Outer Wilds is a fantastic game where you discover the mysteries of your galaxy, while a supernova occurs every 22 minutes. (And time travel is involved or else it would be a very short game indeed). Nothing else can truly compare, making this one of my favorite games of all time. There’s just one teensy,…
Tag: outer space
The Horror That Surrounds: The Eye of the Universe
When I decided to write about Outer Wilds, it was hard to narrow down the exact location I wanted to cover. Let’s see, we’ve got a planet being torn apart from the inside by a black hole, an ocean planet covered in tornadoes, and a bizarre place where the fabric of space itself doesn’t work…
Scariest Environments: Open Water and Outer Space
The Duck’s most dreaded environments are not of the traditional variety. Sure, I love getting creeped out by a particularly decrepit abandoned asylum or jumping at the mysterious noises one might encounter in the deep, dark woods. But there is something very important that these locations have in common that prevents them from being especially…
Starfield, the Adventure Begins
After racking up about 20 hours in Starfield during its release weekend, it’s as good a time as any to throw my hat into the first impressions ring, the TL;DR of which is Starfield has so far been an enjoyable but imperfect experience. It’s different but also familiar, as if Bethesda simply placed a new…
There’s More to Explore in Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
When I played Outer Wilds earlier this year, it quickly became one of my favorite games of all time, where you must solve the mysteries of your solar system in a 22-minute time limit that always ends in a supernova. Progression was tied solely to knowledge gained throughout your adventure, so if you knew what…
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