DLCThe Outer Worlds: Expansion PassFeb 10, 2021Requires the base game
Release
Friday, October 25, 2019
Critic score
86/100
Platform families
4
Editorial overview
What it is
The Outer Worlds is a new single-player sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
The premise
In The Outer Worlds, you awake from hibernation on a colonist ship lost in transit to its destination on the edge of the galaxy, only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds.
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later than you expected only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
Welcome to the future - try not to break it.
More like this
Obsidian Entertainment · Private Division
Connected releases
6
Game data from IGDB
Play styles
Single player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action · Science fiction · Open world
Languages
12 supported
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E3 2019 Trailer
Trailer
Trailer
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End Slide Narrator
Clive Lumbergh
Minister Aloysius Clarke
ADA
Lionel Witherspoon
Celia Robbins
Hermit
Adelaide McDevitt
Charles Rockwell
SAM
Parvati Holcomb
Phineas Welles
Hiram Blythe
Sanjar Nandi
Graham Bryant
Zora Blackwood
Vicar Maximillian DeSoto
Felix Millstone
Gladys Culkelly
Clyde Harlow
Reed Tobson
Rufus Trask
Isadora DeSoto
Marilyn "Ellie" Fenhill
Sophia Akande
Junlei Tennyson
Catherine Malin
Theodora Fenhill
Lilya Hagen
Additional Voices
Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III
Udom Bedford

Xbox Series X|S
Gen 9

PlayStation 4
Gen 8

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PlayStation 5
Gen 9

Xbox One
Gen 8

Major add-ons
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Store collections
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Restored
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Unreal Engine 4Nintendo Switch
Gen 8