Fun fact: You can get the "You died" message without ever reaching the warp core. You can jump into the geysers or off the observatory cliff to fall to your death before triggering the memory link with the statue.
without knowing anything about the game I fell off the cliff before the observatory when I started and got the "you died" message, I thought to myself "oh so this is the type of game where death is permenant"
From the Nomai point of view the Ash Twin project was a waste of time due to the sun station project failing to explode the sun. I think Solanum would be confused rather than angry or worried. From their perspective the advanced warp core is useless.
@@boletarianbread7349 yeah her response would probably be something along the lines of, 'oh yeah, that. i hate to break it to you but it doesn't work. sorry'
I don't know if it counts as an alternative ending but if you trow the cam while you are in the eye of the universe you get to see it in the final cut-scene
Notably, if you get the canon ending without ever meeting solanum, she wont be there at the eye and life won't form in the next universe in the 14.8 billion years later cutscene.
@@gamesdeen3768 hmm... is that insinuating that the nomai are the first form of life or that solanum witnessed the birth of life? i mean, we know the nomai were aware of the beginning of life on timber hearth so maybe solanum understood how life begins in a more formative way than the people of timber hearth
@@gamesdeen3768 how do you know it's Canon? Also, how do you know they didn't form in the new universe? I guess because we never met them so couldn't create them?
@@HotdogSosage in the final image after the credits if you don't meet solanum the insect like creatures seen roasting the marshmallows don't appear and the woods are left in the dark. Probably suggesting that life didn't develop in some way. It's left up to the player to decide the ending based on their actions but I would imagine with any sequel game that the canon story would be that you did everything and met everyone to create the best possible ending. Perhaps Solanum created the seed for life in the ending campfire scene and everyone else added in their own little something, together creating the formula for the next universe.
Made the canonical ending on my first try with the removed warp core. Haven't gotten that level of adrenaline from a game in my life. Simply spectacular with the story and soundtrack combined with my ~20 hours of knowledge on the ingame mechanics
Just finished it less than an hour ago… after googling whether you could die for real once you removed the warp core I was really really nervous. After going through all those loops there was no way I was going to let myself die even if I could reset it. Fortunately I had done the journey a few times cause of screwing around so I knew exactly what to do, but I was so afraid the whole time. And wouldn’t you know it, right before I entered the final bramble seed I heard an Anglerfish growling at me, which had never happened before, and my heart basically leapt out of my chest. I panicked a bit but thankfully I made it. Was probably one of the biggest scares I’ve ever had in a video game. The rest of the ending was pretty freaky too, of course…
@@maximusthedude8305 I died multiple times rushing to the Vessel by crashing into Dark Bramble and getting eaten because I thought I only had the length of that modified end song to make it lol. I got the game over screen and credits and it was such a weird feeling after all the loops. The entire ending was just great and full of surprises.
The Eye of the Universe ending of this game is simply amazing, it truly feels like that’s the end of the game. And I love the vagueness of what the hell just happened, leaves lots up to interpretation. My personal take on it is when you jump into the eye of the universe, the sheer complexity and confusion gets to you so hard that you try and find a way to make yourself comfortable, so you picture everyone you’ve met on your journey, even including Solanum. And since the law of quantum imaging makes you part of what you can see, it forms that into reality. Who knows, maybe all of the Nomai in Dark Bramble huddling together to make themselves feel better in times of total confusion was foreshadowing to this very moment. Maybe I’m wrong about all of this, but even then, one things is clear even with all of the loose ends. *Fuck those fucking anglerfish.*
I think the final little puzzle in the eye where you reach for the sky around 6 nomai skeletons is the most poetic thing. Each dead nomai piled up higher each time to reach the sky, and then finally they built a shuttle to fetch the mask of solamum.
It made me understand that the eventualities beyond our control don't mean that nothing matters, but rather what we choose to do, including making music with your friends, matters to each other and that's all that matters. The universe doesn't have purpose, it just is. Which makes me feel like it's not up to me to understand it, but to simply exist in it, and to do what makes me happy.
@@luckymankwok Very "shoulders of giants". The Hearthians' entire space program is built around scavenged Nomai technology, and, while, with the possible exception of Solanum, the Nomai never knew it, it was their project that led to the Eye finally being discovered and the birth of a new universe from the embers of the old. Even their care to avoid disturbing the emerging aquatic fauna of the one habitable planet proved to be key in the end - if they hadn't preserved the ancestral Hearthians, there would have been no conscious life in the system...
Dark bramble was the first planet I visit because I saw the seed back in Timber Hearth. Mf made me panorpoid when visiting other planet for a good while.
The first time I made it to the warp core and heard the music I thought that I wouldn’t have enough time to make it back to the mothership so I meditated (thinking I could try again earlier in the loop) but got a game over screen.
@@ahzrukhal3615 Yep, I even tried to train myself beforehead, realizing that taking the wrap core will break the cycle. As I had issues with dark brumble and anglefish. So I tested it like 10 times and everything was perfect, I even learned the navigation by hard so I didn't need beacon to reach the destination. And you know what? First thing I did when I took the core out was missing the ship and flying into open space at full speed. Goddammit, cj, you had one job
@@Afdog I was so thankful the day someone online pointed out that you could just mark the Vessel in your computer after you've been there once so you don't have to do the beacon stuff for the final run. And then the DLC came out and added a bit where Slate specifically stops you to tell you about marking things.
@@WigglesMother and it shows it’s location? Lol I didn’t know this was a thing But it wasn’t complicated to navigate there after 2-3 attempts, it’s actually easier than it looks. But the anglerfish man, it infuriated me
When I finished this game, I let the credits roll completely while listening to the song. Outer Wilds is one of those games in which you never want to finish, that even until the credits you try to keep them with you to avoid closing it.
I like to watch all credits of the game I loved. I don't know why. I like to know the names of the guys who made the games. An I smile at 53:26, seeing a message in French (even if it contains a big grammatical mistake haha)
The canon ending never fails to make me cry. The whole game you're taught to use your time wisely, that you only have 22 minutes until you have to start again, and every loop you're finding new ways to make that time all the more effective, do just a little bit more in the time you have. But it's a constant - you die. The sun goes supernova. You can't stop time, and you can't stop the eruption of the universe. Then you get to the Eye, and there's a sort of feeble hope that maybe now, now that you're in the middle of things, now that you're a part of the universe's very fabric in all its life and death and destruction and rebirth, that maybe now you can stop the cycle of death. But you can't. And it's bittersweet, because you know you can't, you know that the universe that you know will be gone, and is gone, and has been gone for time innumerable, but the end of one day leads to the next. You get to watch as the universe goes on, and will go on, and has gone on, being reborn and remade and recreated a million million million times over. It fucks with me so much I love it.
Now think about how many times your own body and brain do this in a life time... or did you not know your constantly dying and rebuilding untill you reach the bottom of your potential and die forever.
In my gaming career. I've never had such an ending touch my soul. This is now the 3rd time I've witnessed this ending. Being brought to tears each time. I honestly feel like this may be the closest to witnessing death without actually doing it. It feels so overwhelming, overpowering that you can't and won't understand it. All you know, is that its ending. Truly this time. I'm really glad to have found this game and achieved what I did. The feeling I got from this game is unlike anything I've experienced. I just finished the game recently and when I first jumped into the eye. Saw the stars slowly integrate into your home. My mouth dropped, my heart sunk. This was it. Man what a "game".
Oh and how each npc starts playing/joining in. You hear the whole group one last time. What a finishing touch, considering it's one of the first things you witness in the game
Play Rain World. I found Outer Wilds through attempting to find anything that even compares to what Rain World did for me. If OW impacted you this much I really want to see if Rain World gives you the same insane impact it did for me.
@@attenia She might know about the Ash Twin project and realise that was the core of it. As far as I know, majority of the Nomai knew of it, as it was their plan to find the eye.
@@TenebiCenturion but I thought solanum was a nomai who just became an adult by visiting the sixth location. And the ash twin project was also considered a miss as they didn't get to make the sun explode. So even if she new what that is (from school perhaps) for her this core should be next to useless. She might be like "huh you found our warp ore... Nice? I guess...?" but nothing more.
I got the isolation ending on my first playthrough, didn't have time to get to dark bramble. If you look on the map, you can see the shockwave dissipate and the scorched remains of the solar system
i discovered the spacetime one myself, kinda just messing about, and i was like - huh, look there are 2scouts now - so now what happens, and i was just about to wonder if i got 2 photographs or would only one of them return and leave the other there - but quickly the space started cracking - and it frightened the crap out of me for a minute - but then was like "that was cooooooool.....!
There's an additional ending you can get since the release of Echoes of the Eye. If you remove the warp core from the ash twin project and then ride the Stranger until after the sun supernovas, since the stranger leaves the solar system, you get something similar to the isolation ending.
@@Higher-Ground Yup, this is why you dont die at the end of the loop in the stranger. And this is why the bridge breaks because you turn on the engine of the whole thing to get away from the sun.
42:11 I saw that little shake when you saw the angler fish skeleton😂 I did this ending yesterday for the second time but I forgot what happened and I used my jet pack full speed and ran into it and let out a little “AHHH” my whole body took a screenshot
I just experiences the ending & when that part happened, I just backed up till I was at the camp. The fish went all the way to me before some flimmering happened and it dissapeared. I do not like those fish.
@@TenebiCenturion I also retreated to the camp, but I never saw it disappear, so I just slowly went to the harmonica (since I've found out you can actually use a tiny tap of movement while in the spaceship and it wouldn't attack, I assumed the same for being on foot XD)
I love that the true ending of the game is based on a real theory, that if whe discover what the universe is it will create another universe more inexplicable than the last one
Isn't that form The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I believe the full quote goes: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened."
The game heavily implies that with the ending. Your scout flies by if you shoot it while in the Eye of the Universe. In game you can find the voyager. I feel that implies this game happens in the next universe to ours, which is kind of hopeful. Also the jump from 2, to 3 to 4 eyes makes sense too.
I think the theory is that if you enter the eye of the universe it will be forced to lock into a single set of possibilities and thus create a new universe as a result of your observation.
I'm not entirely sure why that breaks timespace though. I guess the idea is that we're the other self from 22 min ago so if past self dies, then future self shouldn't be able to exist, but the thing is, as soon as we wake up and do anything different or have any different memory (which we do thanks to the ash twin project), that removes any possibilities of us becoming our 22 min older self. So either the game over should happen immediately at the start of the loop (which wouldn't be very satisfying or clear), or the thing works on multiverse theory and even dying shouldn't break the space time continuum.
@@Arkayjiya The loop from the forward-time machine in Futurama works the same way. Farnsworth, Fry, and Bender have to 'skip' one universe (or are fated to) to fulfill the conditions of the loop. Farnsworth also has to miss his second shot at Hitler for the same reason.
@@Arkayjiya The self you encounter doesn't mention being from your (remembered) past loop though. They're from your current loop, 22 minutes in the future.
Same, until i saw that a steam trophy makes you do the one about removing the white hole before the explorer goes through the black one. But the other 3 were unknown for me :o
You standing in front of the camera with Solanum during the increased speed and music in the background at 20:04 lol, idk why but it felt so wholesome XD
You can also get the game over ending by dieing before even going into the museum. Fall damage, ghost matter, even the fire pit can all be fun ways to speed run life.
This game is a masterpiece. I laughed. I cried. I felt deep fear. I felt awe. It's a stunning achievement. Believe me I've played games for 30 years. It'll go down as one of the best games ever made.
I have been playing videos games since late 90s, I am almost 40 now…. Outer wilds ending made me cry like a baby… I am happy I am still alive to experience such a masterpiece.
@@emiliomarbanjr it’s pretty relevant. Solanium is always referred by she in all of the writing that involves her and calling them him is just flat wrong
@@thefatherinthecave943 it's not relevant to the point OP was making. What does her gender matter here? It's just a fictional character, she's not gonna get mad for being misgendered lmao
@@sharku8417 idk. But they're not wrong in saying that. Who knows, maybe Solanum being female and life appearing has some implication of her being a "mother of life" Gender does sometimes matter, especially when theorising things. There's nothing wrong with someone pointing it out
its incredible to see peoples thoughts on this game. this comment box really feel like home. we are brothers just cause we all felt this goosebumps with such a good and deep history that explores the damn meaning of the universe in a very artistic way. im glad that i found this game. if someone havent seen interestellar (movie), i truly recommend it. make me feel the same way and the soundtrack is amazing too. love for yall
@@zzodysseuszz girl why are you here. people just come here after completing the game and seeing how good the ending is, and it’s nice to see others who were touched by it. this game means a lot to me, and i don’t think any of us are really exaggerating that much. but being annoyed enough by people praising a game in a video about the game’s ending(s) to leave a comment complaining about it? seems pretty dramatic to me
Before I figured out there was an advanced warp core inside ash twin I thought what you had to do was take an individual black hole and white hole core from the high energy lab and transport them to the vessel. I reevaluated when you couldn’t drop items inside your ship meaning you would have to make two separate trips to the vessel.
an interesting detail is that if you shoot your scout into the eye of the universe and you can't bring it back. at the end with the screen, instead of a white planet, you get the cliff of the eye of the universe and your scout finally makes it out the other side.
Fun fact: In the Final Eye of the universe, if you throw a scout out of the atmosphere you cannot recover it. And in the post-credits scene it appears flying in the new universe.
So I just barely finished the game my first time just now. Was on the eye of the universe and was launching and recalling my scout over and over low at the horizon to make sure I was going the right way. Then I shoot it too high and lose it forever. Made me sad. Also made me worried that I was gonna get a bad ending once I was meeting up with my fellow hearthians, like was I going to need to use it for one last quantum image trick? Then it was clear I was fine, got the band back together. Watched a universe rebirth, sat in awe at the music in the credits. And man, I kid you not I did the Leonardo pointing meme the second that scout flew by. That’s me! (Tries not to cry again…)
@@pichelguy346 Two new endings (for being in the new locations after the loop ends), and variations on the canon ending (for having an extra character available to remember).
That one with the scouts really surprised me. But I think instead of instantly breaking spacetime, it should instead break when you try to recall them to your gun.
No, it would instantly break the universe. It’s essentially creating duplicate molecules and atoms that both exist and don’t exist in two separate places. The energy from that alone would be more massive than several trillion stars all exploding at once, and it’s energy that violates time causality. You’re basically making an explosion in the future that still effects the past.
@@jesserobertson808 you reckon someone is gonna do that in the future? the formula for a black hole is fairly simple even though it's basically impossible with todays technology
@@staymadbitch6498 this game takes a lot of scientific liberties. The black hole in the game is actually a wormhole, something that hasn’t been observed yet but would be in line with the theory of relativity. However, even if a worm hole does exist, it can’t violate causality. An object entering a wormhole may appear on the other side in the future relative to outside observers, if the wormhole accelerated the object near the speed of light, but it can never travel backwards through time. Because of this, no object could exit a wormhole before entering it, so there’s no need to worry about duplicate/quantum material. Human beings also do not have the technology or material to create a black hole that wouldn’t instantly collapse on itself. Black holes need objects that are as massive as stars (at least 3 times as heavy as the sun) in order to remain stable, earth just doesn’t have enough mass to create one.
The reason it breaks space time is the same with the self ending, you created a copy of an object while simultaneously getting rid of the black hole that spawned it, creating a paradox, the second probe CANT exist but does, the self ending proves that it’s not two probes existing at once that breaks things, just the removal of the cause
Outer Wilds easily has one of the strongest, most well-earned endings of any game, ever. Absolutely mind blowing the first time you see it. It’s so trippy and disorienting at first, but you come to realize the situation by the final campfire and it takes a really melancholy tone. You’re all dead, everything is dead, but it’s clear what’s happening with the jam session. So when that Big Bang explodes with the main theme blasting triumphantly it’s hard not to be moved. It was like, Nier Automata levels of “try not to cry” combined with MGS3 levels of plot satisfaction
No it doesn’t. Space game with a super tedious puzzle for its story. The puzzle shouldn’t take as long to complete as it does as knowing where to go completely destroys the need to visit anywhere in the game except two planets. Which destroys replayability for me. The soundtrack is nice I guess but you don’t notice it often. The plot was boring and the puzzle to figure out what to do and where to go is very messy and disorganised and can be confusing for no reason. Ship physics are annoying and floaty even when there’s supposed to be gravity. Lots of useless mechanics that didn’t need to be in the game such as the ghost crystals things. Lots of random annoying glitches which force me to reset. Sometimes I accidentally get launched into space because of how floaty it is and I can’t get back to my ship so I’m forced to reset and sit through the slow ass cutscene. The endings were pretty uninteresting and underwhelming yet the community won’t shut up about how it brought them to tears. I’ve never seen so many people who seemingly have no impulse control and can’t regulate their emotions so any little thing sets them off, that’s the only explanation I have for why people are “brought to tears” over shit I thought was simply cool on first viewing and then didn’t care for any other viewing.
@@zzodysseuszz What does replayability matter? It is a puzzle game and like every other puzzle game you can only solve it once. About the controls being floaty: what do you think space is? Of course everything is floaty, there is nothing holding you down. Most planets have less gravity than the one you spawn in. I know the game might not be for you, but complaining about those core gameplay elements is like complaining that cod has guns.
Personally I hate the ending and don't understand what on earth is remotely compelling about it. But I guess I'm glad other people get so much enjoyment out of the game. I just can't.
@@zzodysseuszz Something not being your taste is totally understandable However, you asserting that the people who were moved emotionally must have poor emotional impulse control is really weird and judgemental. Very embaressing to be so uncomfortable with others having a different experience than you. Hopefully you grow out of whatever you call this
There is another if I remember: go to quantum moon without a suit, in the dark. Since you have no geographic information at that time nor.. time, then, you are lost
I didn't even know there was other endings. When i realized removing the warp core would mean no restarts, i became really careful. I still don't really understand what happens in the canon ending. The universe is dead, so i have no idea what the ending actually is. But the thought of pursuing knowledge despite it costing the only thing keeping you alive is something big
@@mychglou7245 i did, but i don't understand how it happened, went to the signal and had a campfire song with friends and jumped into an orb. is that literal i wonder ?
@@STANNco i think it was the innumerable probability of all creation being collapsed. our friends all represent different parts of the world your perception of them creates. Solanum as the Nomai representative stands in for intelligent life due to "seek out and understanding is the nomai way", chert is wonder and curiosity, Feldspar is adventure and so on. It's basically the quantum Eye collapsing with you as the focus due to being the last living thing capable of perceiving it. It doesn't much matter if it is literal or not, although i dont think it is, as much as the emotional impact. That's jut my take, though.
As I understand it, the eye of the universe is some form of quantum based planetary body or being, predating the universe it's self with the ability to restart the universe using quantum energy, but to do so it needed a sentient lifeform to witness it's creation and lock in one of the endless possibilities (same as quantum material needs to be observed to exist in one form), so when the universe started collapsing on it's self (I'm unsure whether that was the eyes doing, or whether it was happening naturally), it put out a call to attract some form of sentience so that the creation of the new universe could be witnessed. (Spoiler for DLC) The species that inhabit the stranger detected the signal, and assumed it was some form of God, and so drained their homeworld of resources to build a ship to heed it's call. I'm unclear whether after finding it they thought it was the one destroying the universe and so blocked it's signal for that, or where just mad that it didn't offer the salvation they seeked, and so blocked it's signal to stop anyone else being "tricked", but the prisoner clearly disagreed, and periodically let out a burst of signal which is what called the unfortunate clan of Nomai to seek it out. And due to them reactivating the blocker, the Nomai ended up having to go to extreme lengths to try and locate the eye. (DLC spoiler end) The Nomai where a nomadic species, spread across multiple ships, and knew the universe was slowly collapsing. One of the ships heard the call of the eye and so went to investigate. Unfortunately they warped into Dark Bramble, destroying the ship. Those who managed to eject and escape started a new life on the planet, with one aim: to discover the secrets of the eye of the universe. First they needed to find it, as it was hidden. After several failed attempts they came up with a pretty extreme plan. A device that could reverse time using a local black hole, to send a single probe to infinite destinations simultaneously. The issue is that it needed immense power, as in the power of an exploding sun. To achieve this, they made a device that could detonate the sun, and the statue that could record and retain the memories of a single Nomai, so that when the probe found the eye, that Nomai could stop the loop of the sun exploding whilst retaining the information collected. Unfortunately, the device to detonate the sun didn't work. That left them with a need for power, and so in comes the interloper. An asteroid with an unusual but powerful energy reading. The Nomai went to see if they could use it, but found out too late that it contained their demise in the form of ghost matter, which spread over the solar system when the ice containing it melted, wiping them out and ending their quest to find the eye. Skip ahead, and a new species is born, the Hearthians. Saved from the ghost matter by their aquatic beginnings (ghost matter doesn't like water), and the fact it dissipated over time. One in particular is just about to set out on his journey to the stars, when an ancient Nomai failsafe detects the sun is in the process of going supernova and kicks into action to fulfill is original purpose. It fires it's probe and starts recording the memories of this particular Nomai, thus starts the game. At the end, the player witnesses quantum variants pulled from their memories of home and their friends, before witnessing the big bang of the new universe, an act which solidifies the existence of one of the endless quantum possibilities, but which also brings an end to their own universe. A long one I know, but I tried to just focus on the core events. I may have misunderstood a detail here and there, but I looked up the main points from places like the wiki when I finished the DLC, so all the core details should be actuate.
@@MrEsphoenix Hey! Realy cool rewiev there! Only one little problem: "That left them with a need for power, and so in comes the stranger." not the stranger, but the Interloper. Nice work btw.
You get that one game every few years or so that completely fill that void in your heart as you sink in it, when I finished this game that void was back again and oh I must wait, I must wait and count till find the one game again…
when I was jumping into the eye of the universe, the space time collapsed, just like in the ending where you take the camera coming out of the white hole before passing through the black hole (6:53)
I haven't beaten outer wilds yet but I'm excited to get all 6 endings. I'll come back here once I finished. I finally finished and... what a game that was! Truly incredible
So what did we see in the canonical ending? The time loop done and the solar system destroyed along with the Nomai and Hearthians, or something else? Whoever made the music for this game has done humanity a service.
You basically create a new Universe via the power of Music lol Yes, Time Loop and Solar System both die, but then in the Ancient Glade you see all the floating lights (representing Stars) fizzle out and die, like the Nomai said. Then, with your buddies around the Campfire, you help start the Big Bang of the next Universe!
Well all that happens is that now you are the last this alive in the universe, and then the big bang occurs, and 14.3 billion years later, earth begins to form
If you're silly like me, you can also get the game over ending by starting the game for the first time, climbing some cliff rocks in timber hearth and promptly falling off
@@mattparedes9297 however if your at the eye and you watch your sun explode (the closest star) and your alternate self is there you will see the effect start from the star and die
@@mattparedes9297 I was watching my friend stream...he had the self ending active and he went to the eye, but right before jumping into what I'm just gonna call the quantum drainpipe the loop ended and spacetime broke. He reloaded and was already at the eye.
@@gamesdeen3768 I just finished it for the first time and had the same thing happen the loop before it. I seriously thought that the game was just leading up to a joke ending, since the kazoos started and everything. Really confusing and anti-climactical. I didn't know about the self ending (I straight up didn't see the second self when beelining to the core), but since I hopped into the black hole before, that must have been what caused it.
Its so interesting on how the Qsh Twin Project works internally. As soon as the Sun explodes the case opens, the power cords glow, and the memories go into the core functionally sending it back in time.
I like to think that a less intense more quiet version of the music that plays at the Big Bang is what the next travelers will hear as the quantum dignal
Bro, when I saw that angler fish in 42:12 when I was playing the game myself I was so jump scared. And thought it would follow me the entire time and I didn't know it would just disappear like that, so I was paranoid for like 5 min until I assumed he was fully gone. And I even see you getting a little jump scare too XD. Very good game.
as soon as i first got in the ash twin, i didnt want it to end yet, because i knew that the vessel and the coordinates HAD to mean something.. but i had no warp core. as soon as i opened up the core, my brain IMMEDIATELY sprang into fight mode. i got the warp core to the vessel asap and got it first try somehow
did that too ! but was eaten by a damn fish and died right before reaching the last nod. -_- and i felt kinda guilty loading my last save and basically "cheating" to try again and get to the ending
So I ended up breaking spacetime on my first playthrough, but not because I tried doing anything dumb. My scout just glitched out when I shot it into the black hole and clipped out of bounds instead of going through the hole. I tried retrieving it but couldn't so then casually tried removing one of the cores and triggered it. It didn't even occur to be that you could intentionally trigger this, I assumed that this was just a fun in-universe way to explain a glitch!
I reached the normal death ending, dying in Lombre yesterday. My friend showed me about both the "Universal Breakdown" endings, but still managed to reach canonical ending when my friend told me I didn't reached the end. Bro, I cried like a baby. This game is fantastic.
There’s a slightly different version of the true ending depending on wether or not you meet Solanum. Idk if it actually counts as a different ending or not though.
@@Sp_Zed I died before the mask at the start of the game my first playthrough because I jumped into the town geyser to see what would happen and I immediately drowned.
Okay, but what if you meet your other self in the Self Ending, but instead of killing yourself, you just go and finish the game with the Canon Ending? What then? Since you didn't go and jump into the Black Hole.
@@kalamies. Actually, if you observe the Eye before the sun explodes, it basically overrides it because the universe gets reset before the causality could be completely broken. Can’t be no break of cause and effect of there is no effect to begin with.
Did the self-ending/breaking fabric of spacetime sound freaks me out so much no matter how many times I hear it. So uncomfortable, aish. It was also super freaky because I triggered it without realizing what it would do, got to the Eye, then broke reality right before jumping in lol. I was so confused.
omg, i didn't realise you could actually lose after you took out the core, I assumed some bs would save you. I got chased by an angler on my final run to the ship and only just made it into a portal. Holy hell
I remember when I witnessed the negative time interval for the first time, I thought "But what happens if the thing that exits the white hole doesn't enter the black hole?" I wish I had actually thought of that.
Does anything change in the isolation ending if you’re not in your ship or it blows up? EDIT: You last a LOT longer out in space before it goes black (probably 2-3 solid minutes after the sun supernovas), but then you get the same isolation screen at the end.
This is probably one of the best games I have ever played, I enjoyed this masterpiece every second. DLC also played and it’s a bit different the way you okay it but again, I haven’t played such a good DLC in my life, in other games the DLCs are not so massive like this one. I just want to forget about everything played and re play it again…
You have missed one : There is a seventh hidden one that IS the REAL one ! ^^ 14.3 billions years later , if you had thrown the portable probe into the eye, at 54:35 - 54:40 you have seen it passing by into the sky... ^^ And this IS the REAL end of the game as it IS the answer at the question the Nomaï have been searching for in the entire game : " What is the nature of the eye of the Universe " ?
@@peepeemegee427 By throwing the probe into the eye and creating the New Universe, this New Universe will be younger than the probe essentially making the probe an object that is older than the New Universe, if life in this New Universe find it, it would be just as perplexing as the Eye. So the hypothesis goes that the nature of the Eye is that it's an object from a Previous Universe.
i still remember the first time i left with the core and wondering to myself if my idea was correct. then the music started and i was like oh. this is it holy shit
Flying away was an ending?! I remember one loop I wanted to see if I could fly far enough away to evade the supernova. I don’t think I had my ship flying as fast as possible so maybe that’s why I didn’t fly far enough to trigger it. The supernova went off and after a minute or so the memory vision thing started. Hell, I had one loop where I was determined to catch up to the satellite you see launch when you wake up every loop. Finally was able to catch up to it and that’s what I did for 22 minutes lol! Just speed matched and drifted with the satellite thinking it would lead somewhere.
You need to have the ash twin project warp core with you so that the memory vision thing doesnt activate. You dont even have to fly that far away to escape the supernova
No, because of the paradoxical origins of Self, if you end the loop after jumping into the black hole, you break spacetime. If you jump in again, instead of making another one, you just restart that process, creating another Self and starting from the loop at the campfire. So you either continue the cycle of making Selves (where the old "Self" dies I guess), or you break spacetime. Sorry if that doesn't make sense.
@@robinfrenzy it's kind of funny to imagine both selves knowing this and not wanting to die, so they keep exponentially multiplying every loop out of self preservation
my favorite ending is the break the breaking space time ending where you remove the white hole at just the right time and it noclips into the floor, which for some reason kills you at the right angle.
This game rocks my balls. Thanks for putting this together, not sure I am going to finish on my own, let alone six times. Game makes me piss myself in terror.
I got the broken space time ending accidentally and I have no idea how. All I did was go to the vessel in the bramble, put in the coordinates, and when nothing happened because I didn't know you needed the core, I left, but then all of a sudden it said I broke space time?
You probably jumped into the black hole in the Ash Twin Project core at the end of the previous loop. It created a clone and said clone died and because it's the previous you, you shouldn't exist
Isn't it ironic that we can get a "you destroyed the fabric of spacetime" while removing the black/white hole cores, when it's exactly what happends with information in the ash twin project, when we remove the core, but still have the eye of the universe coordinates without probems.
I cried, this game is just magnificent. Cant say more sorry everyone.. ( i cant believe that i finally found a gameplay that i want to forget, replay, forget, replay.. in a loop.... i need a outerwilds 2, the last picture of new universes showed us the DLC characters but i need another universe to explore, other problems, another race like nomais..... please mobius !
Destroying the fabric of spacetime, be it by doubling your scout or doubling yourself, should be counted as the same since the game ends the same way. Though I learned about the quantum moon ending which shows me there's always more to learn on this game, even when you think you know everything
I accidentally triggered the Self Ending the first time I got into the ATP. Ended up dying from something totally unrelated the next loop, and having the screen shatter into "you destroyed the fabric of spacetime" instead of the standard death animation was one of the greatest jumpscares I've ever had in a game. Probably should have thought a bit more about what was going on with that black hole lmao
The player's memories get sent back 22 minutes (via the statue) on Timber Hearth, but the player also gets sent 22 minutes back to the core because they also went into the black hole.
I kinda tilted after my 20th attempt to reach the warp core, two of which were successful, but also not, because both times I got supernoved shortly after So thanks for posting this Maybe I wasn't destined to finish this game, but I'm still glad I experienced it
If you really ponder it, Self-Eye ending (duplicate yourself then go to the Eye) is the one ending where, technically speaking, Solanum _actually_ dies. If you linger at the Eye and let the sun go nova, the paradox happens (Vinny got blueballed by this), erasing the Eye and everything else. If you make it _into_ the Eye in time (reach the Eye Museum), you're "outside of spacetime" and can no longer be killed by it, but _the part of the Eye still in the universe_ still will be, including the Sixth Location Quantum Moon. As long as you _don't_ cause a paradox, the Sixth Location will exist for aleph-zero years (as the Solanum Ending implies), meaning she'll remain there... forever. Honestly not sure if the Self-Eye ending is a _mercy kill_ or not.
I put in the coordinates the moment the sun blew up (not on purpose, I fumbled with the coordinates many times in desperation) and I got the YOU ARE DEAD screen with no credits, just black screen with crickets chirping and fire crackling until I pressed a button and was back at the main screen. Not sure if that was a glitch or a new ending I discovered.
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Fun fact: You can get the "You died" message without ever reaching the warp core. You can jump into the geysers or off the observatory cliff to fall to your death before triggering the memory link with the statue.
That’s what I did when I first started
may or may not have happened to me
without knowing anything about the game I fell off the cliff before the observatory when I started and got the "you died" message, I thought to myself "oh so this is the type of game where death is permenant"
yeah i did that by mistake
I did that lol
I love that you just get the opportunity to just stand and scream with yourself in the Self Ending.
Ah!
Ahh!
Ahhhh!
Ahhhhhhhh!
AHHHH!
I like how you whip out the Advanced Warp Core right in front of Solanum. She's probably like 'What the fuck did you do?"
*proceeds to run the equivalent of 7 marathons in response
@@xEplosivecake and refuses to elaborate any further
@@adrigl3371 *leaves
From the Nomai point of view the Ash Twin project was a waste of time due to the sun station project failing to explode the sun. I think Solanum would be confused rather than angry or worried. From their perspective the advanced warp core is useless.
@@boletarianbread7349 yeah her response would probably be something along the lines of, 'oh yeah, that. i hate to break it to you but it doesn't work. sorry'
I don't know if it counts as an alternative ending but if you trow the cam while you are in the eye of the universe you get to see it in the final cut-scene
It's a "easter eggs"
Notably, if you get the canon ending without ever meeting solanum, she wont be there at the eye and life won't form in the next universe in the 14.8 billion years later cutscene.
@@gamesdeen3768 hmm... is that insinuating that the nomai are the first form of life or that solanum witnessed the birth of life? i mean, we know the nomai were aware of the beginning of life on timber hearth so maybe solanum understood how life begins in a more formative way than the people of timber hearth
@@gamesdeen3768 how do you know it's Canon? Also, how do you know they didn't form in the new universe? I guess because we never met them so couldn't create them?
@@HotdogSosage in the final image after the credits if you don't meet solanum the insect like creatures seen roasting the marshmallows don't appear and the woods are left in the dark. Probably suggesting that life didn't develop in some way. It's left up to the player to decide the ending based on their actions but I would imagine with any sequel game that the canon story would be that you did everything and met everyone to create the best possible ending.
Perhaps Solanum created the seed for life in the ending campfire scene and everyone else added in their own little something, together creating the formula for the next universe.
Made the canonical ending on my first try with the removed warp core. Haven't gotten that level of adrenaline from a game in my life. Simply spectacular with the story and soundtrack combined with my ~20 hours of knowledge on the ingame mechanics
They did OW right!!
On my first try I was so nervous that I've overshot my jetpack and got eaten by an Anglerfish!
Just finished it less than an hour ago… after googling whether you could die for real once you removed the warp core I was really really nervous. After going through all those loops there was no way I was going to let myself die even if I could reset it. Fortunately I had done the journey a few times cause of screwing around so I knew exactly what to do, but I was so afraid the whole time. And wouldn’t you know it, right before I entered the final bramble seed I heard an Anglerfish growling at me, which had never happened before, and my heart basically leapt out of my chest. I panicked a bit but thankfully I made it. Was probably one of the biggest scares I’ve ever had in a video game. The rest of the ending was pretty freaky too, of course…
@@kliao6072 Same!
@@maximusthedude8305 I died multiple times rushing to the Vessel by crashing into Dark Bramble and getting eaten because I thought I only had the length of that modified end song to make it lol. I got the game over screen and credits and it was such a weird feeling after all the loops. The entire ending was just great and full of surprises.
The Eye of the Universe ending of this game is simply amazing, it truly feels like that’s the end of the game.
And I love the vagueness of what the hell just happened, leaves lots up to interpretation.
My personal take on it is when you jump into the eye of the universe, the sheer complexity and confusion gets to you so hard that you try and find a way to make yourself comfortable, so you picture everyone you’ve met on your journey, even including Solanum. And since the law of quantum imaging makes you part of what you can see, it forms that into reality.
Who knows, maybe all of the Nomai in Dark Bramble huddling together to make themselves feel better in times of total confusion was foreshadowing to this very moment.
Maybe I’m wrong about all of this, but even then, one things is clear even with all of the loose ends.
*Fuck those fucking anglerfish.*
I think the final little puzzle in the eye where you reach for the sky around 6 nomai skeletons is the most poetic thing. Each dead nomai piled up higher each time to reach the sky, and then finally they built a shuttle to fetch the mask of solamum.
It made me understand that the eventualities beyond our control don't mean that nothing matters, but rather what we choose to do, including making music with your friends, matters to each other and that's all that matters. The universe doesn't have purpose, it just is. Which makes me feel like it's not up to me to understand it, but to simply exist in it, and to do what makes me happy.
@@luckymankwok Very "shoulders of giants".
The Hearthians' entire space program is built around scavenged Nomai technology, and, while, with the possible exception of Solanum, the Nomai never knew it, it was their project that led to the Eye finally being discovered and the birth of a new universe from the embers of the old. Even their care to avoid disturbing the emerging aquatic fauna of the one habitable planet proved to be key in the end - if they hadn't preserved the ancestral Hearthians, there would have been no conscious life in the system...
Dark bramble was the first planet I visit because I saw the seed back in Timber Hearth. Mf made me panorpoid when visiting other planet for a good while.
@@jasonlu4514 When you see the anglerfish in the museum: "Hello (not) cute little buddy!"
When you see them in Dark Bramble:
Most frustrating thing to hear:
*Unplugs warp core*
*Doo... Dooo dooooo...* _sun explodes_
The first time I made it to the warp core and heard the music I thought that I wouldn’t have enough time to make it back to the mothership so I meditated (thinking I could try again earlier in the loop) but got a game over screen.
@@ahzrukhal3615 Yep, I even tried to train myself beforehead, realizing that taking the wrap core will break the cycle. As I had issues with dark brumble and anglefish. So I tested it like 10 times and everything was perfect, I even learned the navigation by hard so I didn't need beacon to reach the destination. And you know what? First thing I did when I took the core out was missing the ship and flying into open space at full speed.
Goddammit, cj, you had one job
Ah... I see you are a man enticed by distraction as well.
@@Afdog I was so thankful the day someone online pointed out that you could just mark the Vessel in your computer after you've been there once so you don't have to do the beacon stuff for the final run.
And then the DLC came out and added a bit where Slate specifically stops you to tell you about marking things.
@@WigglesMother and it shows it’s location? Lol I didn’t know this was a thing
But it wasn’t complicated to navigate there after 2-3 attempts, it’s actually easier than it looks. But the anglerfish man, it infuriated me
When I finished this game, I let the credits roll completely while listening to the song. Outer Wilds is one of those games in which you never want to finish, that even until the credits you try to keep them with you to avoid closing it.
Then 14.3 billion years go brrt
You don't watch the credits in other games?
you can't skip them anyway.
literally unskippable credits
I like to watch all credits of the game I loved. I don't know why. I like to know the names of the guys who made the games. An I smile at 53:26, seeing a message in French (even if it contains a big
grammatical mistake haha)
34:34 "Of all the lifeforms who will perish in the oncoming death of the universe, we will miss the anglerfish the least" dayum thats harsh
Harsh but still a fact
The canon ending never fails to make me cry. The whole game you're taught to use your time wisely, that you only have 22 minutes until you have to start again, and every loop you're finding new ways to make that time all the more effective, do just a little bit more in the time you have. But it's a constant - you die. The sun goes supernova. You can't stop time, and you can't stop the eruption of the universe. Then you get to the Eye, and there's a sort of feeble hope that maybe now, now that you're in the middle of things, now that you're a part of the universe's very fabric in all its life and death and destruction and rebirth, that maybe now you can stop the cycle of death. But you can't. And it's bittersweet, because you know you can't, you know that the universe that you know will be gone, and is gone, and has been gone for time innumerable, but the end of one day leads to the next. You get to watch as the universe goes on, and will go on, and has gone on, being reborn and remade and recreated a million million million times over. It fucks with me so much I love it.
Now think about how many times your own body and brain do this in a life time... or did you not know your constantly dying and rebuilding untill you reach the bottom of your potential and die forever.
Huh, I didn't know there was an ending for bringing the warp thing to solanum, guess I never thought of doing something that stupid.
implying that doing anything for solanum could be considered stupid. she deserves everything.
I thought it was the optimal way once :( I completely forgot about the coordinatrizes
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Game: adds a singular female character
Simps: my time is now
@@Zarzar22 precious people are precious regardless of gender
‘’Is that yours m’aam?’’
In my gaming career. I've never had such an ending touch my soul. This is now the 3rd time I've witnessed this ending. Being brought to tears each time.
I honestly feel like this may be the closest to witnessing death without actually doing it. It feels so overwhelming, overpowering that you can't and won't understand it. All you know, is that its ending. Truly this time.
I'm really glad to have found this game and achieved what I did. The feeling I got from this game is unlike anything I've experienced.
I just finished the game recently and when I first jumped into the eye. Saw the stars slowly integrate into your home. My mouth dropped, my heart sunk. This was it.
Man what a "game".
Oh and how each npc starts playing/joining in. You hear the whole group one last time. What a finishing touch, considering it's one of the first things you witness in the game
Play Rain World. I found Outer Wilds through attempting to find anything that even compares to what Rain World did for me. If OW impacted you this much I really want to see if Rain World gives you the same insane impact it did for me.
@@pichelguy346 looks interesting. I'll check it out
The game Rime also have a very touching ending.
@@gabgbs21 I have it but yet to play it. I'll keep that in mind.
I can imagine approaching to Solanum with the warp core in your hand, and she is like "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO"
yeah lol I remember the first time I brought it to her I was really disappointed there wasn't any unique dialogue or anything
i brought it to gabbro and was like "😶" as they idly wondered what would happen if the ash twin project was shut down
why would she reply that? would she even know what that is?
@@attenia She might know about the Ash Twin project and realise that was the core of it. As far as I know, majority of the Nomai knew of it, as it was their plan to find the eye.
@@TenebiCenturion but I thought solanum was a nomai who just became an adult by visiting the sixth location. And the ash twin project was also considered a miss as they didn't get to make the sun explode. So even if she new what that is (from school perhaps) for her this core should be next to useless. She might be like "huh you found our warp ore... Nice? I guess...?" but nothing more.
I ended up getting the game over ending by walking directly into the ghost matter on timber hearth. I accidentally broke the loop before it started.
chad behavior
You didn't, the statue just links to another dude
Well, I just drowned in the inside of a geiser (I was being too curious)
You left it up to Gaborro, and you know that mother fucker just let the world run on the loop for ETERNITY.
The best of the bad endings, because it means there is someone else (two someone elses actually) who are looped to be able to try to find the Eye.
I got the isolation ending on my first playthrough, didn't have time to get to dark bramble. If you look on the map, you can see the shockwave dissipate and the scorched remains of the solar system
i discovered the spacetime one myself, kinda just messing about, and i was like - huh, look there are 2scouts now - so now what happens, and i was just about to wonder if i got 2 photographs or would only one of them return and leave the other there - but quickly the space started cracking - and it frightened the crap out of me for a minute - but then was like "that was cooooooool.....!
Destroying the fabric of space time accidently is definetly something beavis and butthead would do
That’s basically the whole game for me lol
1. Get freaked out by something
2. Think, “wow, that’s fun”
I realize now that Outer wilds touched the hearts of many, what a strange effect this game has upon our souls.
There's an additional ending you can get since the release of Echoes of the Eye. If you remove the warp core from the ash twin project and then ride the Stranger until after the sun supernovas, since the stranger leaves the solar system, you get something similar to the isolation ending.
And new variations on the canon ending - there's an additional optional character who could be present at the final campfire.
Wait the stranger flies further away from the sun? I’ve played the game for awhile and didn’t know that.
@@Higher-Ground Yup, this is why you dont die at the end of the loop in the stranger. And this is why the bridge breaks because you turn on the engine of the whole thing to get away from the sun.
What's the stranger? I guess it must be in the DLC
@@niawu742 DLC exclusive location, yeah
42:11 I saw that little shake when you saw the angler fish skeleton😂 I did this ending yesterday for the second time but I forgot what happened and I used my jet pack full speed and ran into it and let out a little “AHHH” my whole body took a screenshot
when i was finishing the game yesterday, i used my jetpack and jesus christ that made my heart skip a few - dont wanna die in the epilogue
I just experiences the ending & when that part happened, I just backed up till I was at the camp. The fish went all the way to me before some flimmering happened and it dissapeared. I do not like those fish.
@@TenebiCenturion I also retreated to the camp, but I never saw it disappear, so I just slowly went to the harmonica (since I've found out you can actually use a tiny tap of movement while in the spaceship and it wouldn't attack, I assumed the same for being on foot XD)
This is the « you die irl of fear » ending 😂 this game is mind blowing
When I saw that, I shrieked and tried to get away, but then thought "No. I must embrace the fear" and ran into it. Really added to the ending
13:41 the best dialogue i ever seen in my life
The true ending is one of the most awe inspiring moments I've ever experienced in video games it was truly incredible
I love that the true ending of the game is based on a real theory, that if whe discover what the universe is it will create another universe more inexplicable than the last one
Really ? What is this theory called ?
I would also like to know the name of this theory.
Isn't that form The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I believe the full quote goes: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened."
The game heavily implies that with the ending. Your scout flies by if you shoot it while in the Eye of the Universe. In game you can find the voyager. I feel that implies this game happens in the next universe to ours, which is kind of hopeful. Also the jump from 2, to 3 to 4 eyes makes sense too.
I think the theory is that if you enter the eye of the universe it will be forced to lock into a single set of possibilities and thus create a new universe as a result of your observation.
*meets self* "ok cool" *DRIVES FULL SPEED INTO THE SUN*
I'm not entirely sure why that breaks timespace though. I guess the idea is that we're the other self from 22 min ago so if past self dies, then future self shouldn't be able to exist, but the thing is, as soon as we wake up and do anything different or have any different memory (which we do thanks to the ash twin project), that removes any possibilities of us becoming our 22 min older self. So either the game over should happen immediately at the start of the loop (which wouldn't be very satisfying or clear), or the thing works on multiverse theory and even dying shouldn't break the space time continuum.
@@Arkayjiya The loop from the forward-time machine in Futurama works the same way. Farnsworth, Fry, and Bender have to 'skip' one universe (or are fated to) to fulfill the conditions of the loop. Farnsworth also has to miss his second shot at Hitler for the same reason.
@@Arkayjiya The self you encounter doesn't mention being from your (remembered) past loop though. They're from your current loop, 22 minutes in the future.
I didn’t know there were more endings than the ‘game over’ from the star exploding and the canonical ending
Same, until i saw that a steam trophy makes you do the one about removing the white hole before the explorer goes through the black one. But the other 3 were unknown for me :o
You standing in front of the camera with Solanum during the increased speed and music in the background at 20:04 lol, idk why but it felt so wholesome XD
It feels like a fever dream
You can also get the game over ending by dieing before even going into the museum. Fall damage, ghost matter, even the fire pit can all be fun ways to speed run life.
You even get an achievement for speedrunning it in 60 seconds
This game is a masterpiece. I laughed. I cried. I felt deep fear. I felt awe. It's a stunning achievement. Believe me I've played games for 30 years.
It'll go down as one of the best games ever made.
I have been playing videos games since late 90s, I am almost 40 now…. Outer wilds ending made me cry like a baby… I am happy I am still alive to experience such a masterpiece.
If you don't meet Solanum at the 6th location, he doesn't appear in the canon ending and the little crickets around a campfire also don't appear.
Solanum is a she
@@Julleo12 lol ok. That's pretty relevant given the subject.
@@emiliomarbanjr it’s pretty relevant. Solanium is always referred by she in all of the writing that involves her and calling them him is just flat wrong
@@thefatherinthecave943 it's not relevant to the point OP was making. What does her gender matter here? It's just a fictional character, she's not gonna get mad for being misgendered lmao
@@sharku8417 idk. But they're not wrong in saying that. Who knows, maybe Solanum being female and life appearing has some implication of her being a "mother of life"
Gender does sometimes matter, especially when theorising things. There's nothing wrong with someone pointing it out
its incredible to see peoples thoughts on this game. this comment box really feel like home. we are brothers just cause we all felt this goosebumps with such a good and deep history that explores the damn meaning of the universe in a very artistic way. im glad that i found this game. if someone havent seen interestellar (movie), i truly recommend it. make me feel the same way and the soundtrack is amazing too. love for yall
Interstellar just happens to be my favorite movie :)
God you people are very VERY dramatic. Probably the most dramatic, exaggerating community I’ve seen in gaming.
@@zzodysseuszz yeah bc of you I read the comment again. Its dramatic but bro, made me happy to remember how much emotion this piece of art can trigger
@@zzodysseuszz girl why are you here. people just come here after completing the game and seeing how good the ending is, and it’s nice to see others who were touched by it. this game means a lot to me, and i don’t think any of us are really exaggerating that much. but being annoyed enough by people praising a game in a video about the game’s ending(s) to leave a comment complaining about it? seems pretty dramatic to me
Before I figured out there was an advanced warp core inside ash twin I thought what you had to do was take an individual black hole and white hole core from the high energy lab and transport them to the vessel. I reevaluated when you couldn’t drop items inside your ship meaning you would have to make two separate trips to the vessel.
an interesting detail is that if you shoot your scout into the eye of the universe and you can't bring it back. at the end with the screen, instead of a white planet, you get the cliff of the eye of the universe and your scout finally makes it out the other side.
i like how in the scene where you were supposed to see a mirror self you just *FAST*
Fun fact: In the Final Eye of the universe, if you throw a scout out of the atmosphere you cannot recover it. And in the post-credits scene it appears flying in the new universe.
So I just barely finished the game my first time just now. Was on the eye of the universe and was launching and recalling my scout over and over low at the horizon to make sure I was going the right way. Then I shoot it too high and lose it forever. Made me sad. Also made me worried that I was gonna get a bad ending once I was meeting up with my fellow hearthians, like was I going to need to use it for one last quantum image trick? Then it was clear I was fine, got the band back together. Watched a universe rebirth, sat in awe at the music in the credits.
And man, I kid you not I did the Leonardo pointing meme the second that scout flew by. That’s me! (Tries not to cry again…)
Never realized the cut on the player character like goddamn 💪
lmfao
The Echoes of the Eye DLC gives us a couple new endings to play around with too.
WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS A THING???!?!??!?!?! Comepletlelyt unexpected thanks I guess Mobius
@@pichelguy346 Yeah they added a lot to the ending
*HALO THEME INTENSIFIES*
@@pichelguy346 you've got to play it, it's a fantastic way to tie things up.
@@pichelguy346 Two new endings (for being in the new locations after the loop ends), and variations on the canon ending (for having an extra character available to remember).
That one with the scouts really surprised me. But I think instead of instantly breaking spacetime, it should instead break when you try to recall them to your gun.
No, it would instantly break the universe. It’s essentially creating duplicate molecules and atoms that both exist and don’t exist in two separate places. The energy from that alone would be more massive than several trillion stars all exploding at once, and it’s energy that violates time causality. You’re basically making an explosion in the future that still effects the past.
@@jesserobertson808 you reckon someone is gonna do that in the future? the formula for a black hole is fairly simple even though it's basically impossible with todays technology
@@staymadbitch6498 this game takes a lot of scientific liberties. The black hole in the game is actually a wormhole, something that hasn’t been observed yet but would be in line with the theory of relativity. However, even if a worm hole does exist, it can’t violate causality. An object entering a wormhole may appear on the other side in the future relative to outside observers, if the wormhole accelerated the object near the speed of light, but it can never travel backwards through time. Because of this, no object could exit a wormhole before entering it, so there’s no need to worry about duplicate/quantum material. Human beings also do not have the technology or material to create a black hole that wouldn’t instantly collapse on itself. Black holes need objects that are as massive as stars (at least 3 times as heavy as the sun) in order to remain stable, earth just doesn’t have enough mass to create one.
The reason it breaks space time is the same with the self ending, you created a copy of an object while simultaneously getting rid of the black hole that spawned it, creating a paradox, the second probe CANT exist but does, the self ending proves that it’s not two probes existing at once that breaks things, just the removal of the cause
@@staymadbitch6498 Eh, if someone did it in the future it would have happened already, so I'm sure we're fine.
Outer Wilds easily has one of the strongest, most well-earned endings of any game, ever. Absolutely mind blowing the first time you see it. It’s so trippy and disorienting at first, but you come to realize the situation by the final campfire and it takes a really melancholy tone. You’re all dead, everything is dead, but it’s clear what’s happening with the jam session. So when that Big Bang explodes with the main theme blasting triumphantly it’s hard not to be moved. It was like, Nier Automata levels of “try not to cry” combined with MGS3 levels of plot satisfaction
No it doesn’t. Space game with a super tedious puzzle for its story. The puzzle shouldn’t take as long to complete as it does as knowing where to go completely destroys the need to visit anywhere in the game except two planets. Which destroys replayability for me. The soundtrack is nice I guess but you don’t notice it often. The plot was boring and the puzzle to figure out what to do and where to go is very messy and disorganised and can be confusing for no reason. Ship physics are annoying and floaty even when there’s supposed to be gravity. Lots of useless mechanics that didn’t need to be in the game such as the ghost crystals things. Lots of random annoying glitches which force me to reset. Sometimes I accidentally get launched into space because of how floaty it is and I can’t get back to my ship so I’m forced to reset and sit through the slow ass cutscene. The endings were pretty uninteresting and underwhelming yet the community won’t shut up about how it brought them to tears. I’ve never seen so many people who seemingly have no impulse control and can’t regulate their emotions so any little thing sets them off, that’s the only explanation I have for why people are “brought to tears” over shit I thought was simply cool on first viewing and then didn’t care for any other viewing.
@@zzodysseuszz What does replayability matter? It is a puzzle game and like every other puzzle game you can only solve it once. About the controls being floaty: what do you think space is? Of course everything is floaty, there is nothing holding you down. Most planets have less gravity than the one you spawn in. I know the game might not be for you, but complaining about those core gameplay elements is like complaining that cod has guns.
Personally I hate the ending and don't understand what on earth is remotely compelling about it. But I guess I'm glad other people get so much enjoyment out of the game. I just can't.
@@zzodysseuszz Something not being your taste is totally understandable
However, you asserting that the people who were moved emotionally must have poor emotional impulse control is really weird and judgemental.
Very embaressing to be so uncomfortable with others having a different experience than you. Hopefully you grow out of whatever you call this
There is another if I remember: go to quantum moon without a suit, in the dark. Since you have no geographic information at that time nor.. time, then, you are lost
I love that he put the Canon ending last so he doesn't spoil the main ending
I just really love the theme after deactivating the loop
Final Voyage is one of my favourite themes.
Self ending, breaking the Space-time were absolutely unbelievably, detailed and thought for 👍🏼❤️
I didn't even know there was other endings. When i realized removing the warp core would mean no restarts, i became really careful. I still don't really understand what happens in the canon ending. The universe is dead, so i have no idea what the ending actually is. But the thought of pursuing knowledge despite it costing the only thing keeping you alive is something big
Didnt you get the "14 billions years later" scene at the end of the cannon end? Where the universe is reborn and life with it?
@@mychglou7245 i did, but i don't understand how it happened, went to the signal and had a campfire song with friends and jumped into an orb. is that literal i wonder ?
@@STANNco i think it was the innumerable probability of all creation being collapsed. our friends all represent different parts of the world your perception of them creates. Solanum as the Nomai representative stands in for intelligent life due to "seek out and understanding is the nomai way", chert is wonder and curiosity, Feldspar is adventure and so on. It's basically the quantum Eye collapsing with you as the focus due to being the last living thing capable of perceiving it. It doesn't much matter if it is literal or not, although i dont think it is, as much as the emotional impact. That's jut my take, though.
As I understand it, the eye of the universe is some form of quantum based planetary body or being, predating the universe it's self with the ability to restart the universe using quantum energy, but to do so it needed a sentient lifeform to witness it's creation and lock in one of the endless possibilities (same as quantum material needs to be observed to exist in one form), so when the universe started collapsing on it's self (I'm unsure whether that was the eyes doing, or whether it was happening naturally), it put out a call to attract some form of sentience so that the creation of the new universe could be witnessed.
(Spoiler for DLC)
The species that inhabit the stranger detected the signal, and assumed it was some form of God, and so drained their homeworld of resources to build a ship to heed it's call. I'm unclear whether after finding it they thought it was the one destroying the universe and so blocked it's signal for that, or where just mad that it didn't offer the salvation they seeked, and so blocked it's signal to stop anyone else being "tricked", but the prisoner clearly disagreed, and periodically let out a burst of signal which is what called the unfortunate clan of Nomai to seek it out. And due to them reactivating the blocker, the Nomai ended up having to go to extreme lengths to try and locate the eye.
(DLC spoiler end)
The Nomai where a nomadic species, spread across multiple ships, and knew the universe was slowly collapsing. One of the ships heard the call of the eye and so went to investigate. Unfortunately they warped into Dark Bramble, destroying the ship. Those who managed to eject and escape started a new life on the planet, with one aim: to discover the secrets of the eye of the universe.
First they needed to find it, as it was hidden. After several failed attempts they came up with a pretty extreme plan. A device that could reverse time using a local black hole, to send a single probe to infinite destinations simultaneously. The issue is that it needed immense power, as in the power of an exploding sun. To achieve this, they made a device that could detonate the sun, and the statue that could record and retain the memories of a single Nomai, so that when the probe found the eye, that Nomai could stop the loop of the sun exploding whilst retaining the information collected. Unfortunately, the device to detonate the sun didn't work. That left them with a need for power, and so in comes the interloper. An asteroid with an unusual but powerful energy reading. The Nomai went to see if they could use it, but found out too late that it contained their demise in the form of ghost matter, which spread over the solar system when the ice containing it melted, wiping them out and ending their quest to find the eye.
Skip ahead, and a new species is born, the Hearthians. Saved from the ghost matter by their aquatic beginnings (ghost matter doesn't like water), and the fact it dissipated over time. One in particular is just about to set out on his journey to the stars, when an ancient Nomai failsafe detects the sun is in the process of going supernova and kicks into action to fulfill is original purpose. It fires it's probe and starts recording the memories of this particular Nomai, thus starts the game.
At the end, the player witnesses quantum variants pulled from their memories of home and their friends, before witnessing the big bang of the new universe, an act which solidifies the existence of one of the endless quantum possibilities, but which also brings an end to their own universe.
A long one I know, but I tried to just focus on the core events. I may have misunderstood a detail here and there, but I looked up the main points from places like the wiki when I finished the DLC, so all the core details should be actuate.
@@MrEsphoenix Hey! Realy cool rewiev there! Only one little problem: "That left them with a need for power, and so in comes the stranger." not the stranger, but the Interloper. Nice work btw.
Holy shit, the space time break is freaky
You can break spacetime in a number of ways involving black holes, and now there's more endings as well.
You get that one game every few years or so that completely fill that void in your heart as you sink in it, when I finished this game that void was back again and oh I must wait, I must wait and count till find the one game again…
play rainworld bro that is ur next game
that game changed me genuinely outer wilds was the game i found trying so very desperately to find another rainworld lol
when I was jumping into the eye of the universe, the space time collapsed, just like in the ending where you take the camera coming out of the white hole before passing through the black hole (6:53)
Did you jump into the ash twin project warp the loop before?
I haven't beaten outer wilds yet but I'm excited to get all 6 endings. I'll come back here once I finished. I finally finished and... what a game that was! Truly incredible
This honestly is, my favorite video game. Words cannot express its beauty.
So what did we see in the canonical ending? The time loop done and the solar system destroyed along with the Nomai and Hearthians, or something else? Whoever made the music for this game has done humanity a service.
You basically create a new Universe via the power of Music lol
Yes, Time Loop and Solar System both die, but then in the Ancient Glade you see all the floating lights (representing Stars) fizzle out and die, like the Nomai said. Then, with your buddies around the Campfire, you help start the Big Bang of the next Universe!
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Well all that happens is that now you are the last this alive in the universe, and then the big bang occurs, and 14.3 billion years later, earth begins to form
The canon ending actually splits into 2 parts, if you dont invite solanum to the band then the intelligent life that makes fire doesnt appear
If you're silly like me, you can also get the game over ending by starting the game for the first time, climbing some cliff rocks in timber hearth and promptly falling off
What if you complete the game while your alternate self is also around?
I did it like that. You just get the canon ending
Oh boi
It reminded me of Vinny's stream
@@mattparedes9297 however if your at the eye and you watch your sun explode (the closest star) and your alternate self is there you will see the effect start from the star and die
@@mattparedes9297 I was watching my friend stream...he had the self ending active and he went to the eye, but right before jumping into what I'm just gonna call the quantum drainpipe the loop ended and spacetime broke. He reloaded and was already at the eye.
@@gamesdeen3768 I just finished it for the first time and had the same thing happen the loop before it. I seriously thought that the game was just leading up to a joke ending, since the kazoos started and everything. Really confusing and anti-climactical. I didn't know about the self ending (I straight up didn't see the second self when beelining to the core), but since I hopped into the black hole before, that must have been what caused it.
Its so interesting on how the Qsh Twin Project works internally. As soon as the Sun explodes the case opens, the power cords glow, and the memories go into the core functionally sending it back in time.
I like to think that a less intense more quiet version of the music that plays at the Big Bang is what the next travelers will hear as the quantum dignal
Bro, when I saw that angler fish in 42:12 when I was playing the game myself I was so jump scared. And thought it would follow me the entire time and I didn't know it would just disappear like that, so I was paranoid for like 5 min until I assumed he was fully gone. And I even see you getting a little jump scare too XD. Very good game.
as soon as i first got in the ash twin, i didnt want it to end yet, because i knew that the vessel and the coordinates HAD to mean something.. but i had no warp core. as soon as i opened up the core, my brain IMMEDIATELY sprang into fight mode. i got the warp core to the vessel asap and got it first try somehow
did that too ! but was eaten by a damn fish and died right before reaching the last nod. -_- and i felt kinda guilty loading my last save and basically "cheating" to try again and get to the ending
So I ended up breaking spacetime on my first playthrough, but not because I tried doing anything dumb. My scout just glitched out when I shot it into the black hole and clipped out of bounds instead of going through the hole. I tried retrieving it but couldn't so then casually tried removing one of the cores and triggered it. It didn't even occur to be that you could intentionally trigger this, I assumed that this was just a fun in-universe way to explain a glitch!
I reached the normal death ending, dying in Lombre yesterday.
My friend showed me about both the "Universal Breakdown" endings, but still managed to reach canonical ending when my friend told me I didn't reached the end.
Bro, I cried like a baby. This game is fantastic.
There’s a slightly different version of the true ending depending on wether or not you meet Solanum. Idk if it actually counts as a different ending or not though.
"Hey, Solanum, check it out."
Isn't dieing before connecting to the statue its own ending? That's the only way to get the credits (including the music) play faster, no?
It's possible, you jump in the campfire you wake in front of
@@Sp_Zed I died before the mask at the start of the game my first playthrough because I jumped into the town geyser to see what would happen and I immediately drowned.
Thats the same as the first ending in the video
Such a good game
Had to see the ending on RUclips because that last part with the fucking monsters was FUCKING ME UP
unironically scarier than any horror game i've ever played
FYI there's a mod to disable the anglerfish, so you can still go for the ending even if dark bramble is too scary normally
Okay, but what if you meet your other self in the Self Ending, but instead of killing yourself, you just go and finish the game with the Canon Ending? What then? Since you didn't go and jump into the Black Hole.
Still destroys space time because the previous clone died to the supernova therefore you shouldn't exist because you from the past died.
@@kalamies. Actually, if you observe the Eye before the sun explodes, it basically overrides it because the universe gets reset before the causality could be completely broken.
Can’t be no break of cause and effect of there is no effect to begin with.
Did the self-ending/breaking fabric of spacetime sound freaks me out so much no matter how many times I hear it. So uncomfortable, aish.
It was also super freaky because I triggered it without realizing what it would do, got to the Eye, then broke reality right before jumping in lol. I was so confused.
How cool would it be if you could place the advance warp core in the stone next to Solanum and trigger new dialogs about it.
i know right, i was so sad when she wasn’t like “wait what the fuck”
omg, i didn't realise you could actually lose after you took out the core, I assumed some bs would save you. I got chased by an angler on my final run to the ship and only just made it into a portal. Holy hell
My palms were indeed sweaty gliding through anglerfish land with the warp core pulled out
My heart was racing i had to pause for a min to collect myself
I remember when I witnessed the negative time interval for the first time, I thought "But what happens if the thing that exits the white hole doesn't enter the black hole?" I wish I had actually thought of that.
Does anything change in the isolation ending if you’re not in your ship or it blows up?
EDIT: You last a LOT longer out in space before it goes black (probably 2-3 solid minutes after the sun supernovas), but then you get the same isolation screen at the end.
If you're still in the Ship when the Isolation Ending happens and are piloting it, you get an Achievement. But otherwise, nothing
This is probably one of the best games I have ever played, I enjoyed this masterpiece every second. DLC also played and it’s a bit different the way you okay it but again, I haven’t played such a good DLC in my life, in other games the DLCs are not so massive like this one. I just want to forget about everything played and re play it again…
You have missed one : There is a seventh hidden one that IS the REAL one ! ^^
14.3 billions years later , if you had thrown the portable probe into the eye, at 54:35 - 54:40 you have seen it passing by into the sky... ^^
And this IS the REAL end of the game as it IS the answer at the question the Nomaï have been searching for in the entire game : " What is the nature of the eye of the Universe " ?
I consider it to be more of a bonus to the canon ending, not a new ending entirely
How does that answer their question tho? What is the nature of the Eye?
@@peepeemegee427 By throwing the probe into the eye and creating the New Universe, this New Universe will be younger than the probe essentially making the probe an object that is older than the New Universe, if life in this New Universe find it, it would be just as perplexing as the Eye. So the hypothesis goes that the nature of the Eye is that it's an object from a Previous Universe.
@@Ali-cya this one mindfucked me
@@Ali-cya That makes a lot of sense. No wonder the multiple eyes theory
Hearthian: *creates 2 scout probes*
Also hearthian: "Huh... weir... *space and time shit themselves into non-existence
You missed that you can also get the "Game Over" ending by dying before you meet the mask at the start of the game
i still remember the first time i left with the core and wondering to myself if my idea was correct. then the music started and i was like oh. this is it holy shit
You know, I just realized the nomai had multiple massive blindspots in their search for the eye.
It seems more like they just died right before the set out to find it.
I got the "self ending" on my run and it felt like a reward...
Flying away was an ending?! I remember one loop I wanted to see if I could fly far enough away to evade the supernova. I don’t think I had my ship flying as fast as possible so maybe that’s why I didn’t fly far enough to trigger it. The supernova went off and after a minute or so the memory vision thing started. Hell, I had one loop where I was determined to catch up to the satellite you see launch when you wake up every loop. Finally was able to catch up to it and that’s what I did for 22 minutes lol! Just speed matched and drifted with the satellite thinking it would lead somewhere.
You need to have the ash twin project warp core with you so that the memory vision thing doesnt activate. You dont even have to fly that far away to escape the supernova
@@tomtomas4457 ah I see, that’s why then. This was early in my playthrough when I did it lol
The quantum moon ending is practically you giving Solanum the most technologically advanced boquet of flowers ever and thats fact
"This song is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it."
Is these things that I love this masterpiece
If I ever met myself. We'd both do sickest of handshakes.
you forgot some ending
unplug the generator and go away from the system, then you have another endin
He got it, he just forgot the timer for space time ending
@@funeraltwo268 ho thanks man, because this and the one on the moon are my favorite
@@clementparayre2088 oh whoops lemme fix that
wdym by generator?
where is it located?
@@ManicPaws the Ash twin project one
In the self ending, can you jump into the blackhole again and meet 2 more of you? Or is that not possible
No, because of the paradoxical origins of Self, if you end the loop after jumping into the black hole, you break spacetime. If you jump in again, instead of making another one, you just restart that process, creating another Self and starting from the loop at the campfire. So you either continue the cycle of making Selves (where the old "Self" dies I guess), or you break spacetime. Sorry if that doesn't make sense.
@@leviklopfenstein8158 Yeah that makes sense. I suppose the 2nd self would have to jump into the blackhole as well to get that result.
@@robinfrenzy it's kind of funny to imagine both selves knowing this and not wanting to die, so they keep exponentially multiplying every loop out of self preservation
first time: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
987934 After loop: Let's play a game of guess where the quantum moon is!
@@すっとんきょー your comment deserves so much more
my favorite ending is the break the breaking space time ending where you remove the white hole at just the right time and it noclips into the floor, which for some reason kills you at the right angle.
This game rocks my balls. Thanks for putting this together, not sure I am going to finish on my own, let alone six times. Game makes me piss myself in terror.
luv the pfp bro
I got the broken space time ending accidentally and I have no idea how. All I did was go to the vessel in the bramble, put in the coordinates, and when nothing happened because I didn't know you needed the core, I left, but then all of a sudden it said I broke space time?
You probably jumped into the black hole in the Ash Twin Project core at the end of the previous loop. It created a clone and said clone died and because it's the previous you, you shouldn't exist
Isn't it ironic that we can get a "you destroyed the fabric of spacetime" while removing the black/white hole cores, when it's exactly what happends with information in the ash twin project, when we remove the core, but still have the eye of the universe coordinates without probems.
I like how you can terrify yourself
I cried, this game is just magnificent.
Cant say more sorry everyone..
( i cant believe that i finally found a gameplay that i want to forget, replay, forget, replay.. in a loop.... i need a outerwilds 2, the last picture of new universes showed us the DLC characters but i need another universe to explore, other problems, another race like nomais..... please mobius !
Ok what happens if : you create a clone by jumping in the black hole, but on the next loop you end the game the way it's supposed to end ?
Ιf Majora's mask was a huge experience for me I can't even imagine what this game is to people
Destroying the fabric of spacetime, be it by doubling your scout or doubling yourself, should be counted as the same since the game ends the same way.
Though I learned about the quantum moon ending which shows me there's always more to learn on this game, even when you think you know everything
if you stray from the path by when you have reached the eye, and just wander around in the lightning strikes you can get another ending.
The best one is the breaking space time ending because of the awesome animation that triggers when it happens
seems like the self ending implies doing anything but going back into the black hole causes destruction of space time...
I accidentally triggered the Self Ending the first time I got into the ATP. Ended up dying from something totally unrelated the next loop, and having the screen shatter into "you destroyed the fabric of spacetime" instead of the standard death animation was one of the greatest jumpscares I've ever had in a game.
Probably should have thought a bit more about what was going on with that black hole lmao
I don't understand the self ending. And also HOW the black hole time gap works with it. Can someone explain ?
The player's memories get sent back 22 minutes (via the statue) on Timber Hearth, but the player also gets sent 22 minutes back to the core because they also went into the black hole.
I kinda tilted after my 20th attempt to reach the warp core, two of which were successful, but also not, because both times I got supernoved shortly after
So thanks for posting this
Maybe I wasn't destined to finish this game, but I'm still glad I experienced it
If you really ponder it, Self-Eye ending (duplicate yourself then go to the Eye) is the one ending where, technically speaking, Solanum _actually_ dies. If you linger at the Eye and let the sun go nova, the paradox happens (Vinny got blueballed by this), erasing the Eye and everything else. If you make it _into_ the Eye in time (reach the Eye Museum), you're "outside of spacetime" and can no longer be killed by it, but _the part of the Eye still in the universe_ still will be, including the Sixth Location Quantum Moon. As long as you _don't_ cause a paradox, the Sixth Location will exist for aleph-zero years (as the Solanum Ending implies), meaning she'll remain there... forever.
Honestly not sure if the Self-Eye ending is a _mercy kill_ or not.
I put in the coordinates the moment the sun blew up (not on purpose, I fumbled with the coordinates many times in desperation) and I got the YOU ARE DEAD screen with no credits, just black screen with crickets chirping and fire crackling until I pressed a button and was back at the main screen. Not sure if that was a glitch or a new ending I discovered.