The Outer Worlds: Review

Robin Wilde
4 min readSep 11, 2020

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They say history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. From The Outer Worlds’ first rhyme — “You’ve tried the best, now try the rest” — it’s couplets all the way down. The game is the work of Obsidian, with many of the surprisingly vast development team hailing from the old Fallout games, plus 2010’s New Vegas, which leaves its mark most noticeably on the gameplay, partner system and script, but there are other evident influences glued…

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Robin Wilde

Freelance writer and graphic designer. Once worked in politics.