GAME
Outer Wilds
A 22-minute solar system
Mobius Digital · 2020-06-18 · ■■■■□ 4/5 · 9.5/10
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In three lines
Outer Wilds is a narrative-puzzle / observation puzzle game released by Mobius Digital in 2020.
Puzzlebyrinth scores it 9.5/10, with a difficulty of 4/5. A 22-minute solar system
Its core mechanics are Environmental Observation / Time Loop.
Our Review
Explore a solar system on a 22-minute loop and unravel the mysteries of an ancient race.
Mentions across our columns (35)
Puzzle Soundtracks（15）
- 2026-09-24 · DoremiSoundtrack: The Forgotten City — How one law branches into thirty melodies
- 2026-08-07 · Doremi · 2 mentionsSoundtrack: Samorost 3 — When playing the flute becomes the journey
- 2026-07-27 · DoremiSoundtrack: Timelie — Rewindable music, built for scrubbing time
- 2026-07-24 · DoremiSoundtrack: The Turing Test — one motif that keeps asking, human or machine
- 2026-07-21 · Doremi · 2 mentionsSoundtrack: Heaven's Vault — a small chord waiting for every moment of discovery
- 2026-07-14 · Doremi · 2 mentionsSoundtrack: ANIMAL WELL — sounding the dense air itself, and a flute that becomes a key
- 2026-07-05 · DoremiSoundtrack: Q.U.B.E. 2 — Sound that is almost real, and not
- 2026-06-23 · DoremiSoundtrack: Obduction — Music that changes its timbre from world to world
- 2026-06-18 · DoremiSoundtrack: Manifold Garden — Music that returns even when you fall
- 2026-06-16 · DoremiSoundtrack: Chants of Sennaar — Learning a people's sound before learning their words
- 2026-06-13 · DoremiSoundtrack: Papers, Please — It plays at the top of the day, then the stamp takes over
- 2026-06-07 · DoremiSoundtrack: The Talos Principle — A paradise built on one long sustained tone
- 2026-06-04 · DoremiSoundtrack: Machinarium — The arithmetic of loops that never go stale in a rusty world
- 2026-05-30 · Doremi · 2 mentionsSoundtrack: COCOON — Music that plays on without becoming wallpaper
- 2026-05-30 · Doremi · 9 mentionsSoundtrack: Outer Wilds — When music becomes a tool for solving
The Counter-Review（10）
- 2026-07-27 · Mayoi · 2 mentionsCounterpoint on ANIMAL WELL — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-07-23 · Mayoi · 2 mentionsCounterpoint on Chants of Sennaar — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-07-20 · Mayoi · 2 mentionsCounterpoint on Antichamber — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-06-29 · Mayoi · 2 mentionsCounterpoint on TUNIC — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-06-18 · Mayoi · 3 mentionsCounterpoint on Blue Prince — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-06-15 · MayoiCounterpoint on Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-06-11 · Mayoi · 7 mentionsCounterpoint on Outer Wilds — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-06-01 · MayoiCounterpoint on The Witness — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-05-28 · MayoiCounterpoint on Baba Is You — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
- 2026-05-26 · MayoiCounterpoint on COCOON — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Essays（3）
- 2026-08-09 · Komugi · 3 mentionsIn-Game Notebook Design — Where Should a Deduction Puzzle Keep Its Memory? (from Obra Dinn to Chants of Sennaar)
- 2026-08-02 · Komugi · 10 mentionsSolving the Time Loop — Designing Games Where Knowledge Is the Only Save Data (from Majora's Mask to Outer Wilds)
- 2026-07-01 · Komugi · 5 mentionsWalking and Deducing — The Boundary from Gone Home to Return of the Obra Dinn
