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Outer Wilds

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Developer
Mobius Digital
Publisher
Annapurna Interactive
Franchise
—
Release date
Jun 18, 2020
Store page updated
Jul 30, 2026
Price
$24.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

94.9/ 100

Based on 357 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 95% of 1,158
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 108,061
“best game ever played, had to call off work, emotional impact”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.22
Freedom +4.43

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Story & World
+3.94
World +4.72
“permanently impacted worldview with existential depth” (147)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.23
Replayability +0.19

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Visuals & Sound
+4.12
Audio +4.50
“耳朵怀孕 (amazing soundtrack)” (20)
---{ 画质 }--- ☐ 无法和现实区分 ☐ 赏心悦目 ☐ 很美丽 ☑ 一般 ☐ 差 ☐ 别看太久 ☐ MS-DOS ---{ 游戏体验 }--- ☑ 非常好 ☐ 好 ☐ 普通 ☐ 差 ☐ 无聊 ☐ 发呆都比这个好玩 ---{ 音乐 }--- ☑ 耳朵怀孕 ☐ 非常好 ☐ 好 ☐ 能听 ☐ 烂 ☐ 会耳聋 ---{ 受众 }--- ☑ 儿童 ☑ 青少年 ☑ 成年人 ☑ 老年人 ---{ 配置要求 }--- ☐ 能完扫雷就行 ☑ 土豆 ☐ 中端 ☐ 中高端 ☐ 神机 ☐ 神威·太湖之光 ---{ 大小 }--- ☐ 软盘都装得下 ☐ 小 ☑ 中 ☐ 大 ☐ 会吃掉你15%的硬盘空间 ☐ 一整块硬盘 ☐ 试试把游戏装到黑洞里 ---{ 难度 }--- ☐ 只用按住'W' ☐ 轻松简单 ☐ 入门容易 进阶难 ☑ 需要思考 ☐ 难 ☐ 《黑暗之魂》 ---{ 肝度 }--- ☐ 护肝 ☐ 如果你在意排名 ☑ 非必要 ☐ 中等 ☐ 肝痛 ☐ 肝一辈子 ---{ 剧情 }--- ☐ 没有 ☐ 一些故事 ☐ 一般 ☐ 好 ☐ 精彩 ☑ 第二人生 ---{ 时长 }--- ☐ 通关可以退款 ☐ 短 ☐ 中等 ☑ 长 ☐ 我能比它先死 ---{ 价格 }--- ☐ 免费 ☑ 原价入 ☐ 等打折 ☐ 如果你有钱 ☐ 不推荐 ☐ 为什么不试试直接烧钱 ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ 没几个 ☐ 小

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Multiplayer
+3.75

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Community +3.00

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+3.20

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +3.20

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Tech & Ops
-1.72

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

Stability -0.50

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Jun 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,158 reviews, peak 52/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 17

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 351 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English29%
  • Chinese23%
  • Russian12%
  • Spanish10%
  • Portuguese9%
  • French7%
  • Other9%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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