The Outer Worlds – Official Announcement Trailer

Watch the official announcement trailer for The Outer Worlds, a new single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. 

In The Outer Worlds, you awake from hibernation on a colonist ship that was lost in transit to Halcyon, the furthest colony from Earth located at the edge of the galaxy, only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy it.  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.  In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable. 

+Sea Raider At least you can actually run them.  I don’t know what’s up with my rig, but it refuses to even *launch* anything with Unreal Engine 4, claiming that I don’t have the right runtime even though I have it.  I’m not in the mood to mess around with a clean install right now, and I’m not ready to get a new rig built just yet, so until then I’m probably going to have to wait out Unreal Engine titles for the time being. 

I was going to fire up the new Call of Cthulhu for Halloween, but I couldn’t even get it to launch.  My whole evening would have been a wash, were it not for Toby Fox coming through at the last minute with a Halloween Miracle in the form of Deltarune. 

+CephalopodsRock Really?  This game has the aesthetics of a top-down isometric rpg based in barren, colourless landscapes and ruined cityscapes?  Don’t get me wrong, Fallout 1 and 2 are my all time facourite games, but this looks nothing like those aesthetically. 

+Ben Delat I disagree.  I think this has a much better blend of retro and futurism than the modern Fallouts.  The originals had pops of retro aesthetic, but where much more grounded.  The modern fallouts are far too goofy in their designs.  They completely misinterpreted the grim humor of the originals.  If FO 1 & 2 where turned into modern 3D games I think they would look just like this. 

Skyy | Editor I don’t think that’s true for much longer.  I was sceptical about Fallout 76 after playing 4.  Now that people have played 76 I don’t think many will instantly eat up anything they put out. 

+Seihai Team FS what only has 2 good ratings? 
and I’ll agree that the failure that is Fo76 definitely is helping this game out, i think many followers of Obsidian were excited when they said they were going to announce something today, regardless of the fo76 fiasco simply because Obsidian knows how to make good games

I really hope Obsidian’s recent acquisition by Microsoft doesn’t end up like Blizzard’s with Activision.  Obsidian (and by extension, Black Isle) is one of those rare companies left, with an impressive pedigree, and I would truly be saddened if they gave up making impressive games to focus on microtransactions.  Icewind Dale, PS:Torment, Baldur’s Gate, new South Park games, Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, and let’s not forget Fallout 2, one of the best games ever made.  An impressive resume in the RPG genre, to say the least. 

@Craig Morris – I was skeptical about Microsoft until I saw the comments they made to Obsidian about making a new IP (The Outer Worlds, I assume) shortly after I posted that.  Here’s the quote, for those who haven’t seen it: “He [Mike] said we [Microsoft] basically went in there to those companies and said: “what project do you wanna make?”  and they are like “what’s our budget?”  and he said “I don’t think you understand, that’s not our question, our question is what games do you want to make?  We are Microsoft and we have the budget, we just wanna know what game you want to do, what are your wildest dreams”.” 
-that’s very reassuring for me to hear. 

+brothertim I know people think that Microsoft ruined RARE but RARE got bad way before Microsoft acquired them , not to mention that Microsoft now has Phil Spencer so I’m not worried about Obsidian, if anything I’m happy that Microsoft’s next generation will have a lot better games and be able to compete with Sony. 

Thank you for giving us both taste of old hopes and beloved setting type together with a fresh wind of completely new adventure. 
You announced it and the trust in you just works. 
Guys, we love you.  Stay awesome. 

I knew Mr. House would secede in his goal with the ncr as the colonists to seed new worlds and insure the survival of mankind , plus the whole corporations running everything has house written all over it