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Outer Wilds is Steam Deck Verified

Outer Wilds is now Verified for Steam Deck!


Thanks to Patch 14, you should now be able to play Outer Wilds on your Steam Deck with default settings. We hope this update makes Outer Wilds more enjoyable for our Steam Deck players! As always, you can reach us via email to report any issues.

Patch 13 available on Steam


If you want to go back in time a bit, we’ve made Patch 13 available via Steam’s Betas. With this addition, Steam players can access versions of Outer Wilds as early as Patch 10. Our standard disclaimer applies: these builds have known issues that were fixed in later versions. Recent save files might also be corrupted if you use them with previous versions. Before reporting any issues, please switch to the latest version and double check whether you still have problems.

For common troubleshooting or other issues, please visit our Support Page.

Thanks for playing and happy exploring!

Outer Wilds Patch 14 is Now Available

[h2]PATCH 14 IS NOW AVAILABLE[/h2]
[h3]9/22/2023[/h3]

Outer Wilds and Echoes of the Eye Patch 14 is now available! This is a small patch to address some issues on the Steam Deck, and we fixed some bugs while we were at it. It includes accessibility improvements on all platforms: a new Large UI Mode, improvements to the legibility of some button icons, and an FOV slider on consoles!

[h3]Introducing: Large UI mode![/h3]
We hope this mode will help folks playing on smaller screens or who just wish the text and UI was a bit bigger. By default, the game will automatically detect what size the UI should be based on your platform and display. If you’d like to manually set the size, simply go to Options > Audio & Language > UI Size. You can then choose between Auto, Regular, or Large.

Patch 1.1.14 Changes:

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
  • New Gamma calibration screen. Currently, there is an issue with the new Gamma Calibration screen where mouse input doesn’t work. This can be worked around by pressing "E" or "Enter" on your keyboard to confirm your selection.
  • Damage received only in your mind no longer counts toward the "Die Hard" achievement
  • The player's dead body can no longer trigger ship log entries
  • Translator tool bug fixed where it would sometimes break when "auto-equip translator" is turned off
  • Pursuers no longer pass through certain barriers
  • Minor adjustments to the Starlit Village
  • You can no longer parkour yourself out of [REDACTED]

[h3]Art & Visuals[/h3]
  • Plants no longer appear to "glow" when gamma is set to High
  • Lights no longer glow through the Ship dashboard
  • Players probe no longer gets mis-scaled when fired at certain spots
  • A certain cosmic event is now correctly visible through a specific screen
  • Fix for certain weather phenomena not correctly forming on Giant's Deep under specific circumstances
  • Materials on certain masks now match
  • Various fixes for assets floating or intersecting in odd ways
  • Various fixes for incorrect, misaligned or missing textures and materials
  • Various fixes for issues where the player could get stuck
  • Various fixes for missing or odd collisions
  • Various minor visual fixes

[h3]Tech[/h3]
  • Fixed invisible gravity crystals
  • Fix for certain areas thinking the player is outside of its LOD zone when the player enters the area under specific circumstances
  • Fixed leaving a specific type of item on a certain craft causing the item to disappear under certain circumstances
  • Fix for the screen going black during some vertical transitions in the DLC
  • Fixed a few issues with the ship's align-with-target behavior in landing mode

[h3]UI[/h3]
  • New Large UI mode! To manually set UI size, go to Options > Audio & Language > UI Size
  • Improved legibility of button icons for control sticks, shoulder buttons, and triggers
  • Reorganized the Graphics Menu Options
  • HUD markers now display the correct distance to objects inside Dark Bramble
  • Various UI bug fixes

[h3]Text & Localization[/h3]
  • Fixed missing characters in various languages most notably Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
  • Improved line breaks and spacing in various languages
  • Fixed various typos

[h3]PC Only Changes[/h3]
  • Workaround for NVidia driver bug is now disabled by default. If you have an NVidia card, please make sure that you have updated to driver version 528.02 or later. (Workaround can still be enabled by editing the secret settings file.)
  • Updated default graphics settings when playing on Steam Deck
  • Minor code fixes and improvements for the modding community. Happy hunting!

[h3]Other[/h3]
  • A can of marshmallows somewhere seems to have expired...

[h3]That’s the End of This Update[/h3]
We want to say thank you all again! As we said last time, there are no more major updates planned for Outer Wilds or Echoes of the Eye because we are moving on to new projects. There might be smaller updates, like this one, as we have time, but we cannot guarantee more updates. Regardless, you can reach us via email to report any issues.

Thanks for your support and keep exploring!
[h3]Mobius[/h3]

Steam's best space game is on sale ahead of Starfield

One of the greatest space games ever made is having a very brief Steam sale right now, and it is absolutely an essential pick-up if you're waiting eagerly for the Starfield release date. Outer Wilds is a very difficult game to talk about without spoiling even just the core concept, so if you want to go in completely blind and have somehow missed the core conceit, we recommend it while the Outer Wilds sale is still on.


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The enigmatic system of Outer Wilds is packed with scary things you wouldn’t want running around in real life: spine-tingling cosmic anglerfish, endless time loops, and a bunch of existential dread. (Oh, wait a minute.) Although, the spacefaring adventure has at least one tool that would be handy in everyday situations: the translator. One Redditor has thankfully recreated a functional version of the translator and this clip shows the delightfully faithful tool.


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Forget Starfield - the most important space game leaves Game Pass soon

I'm as excited as the next person for the Starfield release date, but there's a more urgent deadline on the horizon for those of you subscribed to Microsoft's PC Game Pass service. Outer Wilds, one of the best space games of all time (and certainly one of the most important, in my humble opinion), is leaving the subscription service on January 1. If you haven't played it yet, don't worry - that's still more than enough time to experience the wonder for yourself.


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