The Outer Wilds (PS5 version)

Aggressively unlikeable from the title screen, soundtracked with a Temu knockoff version of “Chasing Cars”, The Outer Wilds quickly embraces an existentialist story about a bunch of scientists who discover the Sun is dying, which I would consider a spoiler if I ever cared about stories that explore existentialism, which I don’t. The art style never wows, performance remains terrible even with a dedicated current-gen update, and these adventure game puzzles are more Myst than Gabriel Knight (read: they suck, they’ve always sucked, and anyone who says different sucks). One of the worst adventure games of the past ten years.

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