Let's Play Outer Wilds, for the First Time 

This game was Wild I hope everyone enjoys the edited playthrough of the entire game. I've wanted to play it for years, and I had a wonderful time with it. Thanks too to everyone who suggested this game in the suggestions box on my Discord server, and for bearing with me to get round to it haha. It's the single most requested game I've been asked to play this year. Doing my best to stay true to my word and play everyone's favourite game this year :)

“Is there fall damage in this game?” is possibly the funniest way to trip into the time loop mechanic

Outer Wilds fans rejoicing at being able to vicariously replay the game through yet another RU-vidr.

“You have become the most important thing that has ever existed. Succeed, and everything is reborn. Fail, and there is nothing after the dark. Get in your ship. Godspeed, and look out for the anglers. You have a universe to put to rest, and it simply will not wait for you any longer.” - Some guy in the chat of this stream

Friendly reminder in this game, when you jump, the world moves not you

Rt not reading the prompts in the corners while flying directly into the side of a planet at full speed is very on brand

local man fails to realize that you have to slow down when you approach things, instead of continuing to accelerate towards them as you worry about crashing into them

this dude really found the secret "easter egg" ending, where you see yourself and create a paradox, entirely on accident. He literally found the ash twin project by accident, wtf.

For an explanation of why he broke space time there, it's because he went back in time by jumping in the black hole, but in the next cycle created a paradox by not jumping in the black hole again, creating a version of himself that came from nothing. Also interesting little bit about the ending. You can completely skip going to the quantum moon, but if you don't meet Solanum, she isn't there when you go to the eye, and the final scene of the new planet 14 billion years later doesn't have any new lifeforms on it. The implication seems to be that if the protagonist doesn't encounter a living Nomai, they're unable to comprehend alien life and so when they're collapsing all possibilities into one where a new universe is birthed, they can't guide it to a possibility in which life occurs. I believe going through the dlc and then doing the ending also changes it slightly so there's a second, distinct group of lifeforms on another part of the planet too.

i feel like rt making a bad landing, getting out of the ship, then getting annoyed at the siren and running back in only to read "reactor damaged" and getting blown up would be hilarious as an animation just saaying animators

There's another secret ending that Dan missed while playing around wth the white/black hole travel experiment. The probe launched into the black hole exits the white hole a fraction of a second beforehand, so for a brief moment, there are two instances of the same object existing at the same time. If you close the holes in that moment when two instances of the probe exist, you create a time paradox which causes the universe to end.

Something I love about this game is that almost everyone starts from the same place of “The Nomai were and scientists who messed up and doomed us all” bu by the end of the game you realise that wasn’t true at all, the Nomai were extremely intelligent and kind people whose plan absolutely would have worked and met a tragic end with the current situation having nothing to do with them

I stopped watching this after 15 minutes, bought the game, played it for 3 days straight and finished it. It was absolutely worth it. Now I can continue watching the video again.

This was the weirdest progression route I've seen anyone take with this game. Man accidentally found the coordinates, the sun station and the Ash Twin core before he even understood most things, never visited several locations and at least from how this was edited, seems to have skipped over any mentions of the stars exploding or the writings inside the Vessel. And how many loops was it before he even saw the sun explode?! Still seems he covered most of the salient points, and probably got there quicker than most.

It's so beautiful that Ash edited the video so that the first supernova RT sees is at the 22 minute mark ;~;

Hearing Dan screaming "EASY DOES IT!" as he's barreling towards a planet at a thousand miles per hour is something i won't forget easily

The lack of control over the world is my favorite. This game having everything that you see and do just being at bay of the physics and loop is so damn unique. The islands just getting jettisoned to space, the twins exchanging sand, the scout over Timber hearth (you can collide with it and alter its trajectory) all gives a sense of life and how little the Hearthians really know of the system they live in.

I’ve never played this game before, but that kazoo-ed credits theme is probably the one of the funniest “bad ending” result I’ve ever seen

The saddest thing about this game is knowing you can never truly replay it as a new experience. Glad you got to enjoy it RT, this is one of the best games of our time!

I really think RT should play Outer Wilds, such a good game!

For anyone wondering how RT managed to literally break spacetime: You may recall that in the previous loop, he entered a blackhole as the world ends. That copy (the "Self" NPC he found in the following loop) survived by going back in time, and the two copies, the protagonist and "Self", are now both part of the universe. If the protagonist does not repeat the process - jump into the blackhole again as the world ends - to become "Self" in the next loop, "Self" will exist in the time loop without a point of origin and should not exist, causing spacetime to shatter. Basically, RT created a time loop paradox without even knowing what he's doing.

There's nothing more beautiful than watching someone play Outer Wilds. Going from wildly flailing to slowly keying into the universe's secrets, and the fact that everyone discovers and figures out problems in a different way than others. Especially finding the coordinates before the cannon... I mean what!? how!?

this game is devastatingly heart breaking. one of my absolute favourites. cant wait to see how this turns out!

One of my favorite things to do in this game is to sit and watch the night sky. Floating around in silence watching each star and galaxy snuff out. The transition from what was once a full sky turn to black is gracfully terrifying. Glad you got to experience this beautiful yet existentially horrifying game.

I still find it crazy that RT found both the Vessel and the Eye's coordinates BEFORE he even talked to Gabro

The Zero G cave is actually pretty cool, it's zero g because it's in the centre of the planet

Man I can't even begin to imagine how awful solanum's situation must be. Imagine only being "alive" when you're being observed

This game is something else... The music, the art style, the story, the message behind is all, its all just perfect. Really recommend playing it blind and without any guide. This is something you can only experience once.

7:56 dan is having the air sucked out of his lungs by the depths of space BUT atleast he got the landing gear repaired

(Spoilers) I love how the game misleads you into thinking the sun station caused the supernova and all you have to do is turn it off because the reveal is awesome whenever I see someone else find out.

For a while there I was wondering if RT was going to get through the whole game not knowing that the sun explodes because he kept killing himself too quickly.

The ending of this game always brings me to tears. Also the core message and theme, that the pursuit of a goal is meaningful in and of itself, and that even if you don't achieve it, what's important is you tried... The most important step to take is always the next one.

To anybody who just started watching this video and has never heard of outer wilds before- I highly, highly recommend that you play the game for yourself before watching this video. Outer wilds is a masterpiece of a game that can only truly be experienced firsthand, and watching any playthrough of the game will completely ruin the game for you. I would hate for anybody to be robbed of the amazing experience that this game offers. Maybe watch the first few minutes of this video and, if the game seems interesting or fun to you, go buy it NOW. You won’t regret it.

I've never seen any playthrough this game, i played it myself about a year ago, and it's something really intimate, it's your experience. However, the mental gymnastics of RT was kinda the same from me. Trying to piece everything together, landing similar conclusions at the lack of information. Love it, this game is just too good!!

i remember my first experience with this game, after the supernova i tried to get in my ship to get out of the solar system, and i shit you not the sun started to move towards my position on the map. it was probably a glitch, but it scared the shit out of me enough to not leave the map

Fun fact: If you wait long enough on the title screen (Really, Really long), you'll see the letters start to drift apart. You'd have to be either really out there or very wild to see it on accident though

the fact that rt accidentally got the secret where you create a clone of yourself is just so incredible

Came for the *You have 22 minutes until the solar system is destroyed* Stayed for the cool art, cool aspect of the game, and cuz RT made a video on it. I'm gonna lose an hour and a half for this cool game

I'm so happy I get to relive my original journey through the eyes of a new explorer. I'm amazed how utterly baffled you began, only actually get a pretty serious grip on things at the end. And an explanation for the "Kazoo Ending" - basically thanks to wonky, large-scale quantum shenanigans, there's a few ways to utterly destroy reality. You can primarily do this in the High Energy Lab: by carefully ripping out one of the miniature warp cores just as the probe is being duplicated, you can close off the time portals, and thus have two probes... by creating a time paradox. An object obviously can't be in two places at the same time, so RIP universe. What you did here, chum, is by diving into the black hole at the heart of the Ash Twin Project... you basically used the black hole/white hole the memory data is sent through and *physically* sent yourself back in time, while your memories *also* got uploaded to your past self. (Gabbro remarks on this: you actually do die every time, and your memories are just sent to a version of you in the past.) But because you leapt through - behold, there's now two of you! But the universe doesn't implode - why? Well, with some discussion with your clone (after you both stop screaming), you both figure that because the *possibility* of jumping back through that Ash Twin Project wormhole exists, the universe is fine with creating a temporal duplicate of you. The *moment* that possibility no longer exists - say, by you dying - the universe encounters a timeline error, and expires. Yep, it gets pretty nerdy in this game! A nice bonus, by the way: if you listen closely, at the end of the kazoo solo, you can hear some people laughing and demanding that this *must* be put to use somewhere in the game. ... Anyway, I really, REALLY hope you come back to investigate that "Map Offline" satellite. There's even more to this amazing little solar system, and I just gotta' see you fly at high speeds into what comes next.

I love how approaching at 60+ meters per second is "easy does it" for this playstyle.

It's the miracle of video games. Just look at how romantic the game presents the beauty of science of the universe and the human spirit of exploring. Can't even fully express my compliment

Holy shit man, I literally thought to myself today "it would be cool if RT would play this game". You are the best, keep on Rumbling and Tumbling

"lets go to dark bramble next" couple minutes later by the satellite "actual horror game right now" oh buddy you had no idea :)

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it was thoroughly enjoyable to see you be so wrong for so long! And it's always fun to watch someone new figure out real[ish] spaceflight physics.

I started playing it a few weeks back myself, and after a while I was reminded of just how TERRIFIED I am of space. Walking around the black hole was one of the more stressful things I had to do, what made it worse was the fact that the surface was falling apart as I was going which ended with me being stranded. I nearly had a heart attack when I decided to jump in xD

Well deserved GOTY 2019! Glad you finally played it! BUT: You've gotta play the DLC aswell, it's almost as long as the original game and it's just as awesome! :) And it's quite different in terms of storytelling and gameplay!

I'm so happy you've played this, absolutely my favorite game of the 2010s! If you get the urge to come back, the DLC is excellent too.

Im addicted to Outer Wilds playthroughs. I always watch them, even tho I know the game inside out and it takes a lot of time. I just love how different this game is to everyone. Each person playing this can have a really different run, discovering things at various speed and order

OH GOD DAMNIT RT's finally playing this game so now I HAVE to play in order to watch this. Thanks a bunch for subjecting me to what is definitely going to be an immensely enjoyable experience. >:(

I think my favorite quote from this game is "Science compels us to explode the sun!" Such a metal saying.

I think I'm starting to understand why RT doesn't have a driver's license.

So glad that more people are finally playing this masterpiece. Now do the DLC that turns it into a horror game.

this was the most fun i've ever had watching a stream since miitopia, i had so much fun chatting in the discord and having poor sods try and explain to me quantum physics as my brain fried

It is kinda sad to me how he didn't get to know all the other characters that well. How will he ever know that Chert goes into a mental crisis over the supernovas? It's the only minus for me in this let's play. ;-;

It is geuniely remarkable ho long RT took to even FIND OUT the sun was exploding

This is honestly the perfect dream video I didn't know I wanted. Rt brings so much to these heavier games and it has plenty of room for goofs with the wacky physics. I hope he does the dlc if he hasn't already.

For many years I avoided watching every playthrough of this game, hoping that I'll be able to experience the magic of its story by myself. But that day might never come if all the things are to proceed as they are now. Thank you very much RT for this weirdly fantastical and bumbly experience , always love your content!

It is always amazing to see people play through this game, especially when you watch people like RT just randomly Bumble through half it. That's the beauty of Open-World games I guess lmao.

People after requesting RT to play Outer Wilds for the past couple of years: *_”Now what?_*

Ugh crap, that indeed was wild, for people who play the game it's one time experience. And for me, an observer, it's always like the first time. Mannn that was such an adventure, I absolutely love this game and it being on your channel only makes it better. Once again thank you so much for this playthrough, I enjoyed it, can't wait to see more of your meta theoretical quantum smart words smart words adventure in the Echoes of The Eye DLC!

I love watching you play these more…not necessarily serious, but more story bound games. It’s a very nice break, but still full of lovely commentary. Thank you for everything RT

This game is literally about the friends we made along the way

I’m so happy RT played this game because it deserves all the attention it can get. This game is absolutely heartwarming and amazing.

I noticed for the first while you instead of slowing down to land, got confused and absolutely just slammed into the ground. I'm proud of you

I downloaded and played this game on a whim about a month ago. I expected a bit of fun, not a life-altering experience. So happy to see one of my favourite creators playing it, excited to see how things go throughout the vid!

As Space Core once said: “I’m in space… SPACEE!!”

It's good that this edit included the "important" line about wanting to build a model. One of my favourite things about the Nomai is that they're not some perfect mysterious ancient civilisation. They're just a bunch of people who bicker and have little projects and have the occasional existential crisis and awkwardly flirt while everyone around them sighs, and they happen to be long dead. Either way, my favourite game is officially done (with the exception of the DLC, but it's up to RT if he wants to do that), so this year has lived up to its name as the one for playing favourites.

Edit: Rain Worlds also getting a DLC that's basically a sequel Hey RT If you liked this game You'll love Rain World Imagine the intensity and world exploration of this game The Harshness of S.T.A.L.K.E.R With a Metroidvania spin and beautiful graphics with the smartest most vivid worlds in gaming 20/10 whooped my ass you love it please stream it

Surviving in the wild, mankind's greatest challenge! 💜

It's a tradition for me to comment how great of a game this is on every Outer Wilds video in the universe, glad you played it Dan.

A little more explanation on Solanum on the Quantum Moon. Since the moon exists simultaneously at all 6 locations (5 in the solar system and one at the eye), when Solanum was on the moon, they existed in all 6 locations at once. So when the Interloper exploded and ghost matter killed all the Nomai, it only killed Solanum in 5 out of the 6 locations that they were in. So you'll find Solanum's corpse on the moon when it's at 5 locations but they survived on the Moon version that's at the eye.

Ive thoroughly gone through this entire game, and still, every time I watch someone play for the first time, it feels like im playing it again for the first time too, this game is amazing

The sun gives me absolute anxiety, you know that it will inevitably go supernova but with the way this video is cut you never know when as a viewer. Scarier than any Horrorgame and movie

This game is literally life changing and I love it so much. I can't wait to see how RT handles everything! Seriously though, if you've never seen this game, I would seriously recommend you play it first before watching RT. It's been ages since I played it and I still wake up thinking about it.

Dan I am so happy you finally got around to playing this, its an all time fav, amazing journey!

It brings me *SO MUCH* joy to see my favorite youtuber play my favorite game and WOW WHAT A PLAYTHROUGH. The luck and insane happenstance that led to RT's discovery of the Sun Station, the ATP, and especially the Self Ending easter egg just baffles me. Absolutely the wildest ride I've seen anyone take in this game.

Ok so, speaking as a big outer wilds fan, I watch a LOT of people play this game. I think RT is the first person who's been too SMART to figure out a lot of clues that I've seen? Man figured out a lot of the warp tech without needing the black hole forge, he skill-flew over the cacti rather than use the sand... like, wew, impressive

Ah yes, the joy of terrifyingly realistic death noises

I tried avoiding any type of outer wilds content so I can forget everything and play it all over again, but I just can't help watching a new player go through this amazing journey 😩 glad you enjoyed RT!

It's always an adventure to see this game again and again, and it's been awesome to take this journey with RT! Perhaps one day we'll be able to see his reaction to the echoes of the eye DLC as well to complete this spacefaring odyssey?

So glad you got around to playing this masterpiece, you should really check out the dlc as well, it's a slightly different kind of experience but just as high quality as the base game

Thanks for playing this game, it's the type of game that is enjoyable to watch others discover and you can only discover yourself once, so you seek out let's play to live that experience one more time, the dlc for outer wilds is also outstandingly good!

Outer Wilds was my favorite gaming experience of the last few years and watching this video was like living through it all again. Wonderful job.

The inspirational "omg spaceeee" music while RT and his spacecraft drown in a pool. Best game 10/10.

you know when an RTGame title ends with “for the first time” it’s gonna be good

I’m genuinely ecstatic to watch RT play this, I didn’t have the foggiest clue he was with my work and all.

One point that has occured to me, that I haven't seen talked too much about, is Gabbro's place in the time loop. Assuming I'm understanding how the loop works correctly, it sends you back to a point in time around when the statue that you interacted with was first activated. This means that the loop that Gabbro is stuck in is likely much longer than the players, and therefore a bit more existential and lonely. With only 22 minutes it becomes a race against time to learn and change, but what is it with more time? A slow march towards inevitability? An attempt to try and save those you care about with the larger time you have left? That last one seems to be implied by Gabbro themselves when you talk to them, and the meditation seems to hint that at a point, Gabbro found a way to shut the world out, and wait for the loop to reset, with however much time they had left.

This is delightful to watch, I've tried to look up people playing this game, but so many streamers are either dicking around trying to entertain their chat or not really focusing on the game, so it can be a bit frustrating to watch, but you're really interested and excited to explore and try things out and it's wonderful to follow. It's also exciting for me because you are discovering things in a completely different order from me too!

God, I wish I could experience this game for the first time all over again. I still cry buckets at parts of it...even knowing they're coming.

Ah outer wilds. The game that can only be experienced truly in the first playthrough. And then it loses its touch. I wish I could forget this game, just so I could play it again for the first time.

One of the best games I've played this year. I'm glad you decided to play it as well

Literally just finished this game yesterday and already can’t wait to reexperience it through my favorite gaming RU-vidr

I smiled so hard when I saw the thumbnail. Outer wilds is probably my favorite game I’ve ever played, and have been waiting for a RU-vidr I watch to experience it as well

i feel this quote says everything there is to say about outer wilds without spoiling anything The Outer Wilds. There are so many games out there that feature space travel and yet none of them really get it. The horror of an endless dark vacuum so intent on killing you that just 90 seconds in its inanimate presence is more than enough to freeze, suffocate, and explode you inside out. Space is literally the worst place in the universe. People always think of space as above us, but it's not really; you don't have to look up to see space, you have to look away from safety to see space. Then, when you're out there in the nothing, there are jewels; un-process-ibly large balls of fire and light held together by our own fucking anger, rocks that can range between husks of nothing or everything some life ever knows, and an endless amount of phenomena that would take our scientific knowledge and fuck it from arsehole to breakfast. But video games just don't get it. They just don't get space. Video games set in space are either just men with big swinging dicks firing at bug-eyed monsters or fucking truck driving simulators. If exploration does happen to be the focus, you'll find out that the main difference between the endless majesty that is life in this universe is the color of the fucking grass. Yeah, you're in space but it feels inaccessible like a fingerprint wouldn't take on it; like it's behind glass. The Outer Wilds - fucking hell - the Outer Wilds gets space. It doesn't care about scale or scientific accuracy, it gets the feel right. Yeah, your ship's made from wood and the majority of planets are the size of of a badly stocked Ikea, but watching all the stars in the sky go out one by one like far off fireworks and knowing that each one could be destroying an entire history and having to do that fucking every 22 minutes -- nothing. Nothing has made me feel like that before. No game, no book, no movie. It's beyond extraordinary. Its planets - fuck - its planets; each one a bizarre impossible place riddled with life and death and decay and nonsense. Each one dense in history and vandalized by time. Each one nightmarish and so, so beautiful and in 22 minutes, they're gone because the Outer Wilds isn't even really about space, it's about the question, the most important and terrifying and unanswerable question anyone ever asks: Why? Why bother? Why bother with any of this? People die, stars burn out, the universe will go quiet and dark and cold and in the longest run, nothing - absolutely nothing matters. Everything dies, the universe included. So why sit around the fire, playing music into a void that doesn't care? Why huddle around the light? Why play? Because, well - look at it. It's mad, all of it. Life is a big stupid blob of meaningless nothing. Yet from that, we find meaning. People, things, animals, art, sofas, cereal, Rubik's cubes, silly little games about space, whatever. None of it matters in the grand scheme - fuck the grand scheme! There's no logical reason for life and nobody's gonna mourn it when it's gone, but that's what makes it fantastic. Life is a little song that we hum to ourselves and, I wouldn't want it other way. The Outer Wilds is an optimistic game about nihilism. It's a game with no invisible walls, you can complete it in ten minutes if you know what to do - which you won't for hours - and the only limit is knowledge. It's a game literally like no other. The universe is big and long and impossible and daft and you, you happen to be experiencing it at the exact same point that you can play the Outer Wilds as well. Embrace that coincidence. Come on, what are you waiting for? The sun could explode tomorrow." - Daniel Hardcastle 2019

I had covid (still recovering) while this stream was happening and it was so nice to watch RT play through while I was sick. One of my favorite games of all time.

It was awesome seeing you play my favorite game of all time, I hope you'll consider playing the DLC as well, it's definetly long enough for a full stream and it kinda shows a different take on the universe.

The fact that you've seen the deep space satellite suggests that you own the DLC. If that's the case, you've not seen any DLC content(within this video's content at least). No spoilers from me just one thing: Should your path take you back to the system, the Timber Hearth deep space satellite observertory is quite nice this time of the year.

props to the editor, she did an amazing job.

Absolutely loved watching you play this game. The only missed moment you might have had is when you had the fun music playing while you discovered the dead Nomai from the escape pod in dark bramble. The music there sets the tone so well and makes that moment absolutely heartbreaking

This is such a good game! It was on my radar for a while and I knew to play it blind, seeing you upload made me get and play through it so I can watch this without caring about spoilers.