Outer worlds worth it? 17 dollars is an expensive sale buy for me. I dont even know what this game is.
Do you mean Outer WILDS? I don't think Outer Worlds is on Steam...yet?
Anyways, I loved both, but Outer Wilds is one of the best games of the last 10 years.
The game takes place in a single solar system with several planetoids / objects you can travel to. You have a little scrappy space ship and it controls with real physics and is hard to control at first but feels great once you get it. You basically are trying to unravel the mystery of your solar system and this ancient race of beings who have disappeared.
Every 20-ish minutes there is a cataclysm, you die, and you start over on the first planet. The game takes place in these 20 minute cycles where each cycle you progress on goals - you travel around, find lots of cool weird stuff, solve puzzles, find new locations, and your ship computer tracks everything so you basically use your computer through runs of the game to find something you want to investigate, take off, and go do that thing. I hate time limits in games but it REALLY works here. It doesn't sound like much time, but it really is, as the solar system is pretty compact. You will slowly peel back layers of the story as you find new places, solve new puzzles, and start figuring out what the hell is going on.
There are no levels, no loot, no skills, nothing like that.
You have a few tools you start with that you use for the gameplay, and this is all about exploration and discovery and it absolutely NAILS it.
I can't recommend this more, if any of this sounds interesting to you.
This is like an anti-No Man's Sky. They have built a compact solar system for you to discover but it is absolutely packed with all hand-made content and is challenging, riveting, "just one more run", insanely great.
If you get it I hope you love it. I didn't even know what it was the day I downloaded it on Xbox Gamepass, and I was shocked. It gave me the feeling games like Mario 64 and Breath of the Wild did. That magical, wanderlust, wonderful mix of things that is very rare in gaming.