Why Does Everyone Like Outer Wilds?

Outer Wilds is pretty peak, to be honest. Hollow Knight, Pizza Tower, and Helldivers 2. What's really special about Outer Wilds though is how unique it is. never before have I played a story based Video Game that is anything like this. If you walk away from this video not wanting to buy Outer Wilds, please find a different person who can convince you better than I can because Outer Wilds is a game I think everyone should experience. It looks good, it plays good, and it has good music. Not much else you can really ask for in a video game. SO PLEASE play Outer Wilds!

[@Zandofle]

Fun fact, but also spoilers. If you start a new game and exhaust all of Hals dialogue in the museum, Hal mentions that a piece of the nomai statue was chipped off and used to make your ship’s computer, since the nomai statue is made of a material that can store information. This explains why your ships log stays updated throughout the time loop, it’s connected to the same statue you are.

[@Dokkobo]

I learn something new about this game everyday, that’s amazing!

[@kaptainflare]

dementia maxxing

[@cakewithbeans245]

God that end is so real, I WISH I COULD FORGET IT ALL TO RELIVE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN

[@Nalrats]

believe me, we all do!

[@bobblehead7002]

It's honestly life-changing. Puts lots of things in life into new perspective

[@Rytio_]

It really does…

[@VeeFerns]

0:32 there *are* other games like outer wilds, one's called echoes of the eye (outer wilds dlc), one's called the outsider (outer wilds mod), one's called astral codec (outer wilds mod), one's called evacuation (outer wilds mod), one's called the vision (outer wilds mod), and those are just ones I've played.

[@LuckyEnder101]

there are other games like outer wilds: proceeds to list outer wilds 6 times. No non-Outer Wilds game will ever compare to Outer Wilds or any experience inside of it.

[@kaptainflare]

@@LuckyEnder101 word

[@kacin1292]

You missed the joke mate.

[@sleeper6548]

This game genre should be called "Wilds like"

[@Rytio_]

I’m stealing this joke in the future, just letting you know

[@zortnet]

outer likes

[@ReverendTed]

I believe they've been termed "metroidbrainias" in some circles - where the gating elements aren't powerups, but knowledge.

[@sleeper6548]

@@ReverendTed personally, I have seen both "Metroidbrania" and "Wilds-like" being used to describe this game in some outer wilds community I am in

[@maulibe7631]

The authors talks about "metroid-brainia" i like it

[@HiroTeaShi]

I watched a play through of this game never expecting to play it myself. Cycle a few years later, I bought it on sale and started playing it. I regret having spoiled the game for myself. But it was still a wonderful experience playing the game my own way. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I haven't seen any of the DLC content, so I got to experience that terror completely unspoiled. 10/10 game

[@Sef_Era]

0:40 The best I can recommend is ‘Return of the Obra Dinn’; I’d strongly recommend playing *that game* blind, as well.

[@josefranciscoromomendoza5656]

Yes, it is the closer one. Another great game

[@FrxstEditor]

I bought it, played for around 5 hours and dropped, I still want to start playing again. It's a game that I felt so dumb while playing it lol, but it's great tho

[@LukasJampen]

Just hearing the end music at the end of your video made me slightly tear up. In all my time playing games I never had a game that had the same effect on me as outer wilds. Similar maybe (Journey for example) but they were all still different games. This works only as a game. As a movie or book this would have nowhere near the same impact. Everybodies playthrough is slightly different and they'll discover stuff in different orders and have different conclusions for long parts of the game. Every planet and place to explore feels truly different and they aren't just the same planet with a different color. Despite being on a timer through the whole game I never really felt stressed unless I needed to get somewhere at a specific time to do something but even then knowing that I can fly to every place in the solar system in 2-3 Minutes lessens that a lot and even dying accidentally isn't a big deal as you'll be back fairly quickly. Only at the end will you feel truly stressed as that is the 1 time it actually matters.

[@Rytio_]

Yeah, I wish I could just go through it one more time, but that’s the beauty of it.

[@kodiakbricks5821]

In my essay about this experience, I referred to this phenomenon as the "illusion of the illusion of choice", where every lead ties into the greater mystery. I do like the way you sum it up, though, as arriving at a math problem's answer without using the methodology a teacher taught. Otherwise a short and sweet video, well made 🐻

[@Solsclar]

Nobody likes Outer Wilds. They love it. I think the only people who dont enjoy the game at all are people who play games like CoD and just want their games to be full of action and never pay attention go duolage or anything. A great example I saw of this was from a game journalist who was writing a review and it started off saying it was an okay game and listing why only to then state, "My biggest issues - a lack of comabt, direction, or martial rewards - are deliberately bold choices made by Mobius Studios." Like this review made me so mad and I started ranting about it to my friends who never played the game before but still agreed with me that it was a dumb review.

[@ReverendTed]

Haha! 0:27 - Syncing "special little game" with the Marshmallow stick twirl was, well - art.

[@VeeFerns]

3:08 theres a mod for that, it's called outer wives, you can marry any npc in the game.

[@Sylvatic98]

I ate a subway sandwich while going through the ember twin caves so now I just taste it whenever I see ember twin this game is the best one ever and it made me cry for the first time in a year :,)

[@ThatJay283]

how i feel about looking things up, is it CAN be done (as a last resort), but definitely try to even ask another outer wilds player for hints first. just know that when you find out via a spoiler, you will feel VERY silly. sometimes, something that is very easy for one person to pick up, can be EXTREMELY difficult for another person to get (like from a bunch of incorrect assumptions or just not seeing something that, in hindsight, is extremely obvious). but that's also just the outer wilds experience ::)

[@dbzfanatic2149]

Can I get a few hints then? I just started playing a couple days ago

[@ThatJay283]

@@dbzfanatic2149 what are you really stuck on?

[@dbzfanatic2149]

@@ThatJay283 Just trying to put everything together. I keep exploring all the planets but I really haven’t gotten anywhere

[@dbzfanatic2149]

@@ThatJay283 Just trying to put everything together. I keep exploring all the planets but I really haven’t gotten anywhere

[@pip2162]

@@dbzfanatic2149 any luck?

[@mario_gabriel]

SPOILER ALERT What I loved about the game is that it makes you think the stakes are at the level of your solar system, that everything in the story and stuff revolves around that. But by the end of the game you realize things were actually much bigger, it was about the death of the universe and how it's about to reborn.

[@markletourneau343]

Love the vid. You should try Tunic if you haven't already, it scratches a very similar itch

[@Rytio_]

I’ve heard of it, maybe I will some day

[@SolDizZo]

@@Rytio_ Great music at the very least. I listened to the soundtrack for Tunic for a while before playing and it was a very interesting lead in

[@mlgamings6110]

The thing is, the message and the story behind this game is simply one of the greatest I have ever seen in a video game. To be honest, Outer Wilds isn't usually my kind of game. I wasn't a huge fan of the 22 minute time loop aspect in Outer Wilds. I understand it's intrinsically part of the story, but gameplay wise, it always made me feel like I was in a rush to get things done. It was harder for me to enjoy things in the moment because in the back of my mind, I was always worried that I was going to run out of time and have to do it all over again. Not to mention some puzzles required you to be there at a specific time which was also annoying. But the message, story, music, and love in this story is simply more than enough to override the problems I had with this game. Absolutely incredible.

[@PloverTechOfficial]

I like PB without the J. 4:28 that’s one smooth transition Amazing, absolutely spectacular video. ::)

[@Rytio_]

I can’t even lie, that transition was a complete accident. It just sorta happened when I was putting the two clips together.

[@Thomalini]

Watching this feels like playing Outer Wilds, in all the right ways.

[@captionato]

man, i miss the feeling i got when i played outwilds for the first time. literally like no other. it is the reason it is my favorite game of all time. FUCK MAN, I WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN WITH NO MEMORY OF IT

[@Keyboardmasher1]

first time I played outer wilds I never got into it. im forcing myself to get used to the spaceship movement so I can finally play the campaign because I heard it was legendary and I have not at all been exposed to any media or spoilers of outer wilds by some miracle.

[@cachotognax3600]

There are a few games I'd actually consider close enough to outer wilds. If you want an open world mystery Paradise Killler is excellent, but not that similar in other ways. Similar note for The Return of the Obra Dinn and The Forgotten City. Also Heaven's Vault if you like story rich puzzle games. Tunic as already mentioned is neat but now I feel like I can't specify why without spoiling too much. Last but most similar... Void Stranger. Trust me it's a slow burn but trust me bro. None of these do ALL the things Outer Wilds did, but I wouldn't say there aren't any games similar to it, it's just that you have to go a lot more niche.

[@olchum7605]

I love games that don't insult my intelligence. It can be hard games like Souls likes or System shock or it can be relatively easy games like outer wilds, just please don't treat me like a lobotomized sac of meat who has to be given a small dopamine injection to justify opening my wallet

[@hologram1049]

Marvelous editing bro

[@Rytio_]

Thank you!

[@congregationn]

Wow, amazing video! and only 61 subs???

[@zimon85]

Very few games have puzzles that makes the player feel like they figured it out on their own. That perfect balance of level design to make rules easy to understand but the complexity so it’s not too obvious either. Portal 1 and 2, Chants of Sennaar and (arguably) FEZ are the only other examples I can think of but neither have the emotional and existential impact that Outer Wilds has. Paradise Killer has the music and exploration but not the puzzles. Ghost Trick, The House in Fata Morgana and To the Moon have that feeling of puzzling together the story piece by piece but lacks exploration. In the end Outer Wilds is unique. There is simply no other game like it.

[@Rytio_]

Exactly!

[@zimon85]

@@Rytio_Great video btw!

[@minerman60101]

You didn't mention TUNIC, so I am telling you you must play that game :)

[@zimon85]

@@minerman60101 yeah I’ve heard that. I have TUNIC and Obra Dinn on my list.

[@lukebenkart2411]

Dude this video should have 100x the amount of views it has

[@samn910]

There is no other game that can be 100% as good as Outer Wilds, We still like other games

[@zimon85]

Very true.

[@ameteuraspirant]

because it's a good game, next question.

[@leshiy_nd]

Nice video! Nice game. But I must say, I got a bit tired of this kind of video naming. Maybe that's just my thing, but when I see a title made of a question I immediately interpret it like genuine confusion from an autor. Like "guys, why the hell do you like this thing?". I mean if you not asking a question but stating it (to answer it in your video/essay/whatever)... Then you don't need a question mark. In the current example you (the author of the video (hi)) aren't really wondering why people fall in love with Outer Wilds - you're announcing the talk topic, which should preferably immediately translate into "the reason(s) why people fell in love with Outer Wilds". As I said, that may be just me. But I Really got tired of those confusing unnecessary question marks (:

[@donut__face]

5:16 bro so true😭 I looked up a guide once and I got spoiled on everything😔 still love the game tho

[@Rytio_]

That’s so unfortunate…

[@oceanallama]

I'll only search up a guide while playing if I know what the fuck is going on this place and what I need to, all I need to know is how to get past an annoying obstacle that I've been trying my hand at for about 5 hours. That's when I search up a guide and even then I get the bare minimun. Maybe this is just me justifying this for me, but I don't care, I've made significant progress in the game and it's been an amazing time, the reviews do not exaggerate.

[@Manimanocas]

That happens to alot of players, Its fine that you use a guide but atleast for me the fun was finding out things myself. Also that usually happens because people focus too much on how to get somewhere and just bang their walls against the wall until it works, the way I did it is that I either assumed I didnt have enough knowledge to progress or went to do something else to clear my mind. The important thing is asking the right questions and find an answer

[@Moleculor]

"...but there will never ever be another Outer Wilds." The crazy thing is... that there is a game that is (IMO) like Outer Wilds. I consider it to be the Citizen Kane of gaming, in the sense that it combined techniques other games used individually and used new techniques games hadn't combined or used before, and in so doing created such an inspiring game that it went on to inspire and flavor many games that followed after. Two games that have had designers directly cite it as inspiring parts of their gameplay are Dwarf Fortress and Mass Effect. Yes, two games that are about as different from each other as you can possibly imagine. And I can see its influences on games like No Man's Sky as well, and even Outer Wilds. It was a game that was made by a group of programmers who had never made a game before, in a garage, and published by Electronic Arts in 1986. That game was Starflight. In it, you play the fresh, new captain of a newly commissioned faster-than-light starship. Your goal at first is to simply explore, and to potentially find answers to how five sapient alien races came to live on the planet you now know was actually a colony, its history lost to time. Fairly quickly after your initial launch, your mission changes; find out why your sun is accelerating towards an explosion far earlier than its natural life cycle suggests it should. The explosion of your sun is on an inexorable timer, and in fact *every* star you can reach (something like 100 of them) is about to explode. And the longer you take to solve the mystery, the more of them explode. The story of the game is pushed forward by messages left behind by ancient and more recently disappeared civilizations and live conversations with spacefaring alien races. And the cause of the explosions is a plot twist that's been staring at you this entire time, but you don't realize it until it's finally explained at the very end. To be fair, it is narratively fairly linear (or tree-like? It's been a few decades since I've played it), so it doesn't have that same "web-like solution paths, find your own way of solving things" that Outer Wilds has. But I suspect what I described above does detail a lot of the *other* similarities.

[@rohe1790]

God, after finishing the video, I’m bamboozled on the low view count and number of subs

[@Rytio_]

Thank you!

[@bruhda7469]

The only truly unique game

[@kcclubkirby]

Im glad im not the only one who experiences buying my first house all the time. Does that mean you're also in a time loop?? 😆 But seriously great essay! I wish i could send this to my friend to hype them up, but i don't want them knowing about the time loop and supernova yet. Once they learn about those two things, ill be sure to send this over to get them hyped to continue the game. 😉

[@josefranciscoromomendoza5656]

What is the name of the intro song?

[@Rytio_]

Its from the outer wilds ost, believe its called campfire, been a while since I made this video. Its a trailer song though that doesnt appear in game, either way it is in the OST.

[@eoinokelly3080]

Do you have any spare micro plastics?

[@Rytio_]

I… can’t remember…

[@lamboking8able]

Like does not begin to explain it

[@Rytio_]

Lmao, true

[@kimballmorris9917]

this game is goated

[@Rytio_]

True!

[@zigzAgRL]

u Should try subnautica

[@Rytio_]

I already have! Not below zero, but I debated comparing Outer Wilds and Subnautica throughout the video.

[@claptrappington5895]

How are the marriages going?

[@Rytio_]

Y’know, they are… going….

[@daneelaart]

i see outer wilds as less of a masterpiece and more as a framework for a future masterpiece, someone will take this concept and do it better. i am ALL for artistic games that break every boundary, but this one was so lousily executed; for a game all about reading text and finding new things and clues about the world, the writing is extremely poor at making you care for any character, event, or the world itself. the game bored me out of my mind, and not in an artistically intentional way either (for example, omori - 80% of the game is boring and that is the point) and the ending made me go "that's it?"

[@jaelmayer]

what you said in the first thirty seconds is my exact view on games😆🥲