The Outer Worlds: Base Game | Free on Epic Game

to clarify, this is the Corporate Hellscape in Space rpg "Outer WORLDS", not the comfy mystery game (with existential dread elements) "Outer WILDS".

Man. Such a shame those games came out at the same time with effectively the same name
- Outer Wilds is probably older. There was a prototype in 2012 for the guy's master's thesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AIOT24MWk
  
  And I remember playing a beta version 3 years before release or so with a few less planets and much more primitive graphics.
Haven't tried worlds yet but wilds is a masterpiece that blew my mind and ruined other games for me. Might be my top game of all time.
- I just started (Outer Wilds) the other day. Not sure what I'm doing, lol. I died the first three times by not wearing a suit. I bought it purely on the recommendation on another Lemming (Lemmy user?) and they said just get into it and don't look into anything else. Looking forward to just trying things on my next run.
- Thx for the hint, it's on Steam x-mas sale btw., including the DLC
Yep, i also mistake them the first time.
It also certainly doesn't help me remembering which is which when in Outer WILDS you explore different worlds and in Outer WORLDS the tutorial area is kind of an overgrown wilds in which you explore very few worlds. When I have to talk about either one of them I just say "You know, the one with the crazy gravity physics and planets" or "You know, the one that's basically just Firefly the video game."
This is the reason I own it already
It's even more confusing talking about the game because you can fly your ship into the sun in both.
Outer Wilds is trash
- Outer wilds is very well regarded. I’ve only ever heard good things about it. I got it on sale recently and planning on checking it out soon.

I'd like to thank all the teenagers who used their mom's credit cards to buy Fortnite skins so I can enjoy free GTA V, Control, Star Wars Battlefront, and now this game.

Is the DLC included or not? The title says it's the Spacer's Choice Edition but it's also telling me the Spacer's Choice Edition upgrade is $10

Same experience here. I've already owned the base game, but none of the DLC. It let me accept Spacer's Choice, which is literally just another store entry for the base game, but you can buy the upgrade for 10$ instead of 17$.

Update: I've done some research. Apparently this version of the game is like a third-party remaster done by a different company, hence why it's a different entry in the store
Upgrade is for people who own the old version only. Spacers Choice Edition is the entire game, DLC and all.
My receipt, screen I selected for the game, and everything I see and can tell says it's the spacers choice edition, which is the edition that includes the DLC.

I think the giveaway just doesn't include the $9.99 dlc to upgrade the base game if you already have it to the spacers choice edition. In other words, if you have the base game only, get this giveaway and you'll have the dlc for free via spacers choice edition.
EDIT - Close to the add button Is written [Base game] and even after adding it to my library i can still see the 9$ dlc option in the menu. Either way is not too clear so I'll let the (base game) in the title.
- Spacers Choice is like a Game of the Year Edition. It has the whole game with both DLC.
- It does include the DLC.
- I double checked and it seems to most definitely be the spacers choice edition. Nothing I have says it's the base edition.
- "Spacer's Choice" is the remaster that includes all the previous DLC.
  
  This version was done by a third party and was buggy on launch and for a while. It is supposedly fixed as of June.
- Lmao it's a rerun of last year.
- Oh well, at least I now have the base game.
- Bloody hell.
- I four different times going in it's not the worst part it's the second time they touched any of it cuz I'm like all right we got them in now we got to go further it's like body horror feelings so there's some wriggling in you and then all the sudden it's like a Delta lightning through your whole body
Spacer's choice edition is the full game remastered edition that is currently on giveaway.

If you owned the base game+DLCs, you get this edition for USD 9.99 when it's not on giveaway.
As far as I remember from the DF review, the spacer's edition "remaster" isn't any good. You're better off playing the original game.

Though maybe only the spacer's choice edition is free because no one bought it.

Edited: There was a recent patch this year. Which supposedly has fixed the technical problems that made Spacer's Choice unplayably bad. I still can not recommend it because it was broken when I tried to play it pre-patch, but it has supposedly been fixed. Edited to slightly soften the tone against it.

A lot of comments in this thread are confused about what "Spacer's Choice" means. This is the "remastered" version of the game that was not done by Obsidian. It is a Game Of The Year style pack that includes all the DLC. The upgrade flowchart picture on the storefront page is needlessly confusing, ignore it. As of May this year, this version was very buggy and unoptimized. Texture pop-ins and laggy framerates are widely reported. For me personally I couldn't even get it to run at all.

This was a Humble Choice game not too long ago, and it ran great for me if this helps.
According to this comment: https://www.gog.com/forum/the_outer_worlds/spacers_choice_edition_has_very_poor_performance_horrible_optimization/post4

They fixed it. Is that true?
- I guess I'm out of the loop. I tried playing it in May of this year, and it finally got patched in June.

Would recommend trying it out, not the best game in the world but it's solid enough

And still far better than Starfield.
- That was implied with the "would recommend trying it"
One of the okayest games ever made

The price is right. This is the only game I ever refunded on steam. It is way more linear than they made it out to be.

still better than starfield.

looking forward to whatever obsidian does next
- Well they made Grounded which is pretty awesome

Great, funny RPG that was ignored because it launched near the disruptive Disco Elysium.

Also triggers ancaps, even though you can join the company's side.

It was not ignored because of Disco Elysium. In fact I had never even heard of DE myself until like last year.

The reason it was "ignored" (it really wasn't though) is that it was a pretty mid game.

ETA: it was also hyped up to be the "Bethesda Killer." IGN was literally posting articles and videos saying things like "Bethesda should probably start looking for a new job."
- Ironically I heard more good things about Outer Worlds than from Starfield.
I remember this game being very hyped before release. When it released it was a very poorly optimized game on PC, don't know about consoles.

I played it for a good 10 hours, hoping it would get good. It never did, so I dropped it. I still find fallout 3 and new vegas more fun than this.
- The base version worked great for me and I have a pretty bad CPU, Ryzen 3200G, can't say about this remaster.
  
  New Vegas is better but fallout 3 is still the only one I find no joy in and hate every character.

Solid linear fun RPG 🦜

Shows me $29.99 now

It was only available for free on 2023-12-25.
- I was tried claiming it on the day it was free, but I'm assuming that since the website kept trying to translate from another language I think the time zones were off from mine and the sale ended early from my perspective.

Thanks!

If you have heard bad things about this edition performance wise, it's in the past. Played it around 1 or 2 months ago and had no issues whatsoever.

Game itself is quite good. Liked Fallout better, but had fun with this one as well. Combat might get a bit dull after a while, but everything else was alright. Main story was solid, but don't expect anything groundbreaking, same goes for side missions and DLCs. World / atmosphere was really cool, companions and dialog options were a lot of fun. You can take the usual evil/good path and slightly change the world (available missions) around you.

Don't need anything from Epic Game Store. But thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for your opinion.