I just got this comment. wow.

best comment of the year

Kudos. Didn't think of that.

It is, sort of: The song ends on 2.20 exactly.

yes it would be perfect

that's the best way to put it

Just like firewatch, dragon age

Keep calme

"Video games just don't have soul like they used too"

This game IS soul.

same

Right up there with Mass Effect 1 and Civ 4.

Half my played hours are me sitting in the menu

@@ElasGrzmot I always listen to it one full time every time i play the game

It's this and the Kingdom Hearts opening title screen music. Both are absolutely beautiful. They kindle a special kind of fire inside of our hearts like when we were just children in a big big universe looking up at the stars in the sky with the gentle summer night breeze and all the little lights shining around the harbor with the waves crashing and the feeling of wonder and excitement to just get out there and experience this universe.

Real talk, cultivate that. That could grow into a massive driving force of motivation to focus on astrophysics, or even a medicinal longevity focus like gene therapy. Amazing that something as small as exposing your child to a thought provoking game could create that reaction.

@@tonytramel3118 building upon that, you can maybe bring up the concept of finding his own Eye of the Universe, both to ease his worrying about the end of the universe, and to cultivate interest

thats so cute! You should tell him that if everyone died it would be ok and death is normal and nothing to fear

That’s sweet

Thats enough to crack the ice on a cold heart my man 2💙❤

yup it makes you see that ell ITS COUNTRY IN SPACE!

If the soundtrack is good, it's a good sign. Rarely will you get a crap game with a good soundtrack...Sonic maybe, but I love it anyway :)

Amen brother. You just know at that exact moment.

Got in steam today. Fixated at the menu music for 5-10 mins straight.

@@007avatarofvishnu Been telling people to get it all day, now that it's on steam. Have fun. And try to keep as far away from spoilers as possible. The less you know, the better ;)

Hits hard man

This game should be called Melancholy

Every goddamn time, so true

I remember the first time I loaded up this game. The main menu music + graphics completely caught me off guard. It just gave me this super weird feeling I never felt before when playing a video game. I listened to the whole theme before I even started playing.

Easy now ;) I absolutely love it, but it's in some great company

Dark_Eternal finished outer wilds yesterday, i love it! What other indie games do you recommend?

@@Randompancakes12345 ori and the blind forest,hollow knight,hyper light drifter,undertale,crypt of necro dancer,dead cell,risk of rain 2,journey,celeste,gris,mo astray thats my personel fav

@@Randompancakes12345 If you enjoy Metroidvanias, Hollow Knight is a masterpiece. Celeste is good if you like super difficult 2D platformers. UNDERTALE isn't as difficult as the two I just mention, so whether that's a pro or a con for you, I don't know; but it's something I think could be recommended to almost anyone.

SeamusTheHunter Undertale is another game that has so much soul and wholesomeness.

This one is insane too (it's not an ad or whatever, just a genuine music I share because I love it) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZOnqJWHyL-yc3U.html

Wow, amazing. I... have a different feeling when listening to it. I feel like nothing makes sense, nothing really matters when the universe is so big, what am I doing with my life, I need to improve and do something before my time runs out.

kiwawa

That's a beautiful memory you've made with your younger brother. Hell, I'm slightly jealous that you can share something so precious with a loved one! Maybe one day you two will be all grown up and catching up, talking over a bonfire as this song begins to play and both of you get hit by warm, blissful nostalgia of a well spent youth.

played it 2 years ago and I still listen to this every now and then - emotional impact is great even after 2 years

I wish I could play this with my brothers but they all hate this game

yeah despite happy tune and cartonish style this game scared me as no horror film did in long time

Yeah for all I loved the ending it's a fukkin gut punch. :P

You think this is scary play subnautica

@@vincentaguirre1635 im pretty sure subnautica has enemies, or at least territorial creatures this game has NONE, and still manages to be horryfiying

@@AlejandroTecman true. Knowing that I'm gonna die every 22 minutes anyways and always rewind kinda takes that edge away though. And yes there's some freaky creatures in subnautica if you don't have a fear of the ocean you will I highly recommend.

I feel like this game should make you wanna play the banjo not the guitar

@@TokyoKazama it can be played at the guitar as well

I also bought a guitar so I could play outer wilds songs

Same here

I play that right now

One of my favorite things from this game was... (spoiler alert for the "true ending") ...how Solanum was found by us and brought together to the campfire with the Hearthian explorers by the end, and invited to partake in the song the explorers play. Even though she mentioned before that she wished she knew our language, so she could understand us like we understood her with our translator, right before her time on the universe ends, she and the Hearthians are able to communicate perfectly with each other through the universal language: music. In the very end, she wasn't alone. She was one of us.

All of the money and work that goes into shovelware crap like marvel movies... This is art, no amount of money can buy this. Art has the power to make people feel and understand corners of the human experience that otherwise would be inaccessible to them in their lifetime. It brings us all a bit closer and breaks down barriers.

If I could pick one weird superpower to have, this would be the one. There are so many games that are masterpieces like this where, once you experience them once, you can never truly experience them a second time.

Enkufka what’s the other

@@shrys3915 Assasins Creed Black Flag

@@shrys3915 Life Is Strange

This and Bastion for me

To The Moon for me is one.

"the musical equivalent of a cuddle"... I liked this comparison :)

Hopeful is such a good way to put it. It describes the Nomai pretty well.

I loved that you could roast marshmallows at spawn, even though I hate marshmallows 😆 It’s the nostalgia for me.

Takes me back to when festivals and going on camping trips with friends was still a thing. Nowadays every days the same sitting at home in lockdown studying for university.

Hey, sorry about your dad's passing. I hope you'll be able to carry his memory with you for many more years. Btw, I hope I don't come off as too intrusive, but since you said you never turned the game on again, I'm assuming you never finished it? I know I'm just a stranger on the internet meddling on what is none of his business and possibly a painful subject to bring up with you (and I'm genuinely sorry if that's the case), but I can't help but feel like I should ask you to try and finish the game. Especially because of this unfortunate happening. I lost my grandma in 2013 (although I felt like I lost her since she's had a stroke in 2009 and was never able to walk or talk ever again), a cousin who was my very best childhood friend in 2017 and my dear dog in 2019. Every time I remember them all it makes me smile, but it also used to hurt a lot thinking they were gone forever from my life. In a stormy night in 2021, me and my younger brother played Outer Wilds together, and once we reached the end of the game, it made me cry like I never cried in my life. To me this was like one of those miraculous things we sometimes see in movies that pull out from our chests a pain we didn't even realized we were carrying for many years. If you ever reach the end, I'm sure you'll understand why and how that happened. I played a lot of "emotional" games in my life (To The Moon, That Dragon Cancer, Firewatch, Undertale, OMORI, TLoU), but while those games had beautiful stories, none had ever actually changed something in my like Outer Wilds did. I'm not exaggerating when I say that after the end of that game, I was no longer afraid to die. And at the same time, I wanted to live like I never wanted to before in my life. It still stings a little when I think my loved ones are gone forever, but not nearly as much as it once did. I hope once you reach the end of the game (if you ever do), it'll also speak to you on the same level it spoke to me. I hope I didn't sounded like I'm trivializing what happened by referencing some silly game, or sounded like a charlatan wanting to sell a product. I just felt like sharing how this game healed some wounds I only realized I had the moment right after they were healed. I know it can be difficult to touch something that has such a painful memory associated with. Please ignore this if you think booting up the game again won't be possible or worth it. And regardless of any of that, I hope your heart is healing now. Have a great week, friend.

If you haven't yet, and if now is a good time, from one random internet stranger to another: it’s a fine day for a launch.

Tears and goosebumps, man. It's the experience, the ride you took, that provokes it.

Not necessarily true. I finished the Outer Wilds recently, and I still go on for some miscellaneous fun. For example, yesterday, I wanted to see if you could tell the person at the seed on Timber Hearth that you talked to Feldspar. I went to the Dark Bramble, talked to him, and attempted to get out. When I couldn't, I looked it up, and found out someone made a map of the Dark Bramble on Reddit. This brought joy to my heart. So even if you beat the game, there's so much you can do. You could also just relax. :)

Honestly, Just pray for early onset dementia...

Status report: Ride was good?

the theme music get way more emotive and full of meaning after you finish the game

I’m guessing you have depression now?

How was the ride?

Coincidental timing hahah

Confirmed, I noticed that about the title too. The broken pieces of the word Wilds seem to move at a tiny speed.

That, and all the stars die. Should be entirely gone by the 22-minute mark (when the time loop resets).

the absolute best way to spend eternity

Chasing cars has nothing on this song.

It sounds a bit like Chasing Cars. Which is just such a childhood song

The music on Timber Hearth makes me reminisce about my childhood, playing outside in the sunshine and nature, beautiful

Yeah its truly a one of a kind game. I’ve tried to convince some of my friends to play, but they wouldn’t budge. It’s not meant for everyone I guess :(

ONEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Yes the music is very peaceful But I dont really think there's a need to cry about it 😁

I feel you, im there too. I want my body shot into space. I wanna become one with the universe again

Could possibly be the version he's on. v1.0.1 We're currently on v1.0.7

@@christorres8809 well now this is odd... I can't seem to find a video of this happening on the title screen anywhere, but I know I've seen it happen...

@@Nathan55411 Not just the stars blinking out, event he logo disintegrates over time and breaks apart, floating off. :)

Anticipatory nostalgia, it sometimes hits harder than normal nostalgia

@@bBalazs-eb4wf And the stars going out in the back.

It started as a graduate thesis paper and I think it's like 15 years total if I remember correctly. One of the greatest works of art IMO.

whats the 2nd??

@@rocky6345 Spoilers for titanfall 2: At the end when BT7274 sacrifices himself, and actually 1 more time after that, this game named wandersong (i highly recommend checking it out) the ending of that made me cry as well.

Same here, this and kentucky route zero

Still haven't forgotten this game and how many good memories it gifted to me. Still by far my favorite game I've EVER played. This song still brings me to the brink of tears every time I heard it.

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