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Deal | Steam sale: Award-winning top-tier open-world sci-fi mystery game drops to record-low price

Outer Wilds in game screenshot showing angler fish structure
Outer Wilds features atmospheric graphics with a unique art style. (Image source: Steam)
Outer Wilds, a 3D adventure puzzle game that won multiple Game of the Year awards, including the BAFTA Best Game of 2020 award, is available for a new low price of $14.99, which is a 40% discount from the regular price. Search for answers about an ever-changing solar system stuck in a time loop and solve the mysteries about its previous inhabitants.

Outer Wilds launched in 2019, immediately earning itself a reputation as an immensely replayable adventure mystery game. It would go on to win the BAFTA Best Game award in 2020, alongside a number of Game of the Year awards from various game review publications. 

Now, Outer Wilds is discounted by 40%, bringing it down to its record-low price of $14.99 in a Steam sale. 

Outer Wilds - innovative gameplay praised immersive storytelling and unparalleled freedom

The main highlight of Outer Wilds is by far its environmental storytelling, which lets players pick apart the mysteries of the solar system and its history in their own time. Outer Wilds puts players in the shoes of a space cadet working for the Outer Wilds Ventures, attempting to investigate a dying solar system stuck in an endless time loop. As you explore the open-world solar system — replete with planets and moons, all of which you can land on — you'll solve puzzles, decipher ancient alien ruins, and inevitably die over and over again when the sun unavoidably goes supernova. 

There are 17 planets, moons, and other astral bodies to explore, and they each have their own look and feel, and some of them will kill you in unexpected ways, but for the most part, you are your own worst enemy in Outer Wilds. In every run, you learn more about the solar system, and when you retrace your steps in the next run, you'll notice shifts in the solar system that will teach you more about the nature of the place and the time loop it is trapped in. 

The Steam reviews for Outer Wilds are overwhelmingly positive, with 94.18% positive reviews, and most of the reviews praise the game for its outstanding environmental storytelling, excellent writing, and unparalleled freedom when it comes to exploration. The characters and puzzles also often feature as highlights, with the individual character motivations and the engaging challenges keeping players locked-in. Despite launching as far back as 2019, Outer Wilds still maintains a daily player count of nearly 2,000 players, which is impressive for a fairly short single-player experience and speaks to the game's successful storytelling and writing. 

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Julian van der Merwe, 2025-07-11 (Update: 2025-07-12)