Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
The Hearthian space program has detected an anomaly that canʼt be attributed to any known location in the solar system. Grab your flashlight and prepare to illuminate the darkest secrets of the Outer Wilds in…
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye is an adventure developed by Mobius Digital, released 28 September 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye is
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye is an adventure game developed by Mobius Digital and released in 2021. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Hearthian space program has detected an anomaly that canʼt be attributed to any known location in the solar system. Grab your flashlight and prepare to illuminate the darkest secrets of the Outer Wilds in its first and only DLC, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, mystery and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 88 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350, 6 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 660 (2GB) | AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB). An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye launched on 28 September 2021, within three weeks of Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6 and Inscryption. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6, Inscryption.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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