The Outer Worlds

 Xbox One
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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 814 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 625 out of 814
  2. Mixed: 102 out of 814
  3. Negative: 87 out of 814
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  1. Quentdawg420
    Jan 30, 2020
    4
    I tried with this game. I really did. I love new vegas and when I saw obsidian made an original IP I was super excited. But this game is just boring. I felt like I was just doing fetch quests all the time. And also the inventory management system is absolutely terrible. I’m glad I got this for free with game pass. Otherwise that would’ve been 60 dollars down the drain
  2. StNorbert
    Dec 11, 2020
    2
    This game is best summed as boring and repetitive. The story is boring, the characters are generally unlikeable and uninteresting, the combat is repetitive and you’ll discover that the game only has maybe 10 different enemies, which you will encounter constantly. The only reason I can see as to how this game managed to review to well is because everything else that was released around theThis game is best summed as boring and repetitive. The story is boring, the characters are generally unlikeable and uninteresting, the combat is repetitive and you’ll discover that the game only has maybe 10 different enemies, which you will encounter constantly. The only reason I can see as to how this game managed to review to well is because everything else that was released around the same time was even worse.… Expand
  3. metadubrev2
    Jan 1, 2020
    3
    among the most tediously boring games i've ever played. very little action. gameplay is all tedious dialogue choices with an uninteresting story, little action, a lot of item management, lots of travel, collecting minuscule amounts of ammo and zillions of worthless items to sell. missions/quests are generally something like travel back and forth slowly with long transitions just toamong the most tediously boring games i've ever played. very little action. gameplay is all tedious dialogue choices with an uninteresting story, little action, a lot of item management, lots of travel, collecting minuscule amounts of ammo and zillions of worthless items to sell. missions/quests are generally something like travel back and forth slowly with long transitions just to collect an item or make a single interaction with a character that's hard to find sometimes even going back and forth several times. it's just horrible and boring.… Expand
  4. Gilgamesh
    Feb 9, 2020
    4
    Nowhere near as fun as the Fallouts. Story boring. End cutscene long and boring. Too much loading and bland dialog.
  5. JackWarr
    Nov 18, 2019
    3
    Every aspect of this game quite frankly sucks. Story, character and dialogue all are written very poorly, it is clear that it was cobbled together with little care or thought, Dialogue for side quests especially simply does not make sense, the worst offender being the MSI and Iconoclast storyline with the control pod or whatever. it just simply does not make sense, some goon wants toEvery aspect of this game quite frankly sucks. Story, character and dialogue all are written very poorly, it is clear that it was cobbled together with little care or thought, Dialogue for side quests especially simply does not make sense, the worst offender being the MSI and Iconoclast storyline with the control pod or whatever. it just simply does not make sense, some goon wants to dethrone some other goon for reasons combined with some poorly explained plot twist (for it to make any sense you need to read a terminal or something, terminals are for extras and secrets not crucial plot info.) Combat sucks, exploration sucks (literally non existent), enemies suck (there are like 6), loot sucks, dialogue options suck, character creation sucks and is also redundant in a fps, characters are like robots apart from companions and Phineas, and the game just ends in an anti-climax, as if they said **** what do we do now?" Fallout 4 is leagues better as a Bethesda rpg and that had a voiced character and limited dialogue options due to it, but at least that benefitted somewhat story wise. This game doesn't benefit at all from any design choices, its just a plain generic bore.… Expand
  6. Kezblez
    Nov 2, 2019
    1
    What an absolute piece of crap. How on Earth did this get over 8??? It started off with great potential but then it was finished in a heartbeat and incredibly anti-climatic. I also got the impression that the Social Justice Warriors had been involved as most of the main characters seemed to be women with blue and purple spikey hair. What an absolute waste of my time and money! I can'tWhat an absolute piece of crap. How on Earth did this get over 8??? It started off with great potential but then it was finished in a heartbeat and incredibly anti-climatic. I also got the impression that the Social Justice Warriors had been involved as most of the main characters seemed to be women with blue and purple spikey hair. What an absolute waste of my time and money! I can't believe this cost the same as games like Fallout 4 and any of the Mass Effect franchises, those were games with real scope and imagination. They had all these quirkey characters but your interactions with them are absolutely minimal, you don't even get the chance to build any kind of relationship or connection with them. What happened to Obsidian??? So disappointed. The game that promised so much yet delivered so little.… Expand
  7. MrTusks
    Nov 19, 2019
    4
    I have learned that I cannot trust professional game reviewers. Get a game for free, get paid to play it, and finish the whole thing in the 20 hours you budgeted for it before you have to play something else? 10/10, the return of proper Fallout!

    This is not proper Fallout. Fallout 4, for all its faults, is a much better Fallout game, and Fallout 4 is a pretty bad Fallout game. But even    I have learned that I cannot trust professional game reviewers. Get a game for free, get paid to play it, and finish the whole thing in the 20 hours you budgeted for it before you have to play something else? 10/10, the return of proper Fallout!

    This is not proper Fallout. Fallout 4, for all its faults, is a much better Fallout game, and Fallout 4 is a pretty bad Fallout game. But even on its own, Outer Worlds is pretty lackluster. The adventure is on rails, stats and consumables don't particularly matter, and the environments are small. There is no point in exploring because you will get a green blip leading you to literally everything in the area eventually.

    The game only scores as high as it does with me because it fooled me into thinking there was going to be more for a decent amount of time. There is not more. I paid for a month of Game Pass for this and I am thankful that's all I spent.

    That said, leave that anti-SJW nonsense at home. Yes, there is a lesbian, and yes, sometimes a woman will be in charge. If this is a threat to your fragile masculinity, please feel free to recede from modern society and leave the rest of us alone.    … Expand
  8. JayDarbz
    Nov 3, 2019
    4
    I love obsidian so it brings me no pleasure to say this but I really hate almost everything about the outer worlds, I like the colour pallette but the game just did not gel with me in the slightest.
  9. CesarBxDsantist
    Nov 8, 2019
    4
    Ótimo game, espírito de fallout com mass effect, só dei 4 por causa dos textos que são muito pequenos.
  10. thomc
    Nov 21, 2019
    0
    I've tried to play this game a couple of times now, but I just can't get into it. It seems like run of the mill bullet sponge shooter, with boring fetch quest missions, mediocre voice acting, boring worlds, and boring npc's that you can't interact with. I really don't understand why people love this game so much, though I suspect it might have something to do with fo76 being such anI've tried to play this game a couple of times now, but I just can't get into it. It seems like run of the mill bullet sponge shooter, with boring fetch quest missions, mediocre voice acting, boring worlds, and boring npc's that you can't interact with. I really don't understand why people love this game so much, though I suspect it might have something to do with fo76 being such an abysmal failure, and people just need to stick it to Bethesda.

    I loved New Vegas. The way that game made you feel like you had an impact on the game world right from the first mission was amazingly well done.

    This game has none of that. Everything feels like a chore with no consequences of your actions other than a little notice that you treated one faction badly and I guess they don't like you now? I wish I could understand what ppl are so stocked about, I just don't get it...    … Expand
  11. KTLeander
    Oct 29, 2019
    1
    So Im about 14 hours in. Its have been some-what entertaining so far. Altough Im unable to tell anything good that would be special to this game. I am however able to tell what is not:

    - Itemization: Its just horrible. Lots of grab filling your inventory and most of the stuff that drops is worthless. Also the color-pallet is horrible on most of the items. Also lots of different items    So Im about 14 hours in. Its have been some-what entertaining so far. Altough Im unable to tell anything good that would be special to this game. I am however able to tell what is not:

    - Itemization: Its just horrible. Lots of grab filling your inventory and most of the stuff that drops is worthless. Also the color-pallet is horrible on most of the items. Also lots of different items that mess your inventory, but do exactly the same thing.

    - Worlds feel too small. You dezert a company and go hiding and build a new community 400m from your old one? Ok. The settlements are interesting, but the spaces between those are uninteresting.

    - Every position of Power has so far been occupied by a woman and all the males are either whimpering soyboys or idiotic grunts. If I dont find a lore-reason for this Im going to go with SJW-pandering and this alone gets -3 points.

    - Also some people are getting a "anti-capitalist" wipe from this game? Anyone with a brain notices that if you replace "board/company" with "The State" its a full on communism. Again political indoctrination without even being right -1 points.    … Expand
  12. Tronyel
    Oct 31, 2019
    0
    Introduce politics in a video game, less than 60 hours of gameplay, lots of bugs plus a copy paste gameplay from another franchise
  13. AceAscendus
    Oct 31, 2019
    0
    Very disappointing game and frankly a waste of money and time. The gunplay is worse than previous Fallout games, how do you even manage to do that? The RPG elements are extremely shallow, there is no depth, evry choice feels the same, the game is just boring. It is clear that Obsidian is not the same developer they used to be in the past, they have gotten rid of all their talentedVery disappointing game and frankly a waste of money and time. The gunplay is worse than previous Fallout games, how do you even manage to do that? The RPG elements are extremely shallow, there is no depth, evry choice feels the same, the game is just boring. It is clear that Obsidian is not the same developer they used to be in the past, they have gotten rid of all their talented developers and replaced them with unqualified people, sad but true.… Expand
  14. Sheldoncurtiss
    Oct 26, 2019
    3
    Better than Fallout 4 but worse than Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

    This game is one of those games that starts strong then the layers peel off once you start to get into the game. I can't recall a single characters name because they were so boring. Inventory is clunky. Leveling kinda sucks. Perks kinda suck. Options kinda suck. Weapon and armor modding kinda suck. No grenades. Look I'm    Better than Fallout 4 but worse than Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

    This game is one of those games that starts strong then the layers peel off once you start to get into the game. I can't recall a single characters name because they were so boring. Inventory is clunky. Leveling kinda sucks. Perks kinda suck. Options kinda suck. Weapon and armor modding kinda suck. No grenades.

    Look I'm impressed with the lack of budget they were able to make something this solid. But I found myself playing this more like it was doom or something since I didn't really care. I eventually gave up all together once I hit the third world because I was just so bored.

    The weird SJW motives forced into the mix on top of this just gross me out. For instance the default character is a black lesbian woman, which I'm sure is the majority or gamers playing their game obviously so it just makes sense for them to try to appeal to that large portion of the market. Not only that but there's this awkward forced in side quest where for 30 minutes you have to assist a lesbian in pursuing her sexual interest.    … Expand
  15. DiccDastardly
    Nov 3, 2019
    2
    Let me start by saying that when not in a loading screen the game to me is the sort of thing I like.

    Fallout Vegas I loved and this is very similar, even graphically. I like the old school design to it. The storylines, side quests, ability skill trees all there and are great. There are little imperfections such as the objective markers which are set on the entry points of areas rather    Let me start by saying that when not in a loading screen the game to me is the sort of thing I like.

    Fallout Vegas I loved and this is very similar, even graphically. I like the old school design to it. The storylines, side quests, ability skill trees all there and are great. There are little imperfections such as the objective markers which are set on the entry points of areas rather then where you actually need to be but, this is something you get used to and can work round. I have also come accross various clipping issues and the odd missing NPC but these in themselves are infrequent and do nothing to detract from the game itself. Melee feels pretty clean and you do feel you are making a connection onto an enemy rather than swinging wildly. Gunplay is excellent with the variety of weapons and the ability to be able to modify each weapon with add-ons and also to increase the level of each weapon by tinkering. All in all pretty solid so far.

    I have managed to complete the game but have given up doing the side quests due to the biggest issue of the game, as mentioned, Loading times. If your a completionist you will find this more of a chore than enjoyable.

    When so many of the quests are of the basic go, fetch and collect variety you need to travel back and forth a great deal. Therein lies the almost gamebreaking issue.

    Each loading screen lasts for 45 seconds on the Xbox 1x in 4k and then a further 20 seconds. or so, once it has loaded for the map to actually appear or NPC's to to talk to you. Without giving any spoilers away, one simple mission involved me having to travel to an area, fast travel to an area within that area, collect an item (which took 5 seconds) and then return to the ship and then return to the quest giver..thats in excess of 3 minutes waiting for a 5 second job. You will be travelling hundreds of times during the games length so minutes will become hours fairly rapidly. For a game which is not particularly graphically challenged, and in 2019, is this the best we can expect ?

    Travelling to new areas is common most games. A long loading time for a complete area is fine if it means no fast travelling loading times within each area and for a game like this would surely have been not the best option but the only option.

    If they had thought and fixed this major flaw then this would have been an excellent must have game but for me, completing it was almost a relief due to this one issue and not a game I would return to again unlike Fallout New Vegas.    … Expand
  16. mstromley
    Oct 29, 2019
    1
    Controls, graphics, menu design, targeting, weapon design and character advancement are the worst I have ever seen. Good writing ends up being irrelevant in a game that frustrates the player enough to quit and find something more enjoyable. To make matters worse, the games starts like a poorly designed copy of Mass Effect Andromeda's story idea. Both of my boys (ages 9 and 17) hated theControls, graphics, menu design, targeting, weapon design and character advancement are the worst I have ever seen. Good writing ends up being irrelevant in a game that frustrates the player enough to quit and find something more enjoyable. To make matters worse, the games starts like a poorly designed copy of Mass Effect Andromeda's story idea. Both of my boys (ages 9 and 17) hated the game as well. The 9 year old said he would rather stare at the wall than play this game. I have played every rpg since SSI's gold boxes. I am willing to bet that every positive review of this game was made my people that never played the game or never played longer than five minutes. Considering that this game was created by one of the best video game creators in the world, it makes you wonder if someone intentionally sabotaged the production to embarrass the company.… Expand
  17. Stopdumbingdown
    Apr 22, 2020
    3
    I gave this game 3 opportunities and now I must say it stinks. Boring combat, boring gear, boring perks. All skills ez to master: thus, zero effort, zero meaning.

    Story and writing are subpar. The writing is Regressivism on parade: trannies, dykes, sissy men, sodomites, socialism. Social INJUSTICE Pansies. ILLUSION of choice, consequence and meaning. Bland, boring, static    I gave this game 3 opportunities and now I must say it stinks. Boring combat, boring gear, boring perks. All skills ez to master: thus, zero effort, zero meaning.

    Story and writing are subpar. The writing is Regressivism on parade: trannies, dykes, sissy men, sodomites, socialism. Social INJUSTICE Pansies.

    ILLUSION of choice, consequence and meaning.

    Bland, boring, static worlds/environments.
    Enemies are the same all game long.
    Poor Ai.

    Loot is a bore and meaningless.

    Superficial, lacks intelligence.
    Zero innovation, zero surprise.

    Barely an actual Rpg.

    A casuals dream.

    Obsidian joins the beth/bio dimwit club

    *New Vegas is one of the greatest rpgs ever, btw    … Expand
  18. Trovaga
    Jun 25, 2022
    0
    One of the most soulless games I've ever played.

    Buildings, zones, trees, loot containers, objects, towns, ALL of these things are ugly, bland, boring and it makes the entire world utterly forgettable and uninteresting. Characters without soul, dialogue completely cookie cutter unmemorable nonsense. Atrocious combat, horribly lackluster weapons. And top that off with constant    One of the most soulless games I've ever played.

    Buildings, zones, trees, loot containers, objects, towns, ALL of these things are ugly, bland, boring and it makes the entire world utterly forgettable and uninteresting.

    Characters without soul, dialogue completely cookie cutter unmemorable nonsense.

    Atrocious combat, horribly lackluster weapons.

    And top that off with constant long loading screens and about 20 fps with drops and stuttering.    … Expand
  19. Alexandre07
    Oct 26, 2019
    2
    graphics on the Xbox got pretty weak well below the trailers, and the system and game story end up boring, outdated gameplay, trying to be a fallout and bioshock and ultimately failing both
  20. CaptainCuckold
    Oct 27, 2019
    0
    This game is not worth the time spent playing. Forget Mass Effect, The outer worlds replaces Commander Shepard with joke captain of a ship that no one respects.

    To sum up this game with one word "bland" at no point do you feel cool or powerful just a boring joke character that everyone disrespects constantly. The story is poorly written and simple to follow the companions are all    This game is not worth the time spent playing. Forget Mass Effect, The outer worlds replaces Commander Shepard with joke captain of a ship that no one respects.

    To sum up this game with one word "bland" at no point do you feel cool or powerful just a boring joke character that everyone disrespects constantly. The story is poorly written and simple to follow the companions are all disrespectful towards the player character and there is no option to stand up for yourself you just have to agree with whatever idiotic thing they say. It isn't an RPG so much as it is a shooter on rails you have no choice.

    The gameplay itself is inferior to Fallout 4 and Mass effect Andromeda (Yes worse than ME:A) you get about 20 hours of gameplay it tries to copy other games too much and falls flat (Fo4,ME:A,Borderlands)

    The companions themselves make me just want to put them in an airlock and blast them into space. You seriously couldn't make a single companion that is likable? Even ME:A did this!

    We need to face the facts. The Obsidian that made Fo:NV peaked with this achievement and has been dishing out slop ever since. Obsidian is dead    … Expand
  21. DarkLordAlu
    Oct 25, 2019
    2
    I bought this game in last night play it about three four hours of the game it is boring it puts me to sleep I cannot get into it this is definitely if you want to play it rent this game or get it in Game Pass it is not worth the $60
  22. qsdrdrhy2
    Oct 26, 2019
    0
    I find the over saturated colour palette to be a real problem, it makes things awkward to see, the game got kinda boring and repetitive with fetch quests and locations that were not very inspiring.
  23. TonyC_714
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    If I wanted to play a games that looks like it was made 10 years ago, I still wouldn’t have bought this one. Such a let down.
  24. robbiesjustaguy
    Oct 30, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Really wanted to play this game, but the crosshairs keep drifting, constantly. So annoying that I just sent it back. I saw on reddit that other people had the same issue. Annoying af.… Expand
  25. Hasbeen
    Jun 10, 2020
    2
    Another unforgivably bad port. 2 points because at this point with such an abysmal library if such hit garbage available it's no longer 'shame in you' as much as it ishoconsu. re on me'. Nintendo has absolutely no standards at all when it comes to third party shovelware. The games review industry is a complete and utter sham. Enemy if mindful consmer, and pure shill, at the rawest.
  26. Broyax
    Jun 8, 2021
    2
    Après une période de kickstarters et productions louchant un peu trop vers l’indé, Obsidian revient au triple… non plutôt au double A, ce qui n’est déjà pas si mal et on s’en réjouit tout à fait : à partir de l’Unreal 4, le studio renommé s’est assez bien débrouillé et propose un jeu agréable graphiquement parlant et qui tourne quasiment sans à-coups… (en 4K sur la One X et en merveilleuxAprès une période de kickstarters et productions louchant un peu trop vers l’indé, Obsidian revient au triple… non plutôt au double A, ce qui n’est déjà pas si mal et on s’en réjouit tout à fait : à partir de l’Unreal 4, le studio renommé s’est assez bien débrouillé et propose un jeu agréable graphiquement parlant et qui tourne quasiment sans à-coups… (en 4K sur la One X et en merveilleux 60 im/s sur la Series X).

    Le dégré de finition est d’ailleurs assez étonnant de leur part… et à part un ou deux détails, aucun gros bug à signaler… sauf vers la fin justement avec un gros plantage des familles : une porte s’ouvre, le « personnage non-joueur » est là avec ses gardes et… un beau, un magnifique CTD (crash to desk ou dashboard) ! heureusement, au lieu d’avancer et de déclencher le script foireux, il suffit d’ouvrir le feu et de zigouiller tout le monde et on peut continuer sans problème…

    Je me disais aussi, Obsidian reste Obsidian après tout… mais on constate de gros progrès néanmoins depuis… un certain New Vegas à cet égard. Quoi qu’il en soit, s’il ne s’agit pas d’un monde ouvert, les diverses zones sont fort sympathiques et une certaine liberté d’action demeure, notamment au niveau des choix, lesquels sont encore augmentés si vous avez la langue bien pendue via les compétences adéquates.

    Le combat n’est cependant pas extraordinaire et fait à peine le boulot, pour ne pas dire pire ; l’interface se révèle plutôt efficace, la musique est agréable mais les voix sont restées en anglais uniquement. L’infiltration est un peu à la masse par contre… pour ne pas dire assez mauvaise. En vérité, le souci majeur de ce petit jeu de rôle (une trentaine d’heures grosso merdo) réside dans son univers lui-même : c’est en effet très conventionnel et souvent fort mal écrit…

    C’est que sous son humour sans nuances, pour ne pas dire souvent stupide, sous ses airs de dénonciation des corporations omnipotentes et cyniques, se cache un agenda de justice sociale aussi limité que simplet. Le fait qu’on puisse se comporter comme un salaud ne change pas vraiment la donne : le jeu n’est de toute façon pas assez sérieux pour se montrer crédible sur quelque sujet que ce soit.

    Il n’est pas assez mordant non plus et fait penser à des blagues de collégiens rebelles et faussement désabusés : une caricature désoeuvrée de leur travail sur Fallout New Vegas en somme. En outre, si le jeu est assurément très joli, son allure steampunk est des plus désagréables. Voilà qui est décevant de la part d’Obsidian et décidément peu inspiré : les compagnons dans le jeu peuvent en témoigner, eux qui sont des baudruches bourrées de poncifs, génériques et façonnées selon les lois de la diversité et de l’inclusivité.

    Par ailleurs, la trame principale est un peu faiblarde et insuffisamment développée… L’ensemble qui semblait prometteur reste trop léger et manque singulièrement de maturité.    … Expand
  27. Mindurbidniss
    Apr 1, 2023
    4
    Rarely an RPG. So full of unlikable characters, all with the same agenda. Also the sense of exploration is laughable compared to New Vegas. The FPS combat isn't very compelling either, this also goes for melee combat. Overall I guess the biggest issue is just how budget everything feels. The writing, combat, sense of freedom and exploration, all just leave so much to be desired. Just stickRarely an RPG. So full of unlikable characters, all with the same agenda. Also the sense of exploration is laughable compared to New Vegas. The FPS combat isn't very compelling either, this also goes for melee combat. Overall I guess the biggest issue is just how budget everything feels. The writing, combat, sense of freedom and exploration, all just leave so much to be desired. Just stick to the classic RPG'S… Expand
  28. Dragonlord573
    Jun 1, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Outer Worlds is among the most uninspired games to come out in the 2010's. After 38 hours of playing and dealing with the drivel that is this game's forgettable main and side quests, I can certainly say that this game is but a soulless husk of a game that can only be described as nothing more than mediocre. The story centers around reviving the colonists of The Hope, which you were amongst before being revived. After being released into Edgewater you are shown the lackluster speech checks which will often be at values spanning from 1-60. Yes, there are checks at the value of 1. Apart from just maxing out the skills to get the bonuses there is little reason to actually max out any of the speech skills, I had 100+ persuasion from companion perks (base of 68) and not once did I ever see any speech options that exceeded 60.

    While traveling through Edgewater you get a taste of the poor excuse of the corporate dystopia the game is trying to have a satirical take on, but every time it devolves into "corporations are stupid." The game beats you over the head constantly with this "joke" that it started making me question just how a revolt hadn't happened yet, after what, ~50 years, no one had actually tried to over throw the board? The game seriously believes that I'll accept that there isn't any noticable unrest? But anyways we were talking about Edgewater, which is a small town that is dying out due to starvation, malnutrition, and a plague. Nearly all these issues wouldn't be a thing if it wasn't built upon volcanic rock. Because volcanos are a great place to settle down next to.

    At Edgewater you're given the task to find a power source for your ship, which you can find two of, one at Edgewater and the other at a botanical garden. But because player freedom is nigh non-existent you are railroaded into doing a quest to reroute power from one settlement to the other. Only afterwards you can actually take the drained town's power source.

    Edgewater is generally considered the best part of the game due to it having choices between factions and being a fairly balanced location. Afterwards however you will only find one other location with any similar depth, that being Monarch, and it's completely optional.

    Apart from Edgewater and Monarch the other locations are fairly lackluster. There is Scylla which is just a failed terraforming location filled with annoying primals to fight and nothing else. The section of Terra 2 with the Auntie Cleo's research settlement is an optional location where you can obtain some science projects to sell for money and not much else. The Groundbreaker is a colorful place full of stores and has a couple of quests that'll have you do some running around and not much else. You can betray Dr. Weales here as well, but other than the prospect of bits (the game's currency) there is no reason that anyone would do it other than out of curiosity. Though the corpo side of TOW is much the same as the normal side of the story. You are also able to do some quests for a psychopath who is the CEO of a salvage network who sends you to murder an innocent woman who is trying to save the entire colony from starvation, and the game can railroad you into murdering her as even if you allow the woman to live her guards will attack you and she, for some stupid reason, will attack you completely negating your choice in the matter.

    The only other location you can explore is Byzantium, which is where a then rich live and everything you do here, be it sneaking through, or going in guns blazing and executing everyone in the streets and the colony's minister, will have no consequences. You can commit political assassination and terrorism and nothing will happen. No matter how awful you act towards the board you will never actually be harrassed by them and apart from increased prices from vendors and guards attacking you there is no reason to even be worried about having low reputation with the various factions unless it is something like MSI or the Iconaclasts if you want to deal with their fued on Monarch.

    The game then finishes with a Fallout style slide show where nearly all the slides depend on who you chose to ally with and makes nearly no mention of the many choices you made throughout the game apart from the fates of companions, Edgewater's fate, and the fate of MSI and the Iconaclasts. Only 3 choices dictate nearly all the slides in the ending.

    In conclusion The Outer Worlds is a soulless game with conflicting messages from how the game acts. The game focuses on dialogue, but ends with a shoot out. Only three of your choices matter in the ending, but none of them actually affect the world while you play it. With a price tag of $60 you would be better off spending your money on a game that is more deserving and worth your time. Mayhap when the DLC is released the game will actually amount to something, but a game shouldn't rely on its DLC to actually be good.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#11 Best Xbox One Game of 2019
5
#5 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. The Sydney Morning Herald
    Nov 19, 2019
    87
    The Outer Worlds is a well-written, novel, gorgeous roleplaying game, made for today using some of yesterday's best tricks. If you fall into the trap of using fast travel it can feel like ticking off to-do list items instead of adventuring. But if you force yourself to slow down and let the sharp dialogue, otherworldly vistas, and intriguing characters work their magic, it's one of the best roleplaying experiences of the last few years.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Nov 18, 2019
    80
    It’s a familiar template that The Outer Worlds builds itself around, but the depth and wit within its universe invites you ever-deeper. There’s social commentary and late-stage capitalism gallows humour all over the place, but it’s the richness of its imagined future that really holds the attention. [Issue#184, p.84]
  3. Xbox Tavern
    Nov 6, 2019
    78
    As a recent addition to the Microsoft Game Studios family, Obsidian have put their best foot forward with The Outer Worlds. Solid gun play, an engaging story with great, likeable characters and a world that is fun to explore and interact with. Some missions let the side down a little and the game could be bigger but with so many nods to the great RPG predecessors and taking the best elements from them this is a great game to pick up.
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