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The Outer Worlds 2 Metacritic score matches the impressive reviews for the original 2019 RPG, with the two tied as Obsidian's fifth-best games

Tied with South Park, that is

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2 is everything I wanted in a sequel — and it's learned one big lesson from Baldur's Gate 3

If you're going to learn from a game, Baldur's Gate 3 is a good one, and The Outer Worlds 2 learns a valuable lesson in companionship.

Tom’s Guide

The Outer Worlds 2 review – Obsidian at its best since New Vegas

Obsidian is back, baby.

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'The Outer Worlds 2' Review: Possibly The Best RPG Yet From One Of The Masters Of The Genre

'The Outer Worlds 2' is a superb satirical sci-fi RPG that smartly uses the decades of experience Obsidian Entertainment has gathered crafting RPGs.

Inverse

The Outer Worlds 2 review

A great RPG that surpasses its predecessor.

PC Gamer

The Outer Worlds 2 is more of a great thing, with Obsidian doubling down on an RPG setup that worked wonders — now with better combat

The Outer Worlds 2 delivers more of the same space western RPG formula that worked the first time, now with better combat, exploration, and a darker tone.

Windows Central

The Outer Worlds 2 review: a bolder, stranger, smarter sequel

An Art Deco world that finally feels alive, even when it’s falling apart.

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The Outer Worlds 2 review: "The Fallout New Vegas creators have crafted a masterful space age RPG that's willing to play game master to my silliest decisions"

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Is The Outer Worlds 2 on Xbox Game Pass? Microsoft's biggest Xbox RPG of the year is finally almost here — here's what we know

Obsidian Entertainment is about to launch its third 2025 Xbox RPG with The Outer Worlds 2, but is it available on Xbox Game Pass?

Windows Central

Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"

"We wanted to make sure that the companions felt more realistic with how they dealt with the player"

GamesRadar

All of The Outer Worlds 2 companions and how to recruit each

Collect your crew of reprobates from across Arcadia.

PC Gamer

Outer Worlds 2 is giving away a Moon Man plush — and it’s absurdly adorable

Obsidian is celebrating the upcoming launch of The Outer Worlds 2 with a limited-time sweepstakes giving fans the chance to win a massive 3ft Moon Man Couch-Panion plush. This promo runs from October 15, 2025 up until November 16, 2025.

Windows Central

The Outer Worlds 2 game director campaigned to have Fallout: New Vegas-style factions that tie into the RPG's main story

The devs also "want you to have to deal with the fallout from your choices"

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2 wasn't going to have a third-person view until Obsidian saw the demand from fans: "We actually didn't start doing it until two years ago"

Obsidian brought in another studio to make sure The Outer Worlds 2 had the feature

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The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2

Vile.

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"

Game director Brandon Adler wants to "really get back to those sensibilities of a really strong RPG"

Windows Central

The Outer Worlds 2 directors tapped Ninja Theory and other Xbox studios to shape future games

The Outer Worlds 2 game directors discussed how they were encouraged to talk with other Xbox studios like Ninja Theory for feedback for future games.

PC Gamer

Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says he's 'Never really felt secure in a job' in 26 years, and it's worse than ever now

"That’s actually pretty messed up."

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It's literally impossible to pick the 'real' murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: 'You're not a detective, you're a f***ing artist'

But it was obviously Ferenc.

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2's first open biome is "pretty big and meaty" because Obsidian "wanted to see how far we could push things," but the RPGs other areas "are not much smaller"

Thorough explorers can expect to spend "a dozen-plus hours" in the area

GamesRadar

Just in time for Halloween, Grounded 2 puts its arachnophobia mode to the test with an update starring a giant tarantula and teases the one thing that could be scarier than that: candy corn

Can't get enough of those "new spooky ambiances"

GamesRadar

Big Preview: The Outer Worlds 2 – Exclusive access and hands-on with the quirky sci-fi RPG

Going hands-on with The Outer Worlds 2 and chatting with Obsidian Entertainment, we check in on this long-awaited spacey RPG sequel

PC Gamer

Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

GamesRadar

As The Outer Worlds 2 embraces "crunchy" role-playing, its directors say people are "more open" to deeper RPGs after Baldur's Gate 3: "It's good to bring that stuff to the forefront again"

Big Preview | Obsidian is making the game it originally wanted The Outer Worlds to be, and returning to the studio's roots while doing it

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Destiny 2 is a mess right now but it's still one of the best-feeling shooters ever, so I'm encouraged to hear it was a "guiding light" for The Outer Worlds 2 gunplay

If you're gonna follow gunplay, follow Bungie's

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