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Outer Wilds

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jKaiser jKaiser's picture
Outer Wilds
Nerdcubed recently did a little introductory video for this game (see it here), and it prompted me to download it. It's currently an alpha and very early on for that matter, but it's totally free, and anyone who has some nostalgia for 90s and early 2000s style platformer graphics and space exploration should try it. It's a charming little game that I've sunk probably five or six hours into now, trying to wrap my head around some of the mysteries and exploring the different planets. It also does microgravity very well, which is something I've always wanted more of in games. I will warn you, it's highly recommended you play it with a controller, and if you're going with a keyboard, be sure to check the key bindings from the launcher, because there's no in-game indication what the keyboard controls are. Again, alpha build. http://outerwilds.com/ for download.
SquireNed SquireNed's picture
Finally got around to testing
Finally got around to testing this out. It's actually pretty good for being in alpha; I didn't encounter any weird glitches, and I think I burnt two or three hours without realizing it (I didn't check the time when I started, but it was pretty late when I quit). Unfortunately, the autopilot tended to take me directly into the sun, or drop me off directly in front of a place that was going to be another planet's orbit, so I died a lot.
jKaiser jKaiser's picture
Yeah, I got plunged into the
Yeah, I got plunged into the sun a few times too. And the volcano moon. And slingshot sans ship right into another planet. Though I've had good luck by boosting myself a few hundred m/s on roughly a perpendicular angle retrograde to the planet I want to go to and then engaging the autopilot. It usually tends to swing around the sun that way.