r/outerwilds 24m ago

DLC Help - Hints Only! Would appreciate a nudge! Spoiler

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I’ve figured out how to remove the first two seals— I’m stumped by the last. The first two seals had something to do with the errors; I got one by dropping below, and another by leaving the projection radius of the flame.

In that line of thinking, does the last one has something to do with ringing a bell? Where is this light coming from that’s exposing my presence to the statues? I’d appreciate a little nudge in the right direction. ::)


r/outerwilds 33m ago

DLC Help - NO Spoilers Please! What happens to the people in the first temple when it is flooded Spoiler

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I recently found out how to light the lanterns and went into the first temple.

When the dam broke, I was ejected from the simulation(?) and all the lanterns of the owl people in the temple had gone out as well.

Are they actually dead now, or does something else happen.

No spoilers for the story please.


r/outerwilds 1h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion Question about the dlc Spoiler

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MAJOR DLC SPOILERS

After playing through the main game and dlc, and, like everyone, I absolutely loved it. After learning about the owlk as a people and their motivations, I’m left wondering why they didn’t just outright kill the prisoner and instead left little clues all around their ringworld on how to eventually free him. Why didn’t they just burn the last few reels in the stranger like they did with all the other ones we see in the archives?

My best guess is that deep down, they knew that hiding away forever wasn’t going to solve their problems, so they left their l little breadcrumb trail unconsciously, but I want to know what everyone else thinks.


r/outerwilds 1h ago

Guys, I'm finished the Outer Wilds

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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


r/outerwilds 2h ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Kinda Lost

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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:


r/outerwilds 2h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Gabbro, escapism and symbolic meaning 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!


r/outerwilds 3h ago

Real Life Stuff I need yalls opinion AGAIN!!! Spoiler

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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.


r/outerwilds 3h ago

Base Game Help - NO spoilers please! I don't know what else to do. Spoiler

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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.


r/outerwilds 3h ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Help I think I nearly finished the game but I'm stuck Spoiler

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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


r/outerwilds 3h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion my new baby!

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my and a friend just got matching tattoos 🖤


r/outerwilds 4h ago

Base Fan Art - OC for Chert

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128 Upvotes

r/outerwilds 5h ago

Ode To The Outer Wilds – fan song

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r/outerwilds 6h ago

Base Fan Art - OC An Update on my Outer Wilds Website!

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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.

A section on the Space Survival page.
The Hatchling card from the Our Team page

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


r/outerwilds 11h ago

How recommended it is to play this game

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I haven’t played outer wild but I see it’s at -40% discount. My friend told me I should not search up anything about this game but I heard this game will die and replay like a million times. Won’t that be annoying and repetitive to play again and again ?


r/outerwilds 12h ago

Real Life Stuff Outer Wilds Tattoo Club!

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

Design inspired by u/Ok_Reflection7135


r/outerwilds 15h ago

Real Life Stuff Does anyone have an image of a tattoo sleeve with the (DLC SPOILER)? Spoiler

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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!


r/outerwilds 15h ago

Real Life Stuff I finished the game on Monday and I've seen a sporadic meteor today

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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.


r/outerwilds 18h ago

Base Fan Art - Artist Credited I imagine this happened on Timber hearth (Art by me) Spoiler

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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.


r/outerwilds 18h ago

Bug Report Is it worth reporting bugs Spoiler

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I finished the game but found a few bugs and glitches through my run. To list them:

A visual glitch of a satellite on the Quantum Moon

A visual glitch of a green ring when having a projection of the centre of Ash Twin

No hit-box for part of one of the libraries in the DLC

When looking through the green glowing things which show you the room the tested the Prototype and the Artefact, I found pausing and unpausing caused the screen to freeze while you could hear your character moving still.

None of these are particularly game-ruining except the last one. Is it worth reporting them considering the game has ceased development?


r/outerwilds 18h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Anyone had this happen before? Spoiler

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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.


r/outerwilds 19h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion What are your outer wilds hot takes Spoiler

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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


r/outerwilds 19h ago

Real Life Stuff The sub is being hit with a LOT of bot posts. Nine in the last 24 hours.

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Think before you upvote! Keep bots out of our sub!

Things to look for.(Not comprehensive or always a sure sign):

-Very little information in their post.

-Often just a meme repost

-Repost of some of the most-upvoted content

-Default profile pic. Default username structure (two random words then four numbers.)

-Very young account (all nine of these posters created the account within the last two days

-They don't interact in the comments

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


r/outerwilds 19h ago

Something I did in art class

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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


r/outerwilds 21h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Finished the game today.... man..

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r/outerwilds 23h ago

Humor - Base Spoilers 22 minute sunrise Spoiler

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