The Outer Worlds Reviews

The Outer Worlds is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
PC Gamer
Top Critic
79 / 100
Oct 22, 2019

There's a category of games I think of as Saturday morning cartoon games. They lack depth, but they are fluffy and easy to enjoy. As I look back on some screenshots as Pippin laser blasts a poor marauder into a pile of dust, I realise that's what The Outer Worlds is to me. If you meet it on those terms, I think you'll enjoy it.

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Dan Stapleton
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Oct 22, 2019

With The Outer Worlds, Obsidian has found its own path in the space between Bethesda and BioWare's RPGs, and it's a great one.

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Oct 22, 2019

Obsidian Entertainment seeks to build on its RPG pedigree with The Outer Worlds, a sci-fi space adventure that is brimming with options.

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No Recommendation / Blank
Oct 22, 2019

A conventional, easygoing scifi RPG with slightly wasted satirical elements that fades very quickly from the mind.

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GamesRadar+
Top Critic
Oct 22, 2019

The Outer Worlds marks Obsidian operating at the top of its game, and a strong foundation for a new franchise that seems destined for greatness.

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9.3 / 10.0
Oct 22, 2019

Finding your way through (or around) various problems is fun, and a streak of silly humor keeps the tone light enough to counterbalance the darker themes

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Edmond Tran
Top Critic
9 / 10
Oct 22, 2019

Classic RPG sensibilities enhance wonderful characters, punchy combat, and consistently excellent writing in this sharp space Western.

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Unscored
Oct 22, 2019

Obsidian has pulled off the delicate task of creating an RPG that feels big while still keeping control of the overall scope of the game itself.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Oct 22, 2019

The Outer Worlds is so impactful that it made me question and ultimately settle more thoughtfully into my beliefs.

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VG247
Top Critic
Oct 23, 2019

For those that were disappointed with Fallout 76 going online multiplayer, this is the single-player RPG you’ve been looking for. If you’re hankering for somewhere you can while away the hours talking shit, chuckling and prodding at the locals, you won’t be disappointed.

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Unscored
Oct 22, 2019

It's not perfect. It's not for everyone. But it's probably for you.

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4 / 5.0
Oct 22, 2019

Even with these unfortunate and evident shortcomings on the technical side, The Outer Worlds is a rewarding and ultimately intriguing adventure to partake in.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 29, 2019
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Unscored
Oct 22, 2019

The Outer Worlds is alright, innit. It’s good fun. Sit back and let the orange and neon wash over you. Boo the cartoonishly evil corporations. Exhale through your nose at their Diet Toothpaste. I bet I’ll play it again, in fact. But you can tell it could have been great, if it had taken a few more risks.

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8 / 10
Jun 4, 2020

The Outer Worlds is a hugely entertaining "Fallout-in-space"-style RPG adventure filled with wonderfully vibrant locations, excellent companions, zippy and hilariously brutal combat and a ton of well-written characters to meet as you attempt to save the colony of Halcyon. Virtuos has made the expected tweaks to graphics in order to keep things as smooth as possible with this Switch port and, although things can look and feel a little rough in docked mode, in handheld this is a supremely enjoyable experience that's entertained us just as much this time around as when we played it at launch, and comes highly recommended to fans of the genre.

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91 / 100
Oct 22, 2019

The Outer Worlds is Obsidian's final game as an independent company (it's now part of Xbox Game Studios), and it's one helluva swansong.

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7.5 / 10.0
Jun 4, 2020

The Outer Worlds on Switch is a good port of a great game. Some of the graphical fidelity is lost, but a strong art direction and excellent writing make this version worth picking up

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 22, 2019

A spiritual successor to Fallout: New Vegas in every way, The Outer Worlds is better written and more polished than we've since come to expect from the franchise it emulates.

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9 / 10
Oct 25, 2019

The Outer Worlds is a kooky space opera with beautiful aesthetics, a deeply engaging cast of characters, and a tightly focused storyline. Kick the hornets' nest, smoke the insects out, or sneak past: your choice might just topple a mega-corporation or two.

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8.5 / 10.0
Nov 6, 2019

Despite some technical issues on console, The Outer Worlds offering a distinctive world full of details that will make you spend a great number of hours enjoying its well-written story that's based on your choices which give you a good chance to completely change the course of events.

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