Game

The Outer Worlds

2019 · Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

82IGDB player score
661 ratings

Previously Take

An 82 average from 661 ratings. Does what it sets out to do, no more and no less. Role-playing in the deep end, from the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas — science fiction, open world, character builds you'll theorycraft about, and a world that rewards curiosity. Solo only, and better for it — this is a one-player experience through and through.

Awards & honors

The Game Awards 2019

Game of the Year — Nominee

About this game

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.

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.