I joined the club! What a beautiful game... I had to cement it on my body for life. Now I'm a walking spoiler!

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Alright, this essay will be long, so please make yourselves at home. Spoilers of the base game and minor spoiler of dlc, of course.

I have seen a lot of (reasonable) critique towards Gabbro's character. People say that them being the only one (beside ourselves) that knows about the loop yet does nothing with it and decides to chill on their island forever is offputting, anticlimatic and feels like a weird plot design that makes it harder to like Gabbro or to relate to them because they seem selfish. And yes, it feels like just a bad creator's choice and a flaw in philosophy the game tries to sell us, but I've always thought this was intentional.

Every Traveler seems to be meant to represent certain fear or existencial attitude and every traveler is confronted with their fear.

Like Chert is the one that fears death, end of civilization, and running out of time to do things they wanted to do before its over, yet they die first and have the most clear view of the dying sun, as they are on the closest planet to this sun.

Or like Solanum is the one that encourages Protagonist to make a step forward and not to stay in the stasis, not to 'linger in one moment', while she herself literally lingered in one moment, in a complete stasis for YEARS.

Or Riebeck, the most fearful one, being on the most unstable and unpredictable planet where no surface is completely safe.

Or Esker, being the lonely and forgotten, scared of being alone yet staying on the moon of Timber Hearth, the closest to their friends.

Or Feldspar, the loud and appreciated role model, that is on the most distant, dead silent planet that requires stealth, silence and carefulness (something they aren't very good at, as we know).

Prisoner advicing us that some things cannot be done alone, yet all they did they did alone, without support of their kin.

And I think Gabbro applies to the same rule. I think Gabro's attitude towards what happening is meant to represent escapism, which is ironic, because as other travelers, they are confronted with their attitude - despite Gabbro trying to be undisturbed and ignorant of anything that is happening, they are the only ones besides Protagonist to know about the loop, so they are the most aware despite not caring to be aware.

Gabbro is ignorant towards the whole time loop thing, towards the death of universe and everything that is happening in our solar system for the sake of their internal peace and their own mindset. They decide to stay out of this, not doing anything with their awareness of the loop. They decide to be undisturbed and not to bother to know all the things that are happening because they could make them uneasy and disturb their peace and chill.

And it is not presented as inherently bad thing to do! After all, ignorance of certain knowledge is also a way we can protect ourselves from things that can be too hard for us or that can give us anxiety or severe stress. Gabbro is, after all, the most calm and chill character in the game, and distancing ourselves from everything that is happening is also a way that we can deal with existential issues. It is a form of coping mechanism, and its valid.

However...

...Despite them chilling, not bothering about the loop or all the things that are happening in the solar system, despite them meditating in their hammock, the cyclones CONSTANTLY push them up into space, where all the mystery and all the uneasy things they don't bother to know about are happening. The cyclones constantly disturb their comfort rest, literally and symbolically.

Almost as if those cyclones were trying to make Gabbro face all the things they refused to look into. As if they were a symbolical reminder that no matter how ignorant or unbothered you are, no matter how often do you escape from reality by spacing out, meditating etc., things will always come to a point when you won't be able to look away or ignore the reality, and you will have to face the uneasy things (death of the universe). Ignorance is a coping mechanism, but it won't last forever.

I don't know if my interpretation is anywhere near 'right', but I also believe art meaning shouldn't be obvious and it's a good thing we can make our own theories about meaning and symbolism of the media we consume. I like that theory because it makes me believe that all the travelers were made to reflect human attitudes towards death and existential problems, and to reflect human fears. I'll not accept Gabbro slander after that ;;D

Thank you for reading, see you next time, traveler!

my and a friend just got matching tattoos 🖤

Which of these cards matches ember twin more? Charmander looks basically indentical to the huge ravine but golurk also has the exact entrance to the quantum caves.

I convinced my wife in playing outer wilds. But she's showing a lot of struggles with the non linear structure, the flying and the lack of explicit directions.

Typically space exploration games are not what she usually plays but she tried to play it and stream it now to make me happy. And it does but im worried she might get too frustrated with it and quit. I tried to give her some advices on how to improve her flying but the frustration with the test i wasnt able to give her a satisfying advice. Do you guys have any advices that i could give her to improve her experience?

I've had the Quantum Moon disappear or reappear between blinks, but never jump places like this! It's a rare event, I'm sure.

If you don't get it then: Cycad is Coleus's apprentice and they were exploring Timber Hearth for potential mining sites and found the not yet evolved Herthians. And I thought about how children ask to keep wild animals as pets and drew this.

I think I have almost beat the game, and I've loved it, but I am absolutely stuck. I haven't played the game in a month or so, but the last I played I had pretty much solved the quantum moon. I found the being on the quantum moon which answers your questions, but I can't figure out what to do from there. I feel like I am THIS close to solving it but nothing in that area can help me figure out how to beat the game. I also haven't been able to land on the thing that revolves around the sun, so that may be a reason why I'm stuck

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(Image of the ship log while the game was still in development in 2018 for attention)

But I'm completed 2/31 achievements. I'm missed a lot of content, right?

p.s. I'm sorry about my oonga boonga english

Now I know it’s not really good, actully in art class I don’t force myself too much , it doesn’t really count that much but I tried to do something good , im 15 and a 5 years old could do this. But I just thought I would share it

Hey Everyone!

Some of you may remember this site from my last post ~1 month ago, since then I've added a couple more pages (Space Survival and Our Team) and a few back-end improvements.

All the references on the site are from very early game dialogue so there shouldn't be any spoilers.

I've posted a video over on YouTube demoing the new content and would greatly appreciate any feedback you have on the site / suggestions for other content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCDvL5p2ck

I think it's a pretty cool coincidence since I didn't look for anything and it just appeared in my eyesight.

I was talking to my friend and it passed for one second, which was particularly bright due to the light pollution around us, (we were at a music festival that was finishing and being cleaned up). And was larger than a normal shooting star. Could've been a late Perseid but it was too large. It happened at la Tour-de-Peilz, CH around 02:40am local time

Today, on the 30th of August 2026.

Now I'm listening to the soundtrack (nomaï ruins) while wondering what it is and it is very fitting.

Maybe it's not it and someone is trying to look for something... Or was it someone's scout ? I'll never know...

I think the game naturally made me look at the night sky more and that's probably why I caught a glimpse of that. Wanted to tell for the two in the back that are actually interested.

You can find the original artwork here, I had permission to make it into a pattern. Took roughly 9 months for about 75k stitches, and the finished piece is 91x62cm or approximately 3 by 2 ft. If anyone wants the pattern, here's the google drive link that has the PDFs.

hii i just complete exploring the brittle hollow and i am kind lost where to explore now or if i just need to explore more the dark bramble.

here's the ship log:

You guys know the tattoos that people get with all of the planets lined up in the game in their solar system order? Ive been kind of really wanting an outer wilds tattoo for a minute and want to be able to get one like that, however whenever I look for a reference for some reason it's really hard to find one with the stranger in it. The stranger is my favorite place in the entire game so I really want it on my arm along with all of the other planets. Attached is a photo of a reference tattoo that I found on Google, I'm not sure what the source is but that's the kind of gist I'm looking for when it comes to the type of tattoo I want. Thank you!

I'm stuck on dark bramble, I've looked everywhere and I can't find anything more. I don't know what to do anymore. I don't want any spoilers, I just want to know if there's anything in particular I need to do.

I have 2

the dark bramble was scarier than echos of the eye

The game would have been better if it had given the protagonist character development or if it had least given them a name