pauraque: Guybrush writing in his journal adrift on the sea in a bumper car (monkey island adrift)
This DLC for Outer Wilds adds a new area to the game—a ringworld called the Stranger, hidden in orbit around the sun. Your translator gadget is useless here, as the Stranger was built by different and even more ancient aliens, so you'll have to figure out new ways of accessing their technology and piecing together their story.



no major spoilers but some information about what you discover and why the game menu has a 'reduced frights' option )

Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye is on Steam for $14.99 USD, which I think is a fair price for an expansion that is longer and more involved than many full games I've played. I completed it in 17 hours.

I think it's a great addition to the game, but one word of caution: If you buy the pack with the base game and the DLC, you could easily find the DLC before you finish the main game and not realize that's what you were doing, which could be confusing since the DLC's storyline doesn't directly connect to what you need to do to complete the main game. So if you do buy them together and want to avoid this, just don't go to the
spoilerradio tower on Timber Hearth
until you finish the main game since that's where the DLC begins.
pauraque: Guybrush writing in his journal adrift on the sea in a bumper car (monkey island adrift)
In this open-world exploration game, you play as an alien astronaut whose people have just begun to explore their solar system. You're excited to see what's out there, but not long after you launch your first spaceflight—22 minutes later, to be exact—disaster strikes as the sun goes supernova, destroying you and everything you know...



...and then you wake up, back at the same campfire where you began the game. You quickly realize that you are caught in a time loop which resets every 22 minutes, giving you brief windows of time to look for answers. Why is this happening, and why are you the only one who remembers anything from one loop to the next? Clues are found in ancient inscriptions from another alien species that visited your system millennia ago, leaving their writings and ruins scattered across the planets.

details but no spoilers )

Outer Wilds is on Steam for $24.99 USD, which seems more than fair for a game with plenty of content and challenge. There is also a DLC, which I'm currently still working on, so I'll report back when I finish that.

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