However, I won’t be talking about the story at all, and I really won’t be talking about the locations either except in the broadest possible terms. If you continue you should know I’ll be doing a somewhat detailed exploration of Outer Wild’s mechanics and structure, and that this does constitute something of a spoiler because the mechanics are woven into the story and how the locations work. If you want to remain completely unspoiled I suggest you stop reading now. I found Outer Wilds fascinating on two levels: in the creativity shown when putting together its world and locations, and in the way it plays around with the traditional structure of adventure games. So this review will be a sort of a compromise. But I can’t really talk about why without spoiling at least part of what made playing it such an outstanding adventure for me. I experienced all of those and more during my time with Outer Wilds I visited a host of exotic locations and gradually unravelled a mystery and I was utterly enraptured almost until the very end of the game. And you should play Outer Wilds, I think, as it’s an exceptional game, capable of eliciting feelings of wonder and delight and danger and terror in equal measure. If you end up playing Outer Wilds I’d very much like you to have the same experience. I knew almost nothing about it going in save that it was a game about exploring set in space, and I ended up being blown away by the scale of its imagination and its capacity to surprise me.

It’s all about the thrill of exploring the unknown and the joy of discovery, and in order for the unknown to remain unknown and the discoverable to remain discoverable anyone playing Outer Wilds has to go into it almost completely blind.

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