Outer Wilds and the Beauty of Emergent Gameplay Design
Editor’s Note: mild spoilers for Outer Wilds concepts are present in this editorial. Specific details and plot elements are kept as vague as possible, but but this is a game best experienced blind. Exercise caution before reading, but do play the game first and come back to this editorial after. It’s worth your time. Had I playedOuter Wildsin 2019, it would inevitably have been inmy recent Top 10 list. A safe estimate would probably be that it would be #4, since it didn’t impact me quite as much asDisco Elysium, but I digress....