Action · June 18, 2020

Outer Wilds (2020)

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Winner of Best Game at the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards and 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. Welcome to the Space Program! You're the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. Mysteries of the Solar System... What lurks in the heart of the ominous Dark Bramble? Who built the alien ruins on the Moon? Can the endless time loop be stopped? Answers await you in the most dangerous reaches of space. A World That Changes Over Time The planets of Outer Wilds are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time. Visit an underground city before it's swallowed by sand, or explore the surface of a planet as it crumbles beneath your feet. Every secret is guarded by hazardous environments and natural catastrophes. Grab Your Intergalactic Hiking Gear! Strap on your hiking boots, check your oxygen levels, and get ready to venture into space. Use a variety of unique gadgets to probe your surroundings, track down mysterious signals, decipher ancient alien writing, and roast the perfect marshmallow.

Action releases from 2020

236 Action titles launched in 2020 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume84.5k Steam reviewsTop 8% in Action
Positive rating96% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 9%
Metacritic85/100Genre average 77 — top 19% of Action titles
Concurrent peak928 playersTop 10% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours15 h averageTop 34% for session depth among Action

Peer Action titles

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Exploration · 1.3k
  • Space · 1.1k
  • Mystery · 981
  • Story Rich · 961
  • Adventure · 889
  • Great Soundtrack · 844
  • Atmospheric · 818
  • Puzzle · 771
  • Open World · 730
  • Singleplayer · 690
  • Indie · 616
  • Sci-fi · 610
  • Horror · 589
  • First-Person · 568
  • Beautiful · 548

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Spanish - Spain

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Turkish

Reception Metrics

Steam community

96%Overwhelmingly Positive · 84.5k reviews

81.1k positive · 3.4k negative

Metacritic

85/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.2/10

Curator recommendations

78.5k

Peak concurrent players

928

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“It's a mystery that spans multiple worlds, after all, and untangling it is a delight.” 89/100 – PC Gamer “A hallmark of excellence.” 5/5 – Destructoid “...a rare adventure game in which the journey is actually more of a reward than the destination.” 100/100 – Slant Magazine

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

15h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

7h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

31

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJun 18, 2020
DeveloperMobius Digital
PublisherAnnapurna Interactive
Base price$14.99 -40%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksMetacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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