The Outer Worlds — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| The Outer Worlds 2 Available to Pre-Order | 2025-06-08 | Coming October 29, 2025The Outer Worlds 2 launches October 29, 2025—pre-order now and explore Arcadia your way.If you thought Halcyon was bad, just wait until you visit Arcadia.Cut off from Earth, you arrive as an Earth Directorate agent with a mission. How you carry it out—who you help, hinder, or exploit—is up to you. Build your character with dynamic traits, flaws, and backgrounds that shape every decision and unlock new ways to fight, sneak, persuade, or just blow things up.Arcadia isn’t just bigger. It’s meaner, messier, and more reactive. And the only thing standing between it and collapse? You. Probably.Pick a Side. Or Don’t.Three fact |
| The Outer Worlds 2 Featuring More Action, More Weapons, and More Graphics! | 2024-12-13 | The call to venture beyond the stars has returned, and this time, it’s bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever. During The Game Awards 2024, we unveiled the first gameplay trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, promising a fresh adventure in a brand-new colony next year. No, really. The colony is completely new, and that’s a fact. Just, please—don’t break it. Yes, we’re looking at you, Hope-sun-launchers. True to Obsidian Entertainment’s signature style, The Outer Worlds 2 lets you carve your path through Arcadia, a colony brimming with factions, intrigue, and chaos. This is the birthplace of skip-drive technology and the battleground where |
| The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition | 2023-02-27 | Welcome to the future! We at Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division are excited to announce The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, which will be available next week on March 7 on Steam. The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way for new and returning fans alike to experience The Outer Worlds. Higher resolution graphics, a dynamic weather system, overhauled lighting and environments, improved performance and load times, enhanced details on characters, an increased level cap, and much more await spacers who bravely and boldly carve their path through the conspiratorial Halcyon colony. If you already have The Outer Wo |
| The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos is available now! | 2021-03-17 | The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos is out now. This is the second and final story expansion for the award-winning and critically acclaimed sci-fi RPG. Venture to Eridanos and solve the greatest mystery in the galaxy: “Who murdered Halcyon Helen?!” https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34059964/b5acd2ec640680596386eb589e1a7e6f2cb8dc92.jpg Halcyon’s beloved aetherwave serial actress is found dead at the Grand Colonial Hotel, just before the launch of Rizzo's Spectrum Brown Vodka. With everyone at the scene a potential suspect, can you and your crew uncover the truth? Follow the killer's trail with the Discrepan |