Outer Wilds

2019 adventure/mystery game where you explore a mini solar system, flying around in your little moon lander and following clues about a ancient alien explorers in 20 minute loops, as the sun keeps exploding and resetting you back to the beginning.
Played in summer 2020, after hearing good things and a colleague at work highly recommending it. I wasn't that fussed, disappointingly! It's highly praised online, and sounds good in concept, but something just didn't grip me. I found it kinda boring. The solar system feels so small and easily traversed, there's no progression, and the whole shtick is following clues to unravel the story of the precursor aliens but there are so many clues just littered everywhere, always in the form of conversations written out on walls, that I wasn't excited to keep exploring. I played several loops, exploring different planets, and each one had some gimmick that was quickly understood, and bombarded me with more text to read from the aliens. It didn't help I think that the precursor aliens seemed very straightforwardly kinda normal in their personalities. They weren't weird or mysterious or even very professional or competent, despite being supposedly advanced space-faring aliens.
Anyway, I played it for a bit and wasn't inspired to continue, so I consider it discarded. 0.
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Category:Video games
Category:2010s video games
Category:Video games played in 2020
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Category:Space video games
Category:Adventure video games
Category:Mystery video games
Category:PC video games