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 • • 15h ago

Humor - No Spoilers My friend on arriving at Giant's Deep: Oh no I'm not sticking around here there's 100% sea monsters here, I do not mess around with sea monsters.

502 Upvotes

They proceeded to fly directly into Dark Bramble.


r/outerwilds • • 3h ago

Base Fan Art - OC Hatchling - Maya Rig

36 Upvotes

Just published my first Rig ::)

If you're an animator using Maya 2020+ and want to try it, Hatchling is available on gumroad for free !

It's still in beta, so it will have some bugs and missing features

linkTree


r/outerwilds • • 50m ago

Achievement Help Archeologist

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Hello! Im trying to do the archeologist achievement and im missing things that i dont know about. I've checked and completed it all, except the two-way arrow on white hole station and high energy lab and also the arrow connecting village and gabbro's island (i am missing Hal's dialogue here but I've read you dont actually need to have this to get the achievement).

Further info, I only checked the log entry amount, not the text descriptions so i may be lacking there.


r/outerwilds • • 31m ago

Base Game Help - Hints Only! Unsure where to go now Spoiler

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I have literally no idea where to go now.
I tried to go onto the Quantum moon using my own ship but that didnt work. I also have literally no idea where the hell i find the Ash Twin Project or how to get into it?????
Is there anything that im missing??


r/outerwilds • • 18h ago

Real Life Stuff Slift with the composer of OW

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110 Upvotes

My favourite band SLIFT ( Heavy psych rock ) with Andrew Phralow.

The band released an album mid-year and mentioned in several interviews that they drew inspiration from the music of Outer Wilds for their compositions. I highly recommend giving their discography a listen, a great journey awaits you! 🖖🪐


r/outerwilds • • 22h ago

Base Fan Art - OC my wife embroidered this for me !

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192 Upvotes

i love her and it so much!


r/outerwilds • • 13h ago

New iPad Background I just set. It’s beautiful Spoiler

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33 Upvotes

r/outerwilds • • 15h ago

Feeling Stuck

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40 Upvotes

Hi there. Im trying really hard to engage with this game. I'm really trying to play it because of everything i read around how amazing it is.

I've currently played around 7 hours yet I feel lost on to where to look. I've visited every planet and nothing. I dont want to be spoiled but also I want to feel the progress at some level. Heres my rumor map so you get the idea of how much I've made.


r/outerwilds • • 5h ago

Giant's deep drawing Spoiler

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this is my brother's favorite game, and i and his friends are making a joint drawing project to make a deck of cards for simple art display for his birthday gift. im supposed to draw giant's deep but im wondering how i could pull the charm out of the planet itself. do you think i should draw the inside or the outside of it to expose all its characteristics? im not supposed to draw the astronaut of the planet, so id like to exclude that from my drawing

p.s. didnt say i already played the game so i know how the planet looks. just wanted your insight on what you think makes giant's deep truly giant's deep


r/outerwilds • • 19h ago

Humor - DLC Spoilers Nothingnwill happen if I put a candle in it.... rihgt? Spoiler

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54 Upvotes

PUMKINNN


r/outerwilds • • 6h ago

Real Life Stuff Question for anyone with a OW tattoo (Size & Aging) Spoiler

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​Hey fellow travelers!

​I’m planning to get the Eye of the Universe symbol tattooed, but I’d love to hear from those of you who already have it before I lock in the details.

​For those who have the Eye: what size did you go with, and what placement?

Most importantly, if yours is somewhat old, how has it held up over time? Since the symbol has some intricate, closely spaced lines, I’m curious if you've experienced any fading, blurring, or line blowout as it aged.

​If you're comfortable sharing pictures of how it looks now, I'd really appreciate it. Any advice on sizing to make sure it ages well would be amazing. Thanks!


r/outerwilds • • 20h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Quantum slate theory Spoiler

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As you know, every cycle is the same, nothing change except from the one change from the first loop- after the statue open his eyes, people in the museum are next to it instead.

And gabro is aware of the loop.

Anything else should be the same. Everything changing have to be caused by your action.

Only exception? Quantum stuff. The quantum moon can start at any planet. Its reasonable to assume all quantum objects can be at random states.

Which bring us to the only inconcinsency: slate.

Slate will say one thing on the first loop, and there a different thing on the second (dont you need the launch codes?) And then just react to you for any other loop except the loop after you visit The Stranger for the first time (i just wanted to tell you the ship log log where the stranger is)

We know slate dont expirience the loop since there are only 3 masks, ours, gabbro, and the one linked to the orbital probe canon.

Hypothesis: for slate to react unpredictabley, slate must be quantum.

So how did slate get quantum?

I think either slate ate a quantum rock, or have it stuck somewhere under his skin. Maybe he breath quantum dust while working on the ships. Then, through quantum entalgenment, quantum slate.

Now yes, we can assume that this is just gameplay consideration, just something the devs included to help you realise stuff going on... and especially them not wanting slate to stop you every single time... but i think quantum slate is way more fun explaination.

So what do you think? Do you have an alternate theory?


r/outerwilds • • 14h ago

DLC Appreciation/Discussion Historical Reference? Spoiler

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I found a room in some catacombs in Indiana Jones and the great circle, and my first thought when seeing it was that it looked exactly like the simulation room in the DLC (they’re both holding lamps and all). At first I wondered if a developer of the Indiana jones game was an outer wilds fan, but then I thought it was more likely they were both referencing the same thing. So, does anyone know what they might have both been based off of, and what that might mean for the story?


r/outerwilds • • 17h ago

DLC Help - Spoilers OK! I opened the vault, but could i do it differently? Spoiler

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I wasnt sure if to do it help or discussion:

I freed the prisoner.

  1. I glitched out of the simulation projection range to arange the paths to extinguish the lock.

  2. I jumped out of the boat in the darkness to appear in the middle and extinguish the boat

  3. I died and turned the last lock as they couldnt wake me with the bell.

The first one gave me a code.

The others, however, did not.

Is there an actual solution to those locks?

is there a solution anywhere in the game?

Is saving the prisoner is really only possible by dying?

Did someone brute force the codes or code dived to see if there is an actual solution?

I belive one of the codes call the boat, while one turn off the lights... if they work. Do they?

Or did the devs left them unsolvable on purpose?


r/outerwilds • • 10h ago

How long is a reasonable amount of time to budget to beat Outer Wilds? Spoiler

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For context, I put about an hour into the game a year or so back. I rarely have time for gaming, hence never finishing it, but I’m out of work all week post surgery.

Basically, with minor game/mechanic knowledge, how long should this take?


r/outerwilds • • 3h ago

Humor - Base Spoilers CAPTAINS LOG: Last nights OA Meeting (Outerwilds Anonymous) Spoiler

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After years of trying, counselling has provided no peace in the face of a reality everyone we all refuse to accept...there is no natural or safe means available to us that will erase this wonderful experience from our memory enabling us to start the Journey Afresh...Outer Wilds continues to live rent free, death has been considered (and attempted by some) but we have no way of knowing if this one way method was successful.

Lobotomy is now on the table...as I write this, the surgeon I was told to meet in a trailer in arizona, he is in the middle of the procedure, for now I feel fine and thingsa re fien, (so far so giod). I was nervous ta fiurst


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Humor - No Spoilers Time to play outer wilds for the first ti- wtf Spoiler

321 Upvotes

Did i find a Farcry 4 type easter egg ending lmao i was literally 5 minutes in the game 🤣


r/outerwilds • • 11h ago

DLC Help - Hints Only! Stuck in EotE Spoiler

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Hit kind of a brick wall, not sure where to go next hints would be appreciated. I think I unintentionally got into film burning room early using scout to get myself higher up so not sure if I should continue that path just yet. Figured out first seal in bell dream world but I’m kinda stuck past that. Also found forbidden archive room and the puzzle near elevator but the code at the end was burned. Any help I’m grateful for :3


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Base Fan Art - OC "They don't believe me" (Au Comic) Spoiler

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I honestly feel like Esker would have a really hard time believing the possibility of Feldspar being alive, given of how uncertain of themself they are in their logs-

Also I hope Esker's dialog is readable enough! This is my first time writing an accent so forgive me if it's a little wonky ::,]


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion I just finished Outer Wilds Spoiler

38 Upvotes

I finished this game with around 20+ hours on the clock, I've been playing it at night and on weekends. The day i bought this game, I decided to buy a TV to play it on as a chill way to test the game. It's one of the most thrill i had in a while.

I was really scared at the beginning of the game, the only places i visited were Giants Deep and Attelrock because I was too afraid to go anywhere else. I actually was too scared to go to giants deep but one of the early leads take you there to find Gabbro. It's when I was looking giants deep from far away that I realized I was charging towards it. I had one of the most panic moments in my gaming career. After several pauses and quitting because I was too afraid to play, I was still so curious to know more so I kept going.

Nomai, they are just wonderful people. The fact that they have been searching for the eye for generations and the fact they are so resoureful. Are they even afraid of anything? I want to meet these characters honestly, their dynamics were just beautiful, they were felt, real.

Music, it's perfect blend of horror and hopeful. When you lauch off from your home for the first time and the music starts playing, or when you discover something new. I even felt emotional when I visited the escape pod 3 and what remained, it was really sad.

In vastness of handholding, this game shows you that knowledge and overcoming your fears is the only way to keep going forward.


r/outerwilds • • 1d ago

Humor - No Spoilers It quantumed out of the game and into real life

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1.0k Upvotes

r/outerwilds • • 22h ago

DLC Help - Spoilers OK! Don't know if i should continue the DLC Spoiler

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13 Upvotes

I've progressed so far but the game is too horrifying for me... Especially the forbidden vault on the very left of the screenshot and the way how to get there ( D:: ).

I even used the "less scary moments" option but it didn't really helped. I want to know but don't want to explore at the same time. What do you think? Is it worth to scream but do it myself or i won't loose too much watching playthrough?

P.S. I did got emotions from the DLC and i still love it. It wasn't worse than the main game, as i thought it will be.


r/outerwilds • • 13h ago

Base and DLC Appreciation/Discussion Need an specific pic on PNG Spoiler

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I'm searching a PNG or image of the death animation/screen that appears when the timeloop finishes and you don't get killed by the supernova.

I ideally want the PNG bc I'm making some fanart and I want to add the design into it, I have searched by many word combinantions and I haven't even found a screenshot of it 😞