Outer Wilds: Strange things in a Stange Universe until the Sun explodes

[Whirligig Girl]

Don't look at the trailer. Don't read this. Play (at as high a resolution as you can manage). It only takes 20 minutes. Then explore some more' date=' and come back when you're done.[/quote']

Here's Outer Wilds if you haven't seen it. Play it, it's awesome.

The goal isn't building and flying a ship, landing it, and coming back home. The goal is to fly out and just explore the solar system, finding everything you can. This might entail doing real science, Flying around, landing on planets or their moons, and exploring everything the planet has to offer. It's not really that much like KSP. There's some orbital mechanics, but you're pulled on by every planet, while the planets are only pulled on by the sun. You don't have to worry about Delta-V and usually you don't have to worry about thrust, so you can brute force everything. (In fact, the autopilot automatically uses a Brachistrone transfer)

There's also some fun things to explore on Timber Hearth(The home planet), such as a model spaceship and a museum full of cool stuff.

Here's something I didn't find until after around my 8th playthrough. (8th time booting up the game, not 8th time respawning) People have noticed the black hole/white hole of Brittle Hollow, and the Anglerfish inside that gnarled thorny one, but one thing I didn't see for quite some time is a celestial body that appears in orbit around other planets, but where it is is constantly changing whenever you change your view. It doesn't show up on any computers. I had to do a full approach, but when I switched to landing view it moved again. I once even saw it orbiting the home planet of Timber Hearth. I finally decided to just brute-force it. Found where it was at that time, thrusted directly towards it until I crashed, and I just sort of fell through. When I came out, both it and I were in orbit around a different planet suddenly.

I think it's related to that strange sculpture in the Observatory Museum.

Incidentally, I now kind of want someone to do a planet pack in KSP that resembles the planets in this game in a Kerbal scale. But this is probably impossible, because several places are hollow.

Edited January 11, 2015 by GregroxMun

[Special Agent Sigvan]

This reminds me of Little and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (The early version), Overgrowth, Tower of Guns and things of the like from my early days as a PC Gamer.

Ah, memories.

[megatiger78]

great game. played it several times.

the moon you were mentioning is the quantum moon BTW. you can land on it, I managed to once.[/sPOLIER]

[astropapi1]

Oh, I remember playing this, lots of easter eggs and good replayability.

One time I approached a moon called Dark Bramble. I tried to follow one of the black things into the center of the moon, but saw a bright light and thought it would lead me to a clue or whatever interesting things are called in the game. Needless to say, it did not lead to a good interesting thing.

EDIT: Found it!

[megatiger78]

the download version is broken. cant start it.