]

Dan I am so happy you finally got around to playing this, its an all time fav, amazing journey!

[@AcePilot-mn2fj]

You fool, now that you’ve played the base game, we’re gonna do nothing but request you play the DLC! Nah, but jokes aside, I’m excited to see my favourite game played by my favourite streamer!

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

Name anything more iconic than turning on the autopilot and immediately flying towards the sun.

[@NightBread]

I still really wish RT had played the DLC for this game, I would have loved to see how he somehow breaks the story progression of that one.