Hey everybody, my name is Welonz and we are playing Outer Wilds today.
A open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless timeloop.
I think that's really our only primary objective here. To figure out why, and how to stop the time loop perhaps.
Basically, we're playing as a new recruit to a space program and we're being sent out to space to find out the mysteries of the world.
I'm actually a little bit worried right now, because I think this game is going to be a little bit out of my comfort zone.
It's probably going to be more sandboxy and nonlinear and open-world than pretty much anything I've played on the channel before.
Because I think the focus of this game is really on space exploration,
and the sense of adventure and intrigue and mystery.
Not really on, like, a really tight linear narrative.
So I don't know what is going to happen to me commentary-wise, but
this is published by Annapurna Interactive,
who's basically my favorite indie games publisher of the past few years. So I'm pretty willing to unquestioningly play anything they put out.
Oh.
Whoa.
Are we on earth?
Hello!
That seems like some kind of planet to me. And...
something is trailing it.
Okay.
Ooh! Roast marshmallow.
O God, no! It's still edible though.
How about just above the fire.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Okay.
All right, Slate.
Oh!
Okay, yeah, we're not on earth.
In this case, I don't even think I'm human, right? It's definitely not a given.
Hmm.
The observatory...
What was that?
Something just flew by in the background.
Oh.
This is our launch rocket.
Okay.
We just woke up.
The jumping requires a little bit of effort.
Mica.
Geyser pools?
Fly model ship.
Oh, wow, wow, wow!
Wo-hohohooow!
Oh.
My god.
There's thrusters that go up or down.
Oh, oh
I'm really sorry.
Should I try again?
I guess so.
We have to land in the geyser pool when there's no geyser, right?
So, we've got to wait a little bit here.
Oh, God. No! No, I can fix this!
My thing is flipped!
Maybe I should just reset.
Yeah, that wasn't really working out, was it?
Oh God!
Now I got the same problem again.
You gotta come back down.
*laughs*
Why am I so bad at this?
Okay, one last try.
Is the geyser gonna come up?
Oh, I still missed...
Ooah!
There we go.
I think they've wanted me to land on the one with a flag, though. Not the one with the pool.
Okay. I've had my fun. Thank you.
Ehh, maybe?
We've got to go find Hornfels.
Launch Tower.
Hello!
Porphry.
Porphy?
Thank you!
I guess that's his place. It's a little bit floating here. The gravity is not it's not 1g probably
It's a little bit floaty here. The gravity is not...
It's not 1 g probably.
Outer Wilds ventures presents postcards from orbit.
Rutile.
I think I'll need it. Thank you
Oh, it's like a presentation. This projector is linked to our sky shutter a satellite,
which is currently orbiting timber hearth. The satellite is equipped with two onboard cameras.
See if you can take a snapshot of our village!
Okay, uh...
Rearview.
Oh!
Oh, wow!
It is taking a picture every moment, because it keeps moving around.
Cool.
It's like a mini museum here.
Lot of little gadgets.
I'm the latest recruit and they're letting me go on a mission.
Does that mean that they send the youngest ones, so they can go die and they don't lose a good people?
I hope not!
A lot of people here.
Oh, this is the geyserpool.
Yeah.
Marl.
How reassuring...
Gneiss.
Good to know.
Okay, so there's a waterfall here. Over there.
Yeah, sign right here.
Okay.
Oh it's daytime!
I've been taking so long. It's daytime now.
We can't go into any of these houses, can we?
Okay.
Tephra.
It's like a mini tutorial here, huh?
Frequency: hide-and-seek.
Will I know that I'm getting closer?
Oh?
So this'll be how I find things in space
No, we talked to you already.  Nah, I'm good. Take care of yourself in space~
I thought there was an unknown object.
Yeah, like, somewhere here?
Maybe we got to go around a little bit?
O-oh!
Fell in the water.
Maybe you will find this one first. This one is a little bit further away. But we have a better idea. Of...
Oh!
Wait, what? It turned green just now.
Can we do anything about this or...  Maybe it's not this.
I was hoping we could jump up onto that.
Yeah, it's there.
Man, I'm really bad at hide-and-seek, apparently.
Oh!
Here they are!
One of them.
Finally!
Oh, noo!
Maybe I can drop down from here instead.  Yeah.
Seems a little bit safer.
Yeah.
All right.
Where is the other one? Somewhere over there.
You hear music whenever you're doing it right.
Are they inside the house? No.
You didn't win, I won!
Okay, well that was the thing.
Dang, they were hiding right there.
Okay, well, continuing on our little trek here to say bye to everybody.
Zero-g cave up ahead, -- Spinel.
Okay.
Giants Deep, that seems like it's one of the planets that we can visit.
Oh wow...
What's our planet called? I know we're the hearthians.
But what are we called?
Observatory.
What are you doing?
Ooh.
Arkose.
There's like planets blocking the sun and stuff.
Ghost matter, huh?
Can I throw a rock at it?
So it kind of looks like Northern Lights.
From our perspective anyway. Yeah.
Okay, but we can't see it. So hopefully we'll have our own camera once we launch off.
Can't get up there.
It's been several days already and I still haven't gotten to the observatory.
Let me just look around a little bit.
Pretty.
Moraine.
Hmm, can we listen to music, too?
Something's there, huh.
Maybe if we explore that planet we can find out.
Oh, we only have two channels for now. Two frequencies. Okay, cool.
Now, is Hornfels the last person I'm looking for here?
Okay?
Caaave..?
This is the cave, right?
Whatever G were in right now, it's not zero, but now we'll be going into zero G.
which...
might actually be easier for us to move around in.
Oh, look at that.
It doesn't seem like it's truly zero just yet, though.
Maybe we're not deep enough into the cave?
Here we are.
Oh, it's just like that model ship that we were playing with. We just gotta figure this out.
Up.
Hey.
Tuff.
Sorry about that!
Ah, we're in 0.4 G right now.
Okay...
Here we are, here we are.
We'll take it slow.
That is NOT taking it slow, but we're fine. Now it's 0.3
Will I know the satellite when I see it?
Now it's zero.
Oh God.
Floating all over the place. I don't have unlimited fuel though. So let's be careful here.
Woow.
Lock on...
Velocity matced.
Can't match the velocity! We gotta prepare this and all that good stuff. Oh dear, I am so good at this!
Let me just stand here.
I can't even do THAT because I'm frickin' zero G right now.
Let's hold on.
There we go! Now we go one. How do I roll over? Oh, here we go.
We got more things that need repairing hear.
Let's go.
Satellite node.
Good!
Good, good, good.
Now we got to find the third one which is...  Is it inside?
That's not a pipe.
We're just putting tape on the cables, is that really all right?
But cool, we are doing good enough with the simulation that we can at least repair the satellite.
Which is something we'll need to do in space, probably. So it's good to get a little practice in.
We got to get out of here now.
Fuel is not unlimited after all.
it's okay, bumping into things is okay.
Uh?
If I want to get back up this dude is here.
How did I get back up again?
Here we go.
I did it~
I try my best. Thank you master!
Observatory is...
this way? But I thought we came from this way. No, we came from the bridge
The observatory is right.
Right here.
Here we go.
Wow...
That sounds like somebody's been unintentionally launched before ^^
Ooh.
Hornfels, Gossan, Feldspar, Esker, slate. The old-timers --  founding members.
Oh, are these like backers or something? 'Cause these seemed like real names.
Oh, Yeah...
That's strange, there's like a face here.
But it also kind of seems like a face looking down here... or is that just kind of like the neck?
I guess so...
Hey, who knows! Maybe we'll be running into one of these guys live.
Which is what we're doing.
Very unusual.
So we're taking their technology and using it for our own stuff.
There's a lot here.
His crystal is from a know my ruin
Oh, wow!
How do I... Oh.
Again, that's insane.
Wow!
Some other drawings and ruins.
Oh, okay.
Heeey~
You remind me of the one I saw in Soma.
Well, this seems pretty consistent with our own astronomy right? On Earth?
And then becomes a red giant, and then a super nova happens.
It's like Schrödinger's rock?
Aah!
Aah!
Oh, that's creepy, that's creepy.
That's just space things, man!
It's not moving anymore.
Oh, it is moving a little bit, back the other way. Okay, that's cool.
*sigh* I think we've gotten sidetracked long enough.
Hmm...
Maybe I'll start with something a bit more familiar.
This is the solar system?
Let's see-- Oh, OUR solar system!
Not Earth's...
Looks like Morse code.
Okay.
So I noticed that so far, in all of our conversations, the issue of the universe being stuck in a time loop hasn't really come up yet.
Maybe that's something we'll just have to see happen firsthand.
Space. It's always a very fascinating topic, huh? Because it's a place that we don't know too much about.
Oh, lovely. Oh, this is really lovely!
Definitely not earth.
Okay, so we are on Timber Hearth.
And there's the hourglass twins.
Earlier, they mentioned that somebody is there.
And brittle Hollow.
Maybe that's a moon, around Brittle Hollow?
Dark Bramble.
Giant's Deep.
I think there is an astronaut on all these planets.
Yeah... Rotate view.
Can I go closer?
Hollow's Lantern, one of their moons. Cool.
This one also has a moon -- Whoa, this one looks like a friggin' tree!
How are we gonna traverse that?
The moon doesn't have a name, so maybe it hasn't been discovered yet.
What's this?
Oh, the lunar traveller or... no, maybe not.
Ash Twin, Ember Twin.
Oh my god, they're like rotating with each other!
It's insane. And we're gonna get to visit all these places. Isn't that exciting?
The Attlerock.
Giant's deep. Oh, this is what we saw earlier when we woke up.
There's some like... stuff...
...just rotating around it. And there's a storm here. And a lot of moons.
Earlier the fisherman was telling me about how dangerous this place is.
Okay.
That was a lot of talking to people here.
but it's the last time we're gonna be here, right? Because we're gonna go explore.
Wow.
Woow!
Oh, that's the stuff I did today!
What?
Well, the guy is gone.
Did it take my memories from what I did today?
Feeling all fired up already. Let's see if we can figure this out, huh?
Didn't you make the statue? Who made it?
I thought somebody carved the statue.
Somebody from our own planet, but we probably picked it up off somewhere else.
So that statue was made by the Nomai, and...
that's why it's doing weird things.
Kind of makes me feel like a chosen one, huh.
We'll just have to see.
Tephra, you're back.
I won't! I won't.
So feldspar is kind of like their Armstrong.
The first Hearthian to ever go to space.
Intentionally.
All right. Meet me up there, all right?
Oh my god.
Are we ready?
This is our ship?
It looks kind of...  hastily put together. I have to say the least. ^^
Here goes nothing!
Oh boy.
Little Scout -- See beyond the horizon -- Illuminate dark areas -- Detect hazards -- Test the environment.
Timber Hearth. Rumour mode.
Oh, like what we can check out?
So we can choose to check out different things here.
gabbro.
Gabbro might be a giant's deep.
Yep. I repaired the satellite for the dude.
Esker is on Attlerock. Yeah, why don't we start small and go here first? Can we do that?
Map mode.
How do I add a marker?
Yeah, there's a lot going on here, but why don't we just set off. And we'll worry about this later.
Yeah.
Okay, I just wonder, cuz earlier I thought we could set a marker on this, but I don't see a marker setter-thingy here.
Space, mark location on HUD.
No.
Oh, we can't mark it yet because we haven't been there. Okay, that makes sense. Fine!
Cool.
Oh, look, it's that rock that helps us travel on the land!
Oxygen refill:
Spot a tree walk towards it breathe and enjoy. Ha ha ha ha!
Got some little trees here. I'm sure that really helps with the oxygen.
Man, it's 1.8 G right now, goodness.
'Kay, are we gonna be okay?
Here we go. Hooo!
Oh!
People, we're in space!
That's the Sun, but I don't think we should be heading towards the Sun, all right.
We have liftoff.
Can we go to Attlerock?
Yes! Right here.
I can engage an autopilot, but let me see if I can try to do this on my own first.
Do I just crash land?
Ooh noo!
Oh no.
Let me land, please.
Did we do it?
Well, that was a really short trek, but hey, we're starting small, right
Yeah, and now that we're here...
We can open the map at any time.
I love this map.
Okay, let's see if we can't find...
Esker.
Outer Wilds frequency.
Ooh, that's really far. That's not Esker.
Hey, how am I gonna find my -- Am I gonna be able to find my ship later on?
Oh, do we need a camera?
Wasn't there something about how, if we walk into the ghost stuff, ghost matter we're gonna get hurt?
How do we refuel by the way?
Not quite sure. Oh check that out, check that map out!
On the left side.
That's really cool.
But um, I think we might have landed on the wrong side of the moon here, because I can't really get anywhere.
So in that case, let me see if I can...
...take off and land on the other side. Maybe that would make it a little bit easier for us.
Scout launcher.
Launch scout? Oh, maybe that's like for dangerous planets.
Okay.
Oh, It's like a camera or something .
Yeah, here we go. Esko has got to be there.
Let's try, no -- woow.
Good enough.
Yeah.
I'm not quite the best lander here, but hey.
I'm not seeing any pictures on my scout at all.
It's okay, I think we're good.
Let's see if this is a little bit better.
Unidentified signal nearby.
Let's go.
Trees, oxygen.
Hey -- oh Eskèr. Excuse me.
No, I know where we are, we're on Attlerock!
Okay, thank you talk to you later!
Well, we started small and -- Oh my god, whoa! There's a geyser there!
That's cool.
Yeah, someone's there.
Can we check out the map and see who that is?
The interloper.
Wait, what? Is that a planet?
That doesn't seem like a planet, almost.
Maybe we should head towards that next. If we can catch it.
Maybe I'll walk around a little bit.
You don't really got too much going on here, do you?
Yeah, this isn't really too crazy, just because it's the moon and we're pretty familiar with it, aren't we?
Is someone on the Sun?
My goodness
Right, so according to that map here, if we go to the North Pole, which should be right here...
There's music from really far away.
This is the North Pole, people.
That's weird
Ooh, that sounds scary. That's Giant's deep, right?
Hmm. But we can hear the banjo.
So maybe whoever is on it is doing okay.
Is that timber's Hearth?
Timber's hearth is... oh the one with the geysers.
Yeah.
That's a harmonica.
Weird, why can we hear that?
Can we go back to Esker really quickly, so we can get a refuel on the oxygen and... how do we get fuel?
I Don't actually know.
Oh, yeah, I can use fuel like this. I don't have to like...
Yeah, trees! Oh we probably get fuel by going back to the ship.
Okay, well, I mean, we can check out this planet right here.
It's literally right next to us.
We'll see.
Maybe look at the ship log, maybe just fly off cuz I feel like it.
That's what space exploration is all about, baby.
Plan? What plan? just go towards the sun and die a fiery death.
Okay. Well, this one's right here.
Sure if we can catch it.
This one's really small though, are you actually going to the Sun?
Because I don't think we can do that.
Uh, I don't think we can land on this.
Oh!
Whoa, well that was like a cloudy gassy thingy. It wasn't a planet.
Let's see if we can go to Ember Twin then, since it is right here.
Oh, God!
Maybe I should learn how to land properly, but what's the fun in that?
Dude, I feel like we're right next to the freaking Sun!
Oh God!
Oh!
Exit ship to repair,  headlights damaged,landing gear damaged.
And there's a frickin' geyser right next to us.
Should I move the ship a little bit?
Yeah, just put it on the ground here... Lord.
Oh no, I'm wrecking the ship already.
Landing gear.
So, I guess that's sort of the problem too, because if we go to a planet with no trees, then we have a limited amount of oxygen and we got to get up ASAP.
So that's something that we'll have to be...
...careful about.
Okay, this is good. We don't have to, like, collect supplies or anything.
yeah, okay.
Cool.
Now, let's see if we can walk to the North Pole of this place then.
It seems a little bit difficult though. We kind of landed right in the middle between the North Pole and the South Pole.
Maybe it'll be better for me to um -- oh.
Maybe it would be better for me to land nearer to the hole here, to one of the poles.
Well, hold on.
Oh, I don't think that should be touching me, right?
what is that!
God.
Is that a stream of water, or, like what even is that?
Nomaian technology maybe.
My goal is to get to the North Pole.
Pretty simple.
Not anything super crazy.
Is it this side?
We've gone to the South Pole actually, but I noticed here... Was there something on the edge here? There was like a little...
...circular thing I thought I saw?
Yeah, that.
What's that?
Um.
It's sinking.
Can we wait for it to unsink?
I'm kind of uncomfortable with how close to the Sun we are. It's kind of nuts right now.
Dude the whole thing is sinking. Maybe we should just try to land on that thing right there.
I mean, I guess we can.
Oh...
Should I do that with my ship or should I just try to go over there by myself?
No. Hey who's on this planet? Let me find out who's on this planet.
Yeah, there's someone on the North Pole. We have to get to the North Pole.
If we can.
Whenever I'm in this mode though, I feel like I don't know the directions or anything.
Oh, what the heck is that?
Hold on.
We gotta settle down here.
Yeah.
Whoa.
No-no-no-no.
Oh, we kind of landed right on the thing.
what is this?
Oh!
We found a thing, but how do I like record this? I wonder.  Can I just take a photo of it?
Aw.
Um...
I think we found some Nomaian mysteries here. The question is though, what do I do about this?
Oh?
What the...?
Oh...
Why are you suddenly moving so fast?
I'm trying to look at the symbols right now, but they don't particularly match... the other ones do they?
Oh wow.
Oh.
Okay.
I guess I should try and see what this is all about.
No.
Trees detected. Thank you.
Wait, what's that noise?
Oh!
Wow!
The time loop.
