How Outer Wilds Shook Me To My Core

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• LO

  @logicaldude3611 · 2 years ago

  You discover that you can’t escape death.  But it somehow makes your life meaningful.

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• MR

  @MrFreakRite · 4 years ago

  &quot;as the credits hit, I wept&quot; <br>Me too bro. Me too. I cried in front of my son and told him this was the best in gaming I&apos;ve ever experienced.

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• XJ

  @xjamiec · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way, you know? - Gabbro

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• FL

  @Flemmonade · 4 years ago

  Thank you so much for this video! The saddest part about Outer Wilds is that there&apos;s no way to experience it again, but this video feels like it lets me do just that. It felt like I was sitting down with a good friend and listening to the unique stories and experiences they had with the game! It&apos;s a video I feel like I&apos;ve been subconsciously begging for forever, so thank you!

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• JE

  @jessw.sheridan7186 · 2 years ago

  This game finally broke me with a single moment. I had flown miles away from the solar system to watch the nova from a distance, and I happened to pull out my signal scope. Hearing the traveler&apos;s melodies dip out one by one made me break down crying for the entire duration of the next loop

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• LI

  @lissagaiasmit · 2 years ago

  this game has made me feel real true grief for a universe that never even actually physically existed. i fully believed &quot;this is a video game there has to be a solution&quot; i wanted to bring feldspar home, i wanted to stop the supernova and the sheer helplessness i felt at the sun station is indescribable. <br><br>the ancient glade is truly one of the most beautiful places in the end. and it shows you that things end and that is okay.

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• NI

  @Nikolai0169 · 4 years ago

  To me the message of Outer Wilds is this:<br>Death is inevitable. No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you learn, you can not change this one fact of life.<br><br>One way or another, death will arrive. <br><br><br>But it doesnt have to be the end.

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• TH

  @ThatOneLadyOverHere · 4 years ago

  Once I learned what happens I thought the goal of the game was to stop it and then was absolutely devastated when I started to realize that wasn&apos;t going to happen. Then I just wanted to be able to lead other characters so they could experience something important to them in at least one timeline. (Specifically Reibeck, he just had to go down a wall and across a bridge and he would see the ancient civilization! I know he was scared, but it was a pretty safe trip before the bridge is broken.)

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• OD

  @OddSanity · 11 months ago

  3 years.. this video is 3 years old and I recently just beat outer wilds. The feeling this game gave me.. no other game has made me feel the way this game has. It truly is a masterpiece. One of a kind game

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• 7R

  @7REY1017 · 4 years ago

  “It’s tempting to linger in this moment while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.”<br><br>I think this quote at the very end of the game sums things up very nicely. When you’re not certain you want to move on, Solanum gives you these words. And I think this can be applied to your situation and many others. Thank you for sharing something so deep. I felt the same way when I played the game, and that reflection into yourself is the reason this game is amazing. You can run, and waste valuable time forever. Until you’re out of that time. Until you face things head on, and face the inevitable, your fears will never be anything more than possibilities. Time will never stop for anyone. But the journey and the way you spend that time is ultimately the most important part. Nothing lasts forever, and that’s ok. We may never get to experience some things that we wish to, and we may miss out on things we so desperately want to see or hold on to. But the important part is that we’re here right now, and we’re given this time and opportunity of life, love, fear, and even death as a gift. Your favorite movie would feel pointless without an ending. Your day at work can feel meaningless until you clock out and go on doing what you want to. And life would be meaningless without death. Uncertainty is in all things, but facing that discomfort is what makes everything you do in this life worth it. Thank you again for this video. This game is truly one of a kind!

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• KI

  @KitKatHexe · 6 months ago

  Unlike many stories with similarly morbid themes, Outer Wilds isn&apos;t about the inevitability of death, but the beautiful impermanence of <i>life.</i> It&apos;s about connection, and loss, and triumph, and grief, and fear, and resolve. It&apos;s about so many things that make life, life.<br><br>I&apos;ve lost quite a few people in my life. Both Outer Wilds, and its DLC, have been an immense boon in helping me come to terms with the fact that those people are gone. And I am so glad I had the privilege to know them.<br><br>There will never be another experience as viscerally transformative as this game. And my heart weeps in somber joy whenever I recall it.

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• CR

  @CrispyGFX · 1 year ago

  Man, I have a pavlovian response to the first guitar strum of the timber hearth theme. I just hear that one single note and I start to get choked up.

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