10 Things In Outer Wilds That Will Blow Your Mind
2. It's Meticulously Detailed Enviroments
Space is by in large, empty. So game of this nature can run the risk of feeling that way. Thankfully the designers have worked diligently to get the detail that is needed both lifelike and fitting.
Villages and ruins though feel like habitable places, that have history. Those that are inhabited are strewn with characterful and unique assets to sell these as plausible.
The ship is one of the most interesting assets in the game and is brimming with nuance. Its the place you'll spend the most time in; so it is just as well that I felt I discovered new details every time I entered it.
More impressive is the detailing all manages to feel culturally appropriate. Even when the extent of their culture spans a sphere scarcely larger than a beachball. For example the Hearthians hold up on your home planet Timber Hearth have an almost dangerous or lacklustre to architecture and a psychopathic one to engineering.
These details will sell the environments so well that you can be completely immersed in these worlds, the whole time you play.