The Outer Worlds 2 News

[p]They built Arcadia. Now they have to survive it.[/p][p]Watch the devs play The Outer Worlds 2, live now in Early Access.[/p]

[p]It’s happening! The Outer Worlds 2 Early Access is officially live for Premium Edition players— which means you can start finding what flaws you have, in a good way, five days early... Why wait for the rest of the Earth Directorate to catch up when you can dive straight into Arcadia’s chaos today?[/p][p]The colony of Arcadia is beautiful, full of ambitious inhabitants, and currently undergoing a touch of war. Think of it as part of the immersive experience. The Protectorate wants order, the Order of the Ascendant wants enlightenment, and Auntie's Choice wants your continued consumer loyalty. Each faction is completely convinced they’re right—and even more convinced they should be the ones in charge.[/p][p]Early Access gives you the complete game experience right now, and everything you do carries over when the game launches widely on October 29. Premium Edition players also get a few extra goodies to sweeten the deal, including Commander Zane’s Anti-Monopolistic Battle Pack, The Moon Man’s Corporate Appreciation Prize Pack, access to digital artbook and soundtrack, and a DLC Pass for two upcoming story expansions. Standard Edition players can still upgrade anytime to jump in early and claim these bonuses.[/p][p]So grab your crew, prep your skip drive, and get ready to make some questionable decisions in the name of progress—or profit, or power, or whatever you’re telling yourself this week.[/p][p]Good luck out there where the rifts are unstable, the choices are yours, and the universe needs a hero, but you’ll have to do.[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p]

I am a baby, floating through space. A decade or so passes while I’m frozen in a pod, dead to the world. Clearly, though, all is not as it seems. Upon finally being rescued and thawed out, I’m given grave news.

I’ve been diagnosed with consumerism.

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It’s funny how returning to a familiar universe can feel both comforting and brand-new. The Outer Worlds 2 opens with a banger of an intro that reminds you what made the first game special, while getting out in the open that things have changed in significant and meaningful ways. From the opening scenes, it’s obvious that Obsidian looked hard at what worked before, what didn’t, and then rebuilt almost every piece with more confidence and heart.

The first Outer Worlds was clever, stylish, and packed with sharp satire, but it sometimes felt torn between being a shooter, an RPG, and a send-up of corporate dystopia. The sequel doesn’t have that identity crisis. It knows what it is: a more mature, emotionally grounded story set in a universe that finally feels alive.

What caught my attention in The Outer Worlds 2 right away wasn’t the shooting or the shiny visuals. It was the tone. There’s a weight to the writing this time, a sense that the team wanted to say something beyond... Read more

After being perhaps best known for developing sequels for licensed properties such as Star Wars, Neverwinter Nights and Fallout, leadership at California-based Obsidian Entertainment decided, in early 2016, that it was time for a new RPG set in their own original world. They decided that the best person to helm such a project would be Tim Cain, who joined the company in 2011 and was one of the two creators of the Fallout series. Cain then himself invited Leonard Boyarsky, with whom he created Fallout, to embark on developing what eventually became the space RPG The Outer Worlds, released in 2019. The game was generally well received, even though some criticized the short length of the campaign and lacklustre player decisions.

A sequel, The Outer Worlds 2, was announced in 2021, but it was this year that things, including the release date of 29 October 2025, finally started falling into place. During gamescom 2025, I not only got the chance to go hands-on with the game for a full... Read more