Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds is a 2019 game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. It is a first-person view adventure game with focus on exploration and mystery-solving, as the player controls a rookie astronaut who explores their solar system and uncovers facts about the mysterious alien Nomai who inhabited the system long before the player character's people.
==History==
See Wikipedia
It received high praise from both industry reporters and players. It was named "Game of the Year 2019" by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian. . Accessed 23 July 2022. 
==Canon==
The game is about exploring the various planets, astronomical bodies, and spacecraft of a solar system and uncovering the history and records of the Nomai, a vanished alien species who inhabited this solar system long before the protagonist's species.
===Gameplay===
===Story===
Characters	Locations
Hearthians:
* Player Character (aka "the Hatchling", "Time Buddy", "the Protagonist")
* Esker
* Gabro
* Chert
* Riebeck
* Feldspar	Astronomical bodies:
* Timber Hearth
* Attlerock
* Giants Deep
* Ember Twins
* Brittle Hollow
* Dark Bramble
* Quantum Moon
* The Interloper
* The Eye of the Universe
Nomai:
* Pye
* Cassava
* Poke
* Solanum
* and many more	Constructed Locations:
* Hearthian village on Timber Hearth
* White Hole Station
* Sun Station
* and many more
Echoes of the Eye DLC:
* unamed alien species 
* The Prisoner	Echoes of the Eye DLC:
* The Stranger (an abandoned O'Neil Cylinder)
* the dream world/simulation
==Fandom==
* Fan names for the player character. ("Granite" is a prominent one from a popular fic"Granite is pretty much my go-to hatchling to write for Outer Wilds anything so they get to shine for a while", Author's Note from Let's Not Face Oblivion Alone)
* Fan names for the aliens from the DLC: the OwliensExample youtube comment by Neff Sos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iRCPMBQouA&lc=Ugy2PcuKGb6FVHE7OsF4AaABAg. This moniker was widely adopted in the comments to Playframe's letsplay of the game, the Hoot Hoot Menfrom PeriPapaya, "owlks" or "sleestelk"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Oj-3ODVaY&lc=Ugxm-Etg16RqUgWwJtB4AaABAg Youtube comment from DaveLH: "I'm sorry the Stranger's race have no official name -- The Lore Explorer calls them "Owlks" (portmanteau of "Owl" and "Elk"). Following a similar reference to the elk-like antlers, I like to refer to them as "Sleestelk", because to me they have a similar creepy vibe as the "Sleestak" race from the classic TV series "Land of the Lost".", "The strangers" "Deer people" "The aliens"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbpUCg7b-9Q&lc=UgwqBvUbOeZjXhYlMjx4AaABAg Youtube comment by Mallk238: "My friend and I always called them Owlks Because they look like owls with antlers so owl-elk--->owlks I've also heard them called "The strangers" "Deer people" "The aliens" all kinds of things."
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* -- fanart and game pitch by mcnostril, 2021
*, by limegelatin, 2022
* fanart of Pye by sleepii-moth, 2022
*, by lys-d-raev, 2022 -- fanart of the player character and Gabbro on Giants Deep
*, fanart of the DLC by Luneyes, 2021
===Videos===
* by dynamotoon and desolozantas-blog, 2022
*, animation featuring characters from the DLC
===Fanfiction===
* by Ghosts_Multiversal_Mindsoup -- "Have you ever noticed how Solanum, when telling you she'd like to be your friend, wrote her message in the shape of a heart? I didn't, not until a bit ago."
*, by CorundumBleu
* by PoisonHemloc -- AU in which there are six Nomai statues
===Zines===
*, completed September 2022 (itch.io link
===Other===
* by boatwontfloat, 2022 -- cosplay of Gabbro
* by fauxbia, 2022 -- compilation of all Nomai dialogue and writings found throughout the game.
==Communities and Resources==
*
* at Mobius Digital Games' website
*, fan-run mod site
*
*, fan-run discord
*Outer Wilds Wiki at Fandom.com
==References==
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