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3.5/5
It's Not the Best Choice, It's The Outer Worlds
Chris Kavan - wrote on 01/25/2026
Obsidian Entertainment will forever and always be tied to Fallout: New Vegas - still the most ambitious and memorable of the series. But people looking at that through rose-colored glasses may forget the game was an even buggier mess than Fallout 3 when it was released. Obsidian has made other great games - I'm particularly a fan of South Park: The Stick of Truth (a fun and damn funny licensed game), along with solid early sequels in Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2. They also made Pillars of Eternity (and its sequel), Tyranny and Avowed - but as I haven't played those I have no opinion. What I have played here, is The Outer Worlds - a space exploration/FPS games about a long-distant Earth colony dominated by corporations and, of course, utterly falling apart. It …
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3.5/5
Private Space Travel for ___ and Profit
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/26/2022
“The Outer Worlds” (“TOW”) is the final game developed by Obsidian Entertainment – the Indie studio crafted from the scattered remains of Black Isle after the collapse of InterPlay around the turn of the millennium – before the studio’s acquisition by Microsoft. Indeed, “TOW” was released during the acquisition process, and only remained an independent release, published by Take-Two, due to the fact that all prior development and contracts were handled without Microsoft’s involvement. Releasing in 2019 after several years of development, “TOW” is something of a vanity project for a number of long-time Obsidian team members who got their start in gaming working on Brian Fargo’s ‘Fallout’ series of ‘Post-Nuclear’ RPGs. With the ‘Fallout’ IP officially …
