Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition

Ranks in the top of my favorite games. Unique in its essence, amazing in gameplay, and incredibly sound. Definitely recommend it to everyone

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Hard to describe what I felt spending many hours on it but I easily can say it’s a very unique journey and one of the very best experience I had the chance to live since I started playing video games in 1991. (I have played to so much different things that this media can offer since). If you enjoy movies in the likes of « Interstellar », « Apollo 11 » or other « Gravity », « First Man » (etc…I guess you’re seeing ), if you like and understand Jeff Mills’ Something in the Sky projects and if you are attracted by astronomy in general and/or are too tired of classic sequences of events in an adventure where the logic system works with « go here », « do this », « then do a that », « go to that point to unlock this », « then you can go there to speak to… », « then you…………etc etc etc… » : You should try OUTER WILDS (️ DO NOT confuse with « The Outer Worlds » which has absolutely nothing to do with it ️). Only curiosty, your knowledge of the universe and the addition of your « in game » experiences will help you to understand what you have to do, where you have to go. You only own only a cool spaceship and a « logbook » to discover the « world » – the logbook helps you to remember what you saw, what you did, what you learned, what you lived). It’s really up to you to find the way to complete your the story. Nobody experiences the things in the same way. This « game » (I can’t seriously continue to say it’s a game ’cause it’s a lot more than a video game) is my GOTY 2023 by very far, although I played so much quality great games. OK, that’s right, this is not a AAA game with millions of investment which offers the most beautiful grafics of the media BUT the idea behind it, the level design, the atmosphere and the soundtrack as been done by so much talented people from an independant development studio, that’s so crazy. I can feel so much honesty and passion, i can clearly call this a masterpiece. A unique experience which deserves to be tried by all of you, open-minded people. It’s originality in the pure sense. The Nintendo Switch port is ok for me, I could compare with the Xbox Series X version and it runs great for this hybrid version. Some framerate drops, more loading times but I think it's normal, Also, I think it can help very much during these very difficult **** you’re interested, believe into me : DON’T LOOK any video or trailer. Try by yourself directly if you’re ready to live something really special. Hope you all will be touched as i have been incredibly by this journey. BIG THANK YOU Alex Beachum for the main idea of your study project. BIG THANKS to Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura ) and all of the Mobius Digital Games team for what you have done. The love you putted on this project amazed me. Thanks to Annapurna Interactive. And a VERY BIG UP to Andrew Prahlow who have done a wonderful work on the soundtrack, it fits so perfectly with this journey. I sincerely hope to have the opportunity in the future to be able to experience something so powerful like that.

I wanna like it more but I feel like I dnt know what I’m doing. Usually I’m ok with games that don’t hold your hand, but for some reason I still feel lost in Outer Wilds.