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The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is the first of two narrative expansions that can be purchased individually or bundled at a discount in The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass. A copy of The Outer Worlds on the same…

70 9 September 2020 ESRB M

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Obsidian Entertainment, released 9 September 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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What The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2020. It was published by Private Division. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A severed arm and a mysterious message lead the crew of the Unreliable to the Gorgon Asteroid, formerly the site of one of Halcyon’s most ambitious and disastrous scientific undertakings, now a lawless den of monsters and marauders. Wealthy recluse Minnie Ambrose tasks the crew with finding answers about Dr. Olivia Ambrose, her mother and the doomed project’s disgraced director, but they are soon ensnared in an intrigue that will change the colony forever.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon launched on 9 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Genshin Impact. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact.

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When did The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon come out?
The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon was released on 9 September 2020 for Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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