Featured Image Credit: Obsidian Entertainment
Topics: Xbox, PC, PlayStation, Fallout
Once labeled as the Game of the Year by many in 2019, The Outer Worlds punched through the 15-inch thick steel vault doors that Fallout had erected around the post-apocalyptic RPG genre.
Yet with the emergence of Lucy (portrayed by Ella Purnell) on the big screen, Fallout's TV series reignited the franchise, and a fifth instalment of the main timeline is expected to be in development from Bethesda.
With the blue overalls becoming increasingly popular, rivals like Borderlands and The Outer Worlds have been caught in the crossfire, and now the latter is being pulled from stores. Kind of.
Those who traded in time in the atompunk nuclear wasteland of Fallout for new horizons in outer space will have found that The Outer Worlds was an instant hit - and its sequel was even better.
Seven years after it first launched, though, Obsidian Entertainment is delisting the original version of the game in favour of a refreshed version with a handful of freebies.
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Given that most players had moved on to updated versions of the game, the developers have announced that The Outer Worlds and its standalone DLC will be retired on May 27, with players being told to switch to the newly updated Spacer’s Choice Edition.
For those who do own the original game, the upgrade to Spacer's Choice will be free, granted that you already own the entire games (including DLCs worth $15), which can be claimed until May 27.
This change has also resulted in a pricing restructure for the title and its add-ons, as the $60 game has dropped to $40 to match the cost of the 'free' upgrade - those who paid $60 for the Spacer's Choice Edition won't be shortchanged, though, as players have been promised some tidy new features.
Although the blockbuster sequel title can be played for free through Game Pass, Obsidian Entertainment is actually turning its attention back to improving the original title by giving players the destructive tool that they always desired: grenades.
With the update coming to Spacer's Choice Edition, the cooked balls of gunpowder and shrapnel will add a new element to the combat that needed an injection of creativity.
Fallout fans, especially New Vegas players, would find a lot of similarities to The Outer Worlds, thanks to Obsidian's input on both games, and this could be your calling to experience a rough, yet creative, RPG that pulls you out of the depths of a nuked America and into the wonders of bright galaxies in need of a blaster - and a 'nade, now.
This is by far the end for The Outer Worlds, rather just moving the goal posts, and there's much more to be enjoyed in this planet-crawler.