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Playing this game is like being extorted by the local mafia. Grease the wheels and you'll have smooth sailing, even if the grease'll get more and more expensive; don't, and your business will go down with flames with only insurance left to dig you out.

The tanks are pretty cool, though. It's honestly nice as a 3D gallery of a whole bunch of tanks.

This is a bucket.
But wait, there's more!

While I might've clocked in only one hour in the game and, while the unique visual style and much of the short-form storytelling is great and more than justifies the fundamentally simple resource management game loop, it all comes through a very stilted text filter. It's as if most of the game has been Google translated from German to English. Proper technical terms get swapped with non-technical synonyms. Even the dubbed narration sounds deeply awkward.

The effect of the incongruous prose can be summed up by one achievement: "Short Circuit - Cross an Energy and Water Pipeline"
Crossing energy and water pipelines has zero gameplay impact for something that the player will likely do by accident, so I'd hardly call it a joke, much less an achievement. In fact, when I got the achievement I thought I did something wrong, prompting me to investigate whether anything has actually short circuited. And this isn't the only achievement like this. It just doesn't fit together.

Also of note; this game works just fine on Windows 8.1 despite the minimum requirements.

Playing this game is like having the worst LSD trip whilst simultaneously grappling with dementia. It's great.

Ever wondered what would happen if Yugoslavia developed its own nukes?

LATER EDIT: Further updates, looking from afar: the developers appear to have doubled down on writing a hackneyed story instead of making an actually good game. They seem to be making a visual novel with incidental gameplay than anything else, and allowing all but the visual novel aspects to suffer, even banking on the Early Access trope of going 1.0 with no real improvements -- in fact, since the time of this review, the game has only worsened. Such are the dangers of early access, but the sentiment still applies:

DO NOT BUY. Unless you're a fan of preachy story-telling and misleading marketing, I guess; or, if you can experience it, play the game before the 4.0 update when it was enjoyable.

I've played this game quite a bit on another account. I've had my fun, so I thought I'd get it myself, too. Unfortunately, I bought it after the 4.0 update.

Prior to the update, the task list system afforded you many ways to cut up and proceed with a hull and forced you to think about the best entry in the form of an elaborate and natural puzzle-game where you had to use your scanner and tools not to mess something up. Now? You're billed only by the kilogram. The mechanically-encouraged playstyle is to just launch the entire ship into the processor with zero regard for the cheap components. The latest update goes against the entire point of the game.

The game would be made better in all ways if the 4.0 update was completely reverted apart from its ship module additions. You no longer take ships apart to salvage as much as you can. You now shove an entire bifurcated ship into the incinerator and move onto the next slog. There is no point in going "full buffalo" even if you could. In fact, there is no point in playing the main story at all unless you like your videogames nonsensically contrived- the story which, by the way, forces your cooperation in a plot in which you have no personal stake, and is best served by totally ignoring it.

If I could still play it before this update – an update that has dumbed down the game's core loop, story and progression to a banal, repetitive state – I would, and as if removing the task list system wasn't bad enough, every time I fire the laser cutter there's a half-second freeze. Despite the devs' claims, the performance is far, far worse. Unfortunately, I can't trust them to do the right thing and revert the update.

Buyer beware ye access early.

Do you know that longing dissatisfaction you feel after finishing a really good book?

I've been following this game for a long while, and it has easily surpassed (most) of my expectations. I was surprised when the crusty but mostly whole demo was left in the dust by an actual game with far improved look and story – this one has a story. This game turned out to be a master in 'show, don't tell', and despite it taking less than 19 minutes to finish the entire game by design, it really is about the journey, not the treasure at its end. It is a game unhampered by most videogame preconceptions, a game which manages to tell its story through its mechanics, not despite them. The grand, impossible views it presented even in its fledgling form are still there – but augmented with the grand scale, clarity and complexity worthy of a true alien solar system.

The closest comparison I can think of is The Return of the Obra Dinn; it, similarly, is a crafted investigatory experience, but Outer Wilds offers the player fewer bounds and an open reign over the game's world, to explore as and however they see fit. This, of course, leaves more space for cracks in its narrative to show, but the sheer inertia of is enough to glaze over all of them. Many of the game's obstacles have multiple ways around them, and those which don't offer much explanation why. The gameplay loop may be frustrating at times, but the game offers you many alternatives to progress, including an in-game glossary of places visited or alternative routes and time-saving tips. Even the lessons needed to find the Sixth Location aren't strictly necessary, and can be inferred from two different sources. If all else fails, all you have to do to ignore the paved path is perform some spaceship parkour.

Outer Wilds would have been a near perfect game were it not for being forced to stay in Epic quarantine for a year, – for which the publisher should likely take the blame – a host of technical issues and crashes, and other small tidbits like a selective lack of polish in the animations, NPC behavior and a few inconsistencies (Really? You won't pause playing the drums even while your life's work falls apart around you? No animate reaction whatsoever to the fiery death of all things what follows shortly? And why do these aliens sometime record their live, spoken conversations on stones in dialogue? 'Tis an extinct literary form.)

Despite that, I've felt that longing feeling. It is a good feeling. It means nothing more is left to be said. But I can say this is one of the best games I've ever played.

Oh, and Outer Wilds does N-body simulation and I think that's pretty neat.

Captain's a comdom.

This, recruits, is a 20 kilo fusion-boosted nuclear explosive. Feel the weight. Every two milliseconds, the multiple main guns of a RFP Destroyer accelerate one of these to over 12 kilometers per second. It detonates with the power of 500 kilotons of TNT. That is over 30 times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on the desolate wastes of an irradiated Earth. That means J. Robert Oppenheimer is the deadliest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in space.

Now! Officer Gillhams! What is Newton's first law?
Sir! An object stays in motion unless acted on by an outside force, sir!
Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this bundle of plutonium, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might get captured in one of Earth's lagrange point and obliterate a Swiss research center in a thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this cannon, you are thoroughly ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. And you better hope that someone belongs to the USTA.