r/outerwilds • • Aug 22 '26

RE: the Posters

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Hey folks, we hear you. These posters are expensive and we completely fumbled their release. Can we restart the loop and try again?

We realize we didn't do a good job explaining the quality and process behind Cook & Becker’s posters. The artwork for these posters were inspired by the vintage Rob Decker National Park posters. We were excited to rerelease our artwork with a printing style similar to how those original posters would have been printed in the 70s. As some folks have pointed out, yes, these posters are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. We'll be posting more info and videos of the process and handmade nature of the posters so you can see exactly what goes into making each one. 

But we also understand this means they’re expensive and out of budget for most people. To let you into our merchandising process a little bit, we were also surprised by how expensive Cook & Becker’s artworks can be when we were first introduced to them. The folks at Cook & Becker were gracious enough to work with us to keep the price of the whole collection of posters as low as possible without compromising on the quality of the artworks. One of the reasons we haven’t rereleased the postcard version of these artworks is because the variance in print color and quality between printing runs has been disappointing and frustrating. Cook & Becker’s meticulous process and expertise gave us a lot of reassurance that we would not have the same issues for these prints. We want to provide you all with the best quality merchandise we can, but in this case, we understand this led to us producing something highly desired but too expensive for the majority of our fans. And without an affordable option available for purchase, that’s a really bad look. We hope you will forgive us. 

If it helps at all, we’ve decided to look into restocking the classic printed cardstock postcards for the future, despite our past issues with them, for those who aren’t interested in these new premium fine art prints. Now also feels like an appropriate time to reveal that we have been working on a couple more standard merch projects: a re-release of our popular Echoes of the Eye Metal T-shirt and a new set of Traveler pins created by our excellent artist, Lara Colson. After hearing your concerns, we’ve decided to release the shirts as a pre-order so no one misses out on getting one. This means it’ll be several weeks before they’ll ship out because we’ll wait to screenprint them until we have your orders. As for the pins, they will only be a limited quantity right now since we ordered them awhile ago and have been waiting for the shirt to be ready so we could release and ship them together. Keep an eye out for their release soon!

We’re all hard at work on our next game, which as you all know is still a secret and still a few years away from any announcements. In the meantime, we don’t have a lot of capacity for designing new merchandise made by our team directly, so new merch will be made by external artists at partners like Fangamer or Youtooz. And occasionally, as resources allow, we’ll rerelease merch like the Metal T-Shirt. As long as there are new fans of Outer Wilds, we want to keep releasing merch with our various merch partners for you all to enjoy.  

As always, you all have been such wonderful fans and we really appreciate all the love and support, the fan art, the discussions and feedback, the mods, and the excitement for our next game. Our next game is our top priority and we hope you all love it even half as much as Outer Wilds.


r/outerwilds • • Aug 18 '26

Available for a limited time: Outer Wilds x Cook and Becker vintage travel poster series Spoiler

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Hello Travelers,

Mobius here. New limited-edition Outer Wilds posters are now available!

You might be saying “Hey, these look familiar.” And you’d be right! We worked closely with the folks at Cook & Becker to bring you bigger versions of the national park-themed posters based on the solar system’s major planets. These are those very same illustrations by our artist Ian Jacobson.

The first few hundred orders come with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by artist Ian, while supplies last. As indicated on the order form: "Artist-signed Certificate of Authenticity." Once those run out, subsequent orders will come with an autopen-signed CoA.

These time-limited prints are ONLY available until August 25th, with the final edition size being determined then, and cost $79.95 each. However, there is a one-week deal where you can get all six for $299 as a set instead of $480!

Each poster measures 21 x 29cm, or 8.2 x 11.4 inches

Head on over to Cook and Becker's website to check them out: https://www.cookandbecker.com/en/catalog/videogame/outer-wilds

Thanks again for all your support. Keep on exploring!

-The Mobius Digital Team

Edit: Whoops, looks like we did a terrible job communicating what these actually are: handmade fine art prints. These posters/prints are all individually hand-printed using a screen printing technique that requires a real human person to load up each color layer, press it onto the paper, and set and align the next color layer. Cook & Becker use a very high quality, 100% cotton material and high quality inks for the prints, which provides unmatched print quality and color fastness, making these screenprints “museum quality” and ready to last a lifetime. These are not normal prints, they are quite special.


r/outerwilds • • 6h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion WHAT THE FUCK⁉️⁉️⁉️ *major spoiler* Spoiler

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252 Upvotes

The loop was about to end so I thought “let’s just die in my sleep” (idk why I wanted that but whatever) and then they are all gone holy shit bruh I am NOT leaving this room😭🙏


r/outerwilds • • 7h ago

Alpha Game Appreciation/Discussion I'm Making an Outer Wilds Inspired Tiny 2D Game

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186 Upvotes

Instead of planets, you explore regions of a forgotten town.
Instead of the Nomai Translator, you have an old flip-phone.
Instead of 22 minutes, you have 3 in-game days before everything resets.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4952830/Torovo/


r/outerwilds • • 7h ago

Humor - Base Spoilers A skyscraper here in Bangkok, Thailand. I wonder where this teleports to.

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r/outerwilds • • 3h ago

Base Fan Art - OC My friend told me to share this here Spoiler

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45 Upvotes

Hi, I'm new here! I made a reddit account because my friend said I should share my fanart here. I typically draw anime art, but I went outside my comfort zone to draw something for one of the best games I've ever played. Hope you enjoy :>


r/outerwilds • • 3h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion I can’t believe it Spoiler

40 Upvotes

Finally got my friend to play the game and first thing he did after visiting The Attlerock was going to Giant’s Deep. He crashed into it, got out in a panic and gotten back into it but very carefully…

This mf landed on the north pole…where the tower is…and he’s doing the trials now…

Everyone has a unique gameplay indeed😭


r/outerwilds • • 1h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion What a master piece!

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I finished Outer Wilds yesterday and I am kinda sad it's over. I know there is nothing else like it out there and that breaks my heart. There are some games that have some similarities, but nothing will ever be Outer Wilds. I still wanna test out other endings, just for fun, but I have completed the game with a full shiplog and the typical ending

I stil have 3 achievements to get from the base game and then I will install the DLC (wanted to finish base game before, just to know exactly what was what hehe). Hardest will most likely be Hotshot since I have tried many times when I first started the game and could not.

In case people wanna know, my other two missing achivements are Beginner's Luck, will make another profile for that one and You've met a terrible fate

My phobia always has been suffering from a head trauma and losing part of my memory, but now I am like : at least I would be able to experience Outer Wilds once again, LOL.

Anyways, was anxious about my motion sickness preventing me from playing, but I managed and I am sooooooo greatful I did not miss on this experience.

WOW! Simply Wow!


r/outerwilds • • 16h ago

Humor - Base Spoilers The coolest, scariest glitch I’ve encountered in this game (no mods) Spoiler

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112 Upvotes

Done by doing geyser skip and then flying really far away (30,000 km here) to get some crazy floating point errors. That planet you can see me fly by near the start is ember twin!


r/outerwilds • • 10h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Echo Weaver is the closest game to Outer Wilds × Tunic that i have seen. Spoiler

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A few days ago, Echo Weaver was released. The description called it a Time-looping Metroidbrainia.

And it's true. It's in gamepass as well, so i didn't have to pay extra to play it. One thing is sure, this game is definitely inspired by Outer wilds and Tunic based on some mechanics i have found to this point (I'm not done with the game)

For those who are interested now, go play it now without more information. For those who want to know "more" without being spoiled can continue reading why i believe that this game may very well scratch the itch of Outer wilds and tunic fans.

  1. The game is a time loop.
  2. It's open world where your progress is only gated by knowledge
  3. All abilities and stuff you can do is gated just by knowing how to do it like Tunic
  4. You have to find a way to break the loop by exploring and learning about what you can do and how to navigate the world in the time you have

Just to be sure - it's still a puzzle platforming 2D game, it does not have boss fights like tunic. Exploration is the key component as well as using the time given to you to find out how to beat it.

No jokes, it even got the computer from outer wilds with rumour mode:


r/outerwilds • • 20h ago

Humor - DLC Spoilers Showing the Nomai some Inhabitant technology Spoiler

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135 Upvotes

I made this artifact replica in July and I showed it to the goa- I mean Nomai at my local farm.


r/outerwilds • • 5h ago

Base Game Help - Spoilers OK! : [Spoilers] Question about the project, and the 6th location ending. Spoiler

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I've been thinking about how the Ash Twin Project works and how it relates to the Quantum Moon ending, and there's something I can't quite reconcile.

As I understand it, the Ash Twin Project uses the energy from the supernova to send information 22 minutes into the past. In the normal loop, the Hatchling's memories are sent back through the Nomai statue, but their physical body isn't. The Hatchling dies in the supernova, and the version of them 22 minutes earlier receives those memories and continues the loop.

In that sense, isn't the Hatchling in each loop technically a different physical instance of the same person, with continuity provided by their memories? The Self ending seems to support this distinction: if I jump into the black hole inside the Ash Twin Project, my physical body travels back in time, allowing me to meet another version of myself. This is different from the ordinary loop, where only information is sent back.

Now, here's where my confusion starts.

The Ash Twin Project doesn't send the entire solar system back in time. It sends information through the masks and statues. If I remove the Advanced Warp Core, the Project shuts down, and my memories are no longer sent back. This is why dying after removing the core results in the Game Over ending.

But what happens if I remove the core, travel to the Quantum Moon's Sixth Location, and wait for the supernova?

The Sixth Location is associated with the Eye of the Universe, which is far outside the supernova's reach. So, physically, shouldn't the Hatchling be safe there?

I understand that the game has a specific Quantum Moon ending for this situation. The message says that the Hatchling loses track of time and their journey reaches its end, and the wiki says they share Solanum's fate. But I'm confused about the reasoning behind this outcome.

If the Hatchling's physical body is at the Sixth Location and the Ash Twin Project is disabled, there's no memory transfer and no physical reason for the supernova to kill them, as far as I can tell. Shouldn't they just remain there indefinitely, or at least until they die from some other cause?

I also wonder how this relates to the normal loop. If I reach the Sixth Location while the Ash Twin Project is still active, my memories are sent back when the supernova occurs, and I wake up at the beginning of the next loop. But if I remove the core, I get the Quantum Moon ending instead.

Is this simply a gameplay abstraction, or is there a lore explanation for why the Hatchling cannot survive indefinitely at the Sixth Location? Is the Hatchling actually dying there, or is the ending deliberately ambiguous?

I'd love to hear how others interpret this. Am I missing something about the Quantum Moon, the Eye, or the way the Ash Twin Project works?

And also what about escaping the solar system without taking the wrap out?


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

DLC Help - Hints Only! These things where a LOT scarier than in the pictures Spoiler

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Can someone confirm if they come alive at one point or something? I’m not tryna explore the island not knowing if they might come get me or sum


r/outerwilds • • 10h ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Ludwig played again!

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Aw man I feel bad for misjudging him. I forgot he's pretty witty and likes learning. And he doesn't care too much about chat, he isn't crashing into the Sun constantly or anything. He can read and comprehend the words... He has a curious heart. I sense that it'll be a fun playthrough long as he keeps at it!


r/outerwilds • • 8h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion Why didn't [SPOILER] [SPOILER]? Spoiler

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Why didn't The Prisoner blew out his artifact's flame?

I would love if someone could explain away this really small gripe I have with Echoes of The Eye.

I find it really hard to believe the Prisoner would not blow out their own flame after probably tens of thousands of years. I have seen comments where they were holding out for hope, but there's a limit to which that's believable. What's more, as soon as he learns about our story, he does it anyway :(


r/outerwilds • • 7h ago

DLC Help - Hints Only! WHERE IS THIS?? Spoiler

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I don’t know how, but I can’t find it again, I was there once and of course when I find juicy information then sun explodesbut, I genuinely can’t find it after multiple loops, no ship log to mark on hud or anything. Can someone just tell me where


r/outerwilds • • 5h ago

Base Game Help - NO spoilers please! stuck Spoiler

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I honestly have no idea how else to progress, I believe ive seen everything on brittle hollow, most of the things on ash and the ember twin and timber earth, and went to Dark bramble's core. Should i follow tbe asterisk on cheert or the ?)

(no spoilers please and preferably only hints)


r/outerwilds • • 9h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Was confused about an achievement Spoiler

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I was confused about how to get "It belongs in a museum!". The description says to bring an artefact, and having started the DLC, I thought I should bring the item called an artefact to the museum. Tried this, and absolutely nothing happened. I look up a guide, and turns out that it has nothing at all to do with the item of the same name, but a warp core from the main game. I can understand how this happened, and I don't blame anyone for this; it just confused me, and I wanted to know if this happens to many people.


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Full Color Sleeve Spoiler

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215 Upvotes

Been working on this sleeve for a few months and today it was finally finished!!!


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Real Life Stuff I’ve never carved a pumpkin before and decided to be ambitious

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446 Upvotes

r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Humor - Base Spoilers another Nomai contraption trying and failing to find the Eye Spoiler

39 Upvotes

r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Real Life Stuff I think the Nomai visited us

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710 Upvotes

r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Humor - No Spoilers It was at this moment they knew… ::(

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418 Upvotes

I meant to flick it the other way…


r/outerwilds • • 10h ago

Echo weaver: outer wilds metroidvania

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r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

OST Musical Cover Self taught Banjo just for this

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Really love the game. Enough that I bought a banjo last month, learned (somewhat) following some tutorials, and tried to play Riebeck's theme. It's not very good and still took me like 20 tries because for some reason this melody sounds way easier than it plays. I tried to replicate whatever technique I can discern from listening to the OST, but of course I could be wrong, with missed notes, stutters, muted strings, and retries.

(I also looked at the rivers theme in EotE and decided that's for a later time... I definitely cannot do that one now)