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The Outer Worlds

Created by Obsidian Entertainment, the same company responsible for the beloved Fallout: New Vegas, The Outer Worlds is a Sci-Fi FPS adventure with RPG elements. Players will embark on an epic quest across multiple planets and areas, taking on quests from NPCs, gaining companions, and unraveling an interstellar mystery.

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RPG
Released
October 25, 2019
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
Developer(s)
Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Private Division
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Franchise
The Outer Worlds

The Outer Worlds is a new single-player sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.

Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later than you expected only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.

Welcome to the future - try not to break it.

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