Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure video game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the player character as they explore a planetary system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that resets after the sun goes supernova and destroys the system. Through repeated attempts they investigate alien ruins to discover their history and the cause of the time loop. The game began development in 2012 as the master's thesis of director Alex Beachum (pictured), and became a commercial project in 2015. It was released for Windows, the Xbox One, and the PlayStation 4 in 2019, for the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X/S in 2022, and for the Nintendo Switch in 2023. It was positively received, with most critics acclaiming its design and some criticizing the uneven difficulty of gameplay and pursuing the game's mysteries. An expansion, Echoes of the Eye, was released in 2021. Outer Wilds won in multiple categories at award shows, including Best Game at the 16th British Academy Games Awards.
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