Outer Wilds OST - Travelers (All Instruments Join) 

We were there together. The final voices of a dying universe, passing the torch to the next one. May their campfires be surrounded by good cheer, good friends. And most important of all...marshmallows.

the greatest game you're not allowed to talk about

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

When all of the pieces came together and it clicked for me that this was never about saving the universe; it was about letting it go.

You can’t save the galaxy in a day... and that’s okay.

The song of the universe, but really there's nothing grand about it at all. Just a campfire and some peers. I dunno, I find that really touching.

1:47 "I am not familiar with this song, but I am honored to be a part of it."

Solanum's part is just so sad... many players can finish the game without ever finding Solanum. Her words at the very end... "I'm glad you remembered me"

Honestly. I wish I could forget everything I know about this game so I can play it all over again.

The death of a universe that ended in love and friendship instead of fear and selfishness could only lead to a new beautiful start

You'll only get to play this game 'for the first time' once. Treasure it.

Playing this game just after my aunt died was hard. I thought I was meant to find a way to save the universe, but I had to learn to let it go. The game's about accepting loss and embracing change, at least to me. My aunt was the universe and I have to accept that she's gone. God damn, this game is art.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a Bang, Not with a Whimper, But with a whistled tune around a warm campfire.

One time my spaceship smacked right into The Interloper, destroying my space craft and just jettisoning me out into space. I was all out of jet fuel and the sun turned into a red giant, so I knew my time was almost up. I didn’t know what else to do other than whip my signal scope out and spend the last minutes listening to the instruments... *gets vaporized by supernova*

The scariest thing is watching the sun explode as you hear each instrument fade out one by one

Something that absolutely destroyed me was, near the end of everything, Solanum asks you if you're ready to find out about jumping towards the eye, I answered not yet, I wasn't ready to leave everything behind, and she said: “It’s tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.” That broke me so hard I cried like a child.

Arguably the most emotional moment I had in a videogame was when I accidentally ended up stranded away from my ship at the very edge of the solar system, out of fuel and almost out of oxygen, when as I suffocated I pulled out my signalscope and lined it up with all the astronauts. At that moment, hearing all those people playing on different planets yet all to the same tune, whilst my character was feeling his lungs run out of air and collapse, I shed a few tears, because it felt like I had genuinely witnessed something beautiful and meaningful

"I learned a lot, by the end of everything. The past is the past, now but that's... you know, that's okay! it's never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won't get to see it. Still, it's, um, time for something new, now." - Riebeck

Listening to this while playing the game: "man, this is some comfy campfire music. Love it" Listening to this after finishing the game: *barely concealed crying in the middle of work*

"Cette façon là de récompenser de la curiosité par de la magie, c'est un truc que même le cinéma ne saura jamais faire..."

First time I heard solanum start playing I almost cried.

The most heartbreaking moment was when I went to the Ember Twin near the end of a loop and Chert was freaking out about all the stars going supernova. That completely blindsided me, because I was expecting him to say the same stuff as he does when I see him at the beginning of the loop, but nope, turns out the devs thought of that too.

I remember my first ending. I grabbed the teleporter at the center of ash twin and ran away from the system to escape the supernova. On my way out right before the sun exploded I opened my radio communicator and heard every insurrment at once. It was a truely beautiful sight, seeing all of it from so far away. Only made it more haunting to hear their instruments go out one at a time as the sun consumed them, leaving me alone in silence.

I realized something interesting about this song: It's a metaphor for the game. You're practically guaranteed to hear just one instrument on its own, before eventually using the signalscope to line them all up. So it starts out simple, and grows in complexity, just like your knowledge of the story and the story itself. But... Your experience of the song is short. Because it's not very long. It's a relatively brief melody playing on loop. Again, even if you match all five players together, or at the end if you get Solanum involved too... The song doesn't change. That's the game itself as well. You experience it in short, 20 minute loops, hoping something will change or be different by the end. But as countless people have pointed out, the game is about moving on. This song is comfy, it has that nice campfire vibe. But its overall brevity just means that you will get tired of it sooner or later, that you'll want to move on to something new. That's what the entire end of the game is about.

And people say games can’t be art

This song makes me nostalgic for something I can't remember

This is not a game, this is art, this is an experience. This is not a soundtrack, this is a masterpiece.

This game is fantastic. One of the only games I've played that's made me feel a genuine sense of wonder at the things I saw while exploring. 10/10 best space exploration game hands down.

My dog passed away mid-way through my play through so I was already sad while finishing the game. I fucking cried at the end the moment they all started playing together.

Perfect, doesn’t cut out too soon and even has Solarium’s playing

Écouter cette musique après la vidéo de Review c'est un mood

"aren't you forgetting somebody?" tears.

When the universe dies in sad silence let it know that at least it isn't alone.

There's a Sincerity and Genuine feeling to all the instruments, Especially the Whistling. (If you want to call it an Instrument) But it adds this very homely feeling to the song, like how the whistle isnt perfect, and the banjo isn't exactly on beat. It really makes it sound like its just a couple of people, playing a song around a campfire as they relax. No studio, no audience, just an experience. Like the rest of this gorgeous game.

Time Stamps for when each instrument joins in: 0:00 Banjo 0:20 Harmonica 0:41 Flute 1:04 Whistle 1:26 Drums 1:45 Piano

I still don't understand how a song from a video game I haven't even played can be so freaking PERFECT

In the new universe, all quantum shards will resonate with this tune. Makes me wonder about the musical tastes of the universe before, that all the shards make this ominous haunting wail.

"We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend" I always pay tribute to this part of the game with a tear.

"This song is new to me but I am happy to be a part of it. Thank you for remembering me."

This song gets me to the verge of tears every time. Such a powerful game

One time, I was playing and I just started another loop and then it hit me, that the station in Giant's Deep's orbit is launching the probe the moment you start a loop. I saw the probe fly into space so I got into the ship and flew towards the probe. It turns out you can actually visit the probe that launches and it has its own textures. But then I realized the entire time I was with the probe I was getting farther away from the solar system. I ended up 155km away from the sun, which allowed me to easily hear all the instruments at once. I still died to the supernova though. Edit: I just finished the game and... Wow. That was an amazing ending. I only cried for 30 minutes.

It'll be a real shame if this game isn't at least nominated for GOTY.

I finished Outer Wilds several months ago, and I still can't listen to this song without crying. Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I'm typing this. What an amazing, unreal, fantastic, masterpiece gem of a game.

I'm in a rough place right now. A month ago I turned 26. I have few things going on in my life. No job, a college degree that I don't feel like using anymore. Since 2013 I feel like I've accomplished nothing. I graduated, failed to keep any job in my area of choice and most of the times it was to blame in my own incompetence. But sometimes not. I gave up on pursuing it. I joined a band in 2015 and since then we released 3 albums. The last one a month ago, amongst this fucked up corona pandemic. I also wanna release my own solo work, with my own vision of what music should be, but lately it feels like it doesn't really matter. I just can't do it. I'm not good enough, but the worst is that some days I feel like I can, but most of them days are horrible. My girlfriend says I have the impostor's syndrome, and although I know what it is, I do not understand it enough to do something about it. Like, wtf does it even mean? The thing is, I come back to this video every month or so because it just inspires me. I didn't play Outer Wilds, but I enjoy space and a lot of space videos keep popping up on my recommended, including gameplays of space games. So a couple of Outer Wilds videos started showing up and I decided to watch them. Most of them were random stuff that didn't make sense to me, so I watched without understanding it and shrugged it off. Until one day last year, a video about all the endings of the game showed up. I only have money to make ends meet, so I figured I would watch because I'd never have money to buy a decent computer, or even buy the game. Thought it wouldn't matter much to see the endings of a normal space game, maybe looking for some cool sights and stuff. Boy, was I wrong. The last ending of the 44 minute video was the intended ending. As I watched it, I realized that maybe this wasn't a normal game after all, as the "intended ending" as the video stated was dragging for too long. When the player in question joined the others around the campfire and all of then, one by one started to play the song, I fucking dismantled myself. I didn't know absolutely nothing about the game and how do you get there, but I cried. Just the image of some people around the campfire playing this beautifully constructed melody broke me down. I got out of my bed and walked around my house without knowing what to do. I still regret watching that video, but at the same time I don't. I didn't realize that I needed that moment. My regret comes from not playing the game myself and discovering it by my own curiosity Every month or so since then, I come back to this video. It inspired me to write my first album. An audiobook about a space odyssey centered around a character accompanied by music and narration. Every month or so I come back to this video in search of the same feeling I had when I watched the endings video, because the level of dread and meaninglessness that I'm currently on is too strong for me to feel like going on with it. I have yet to finish the audiobook. I'm stuck. I feel like I'm writing shit. I feel like shit. Like the twelve years I spent training on my music skills brought me nothing, although it is the thing that I most love about myself, but it feels like nothing now. I fear for the day that I come by this video and it, as well, fails to bring me joy. I'm sorry about the long comment and any grammar mistakes. English is my second language. If you made it this far, I'm not looking for attention, just needed to put it out somewhere. Where nobody can't recognize me. I'm too insecure right now to expose this to someone I love or care about. Please, take good care of yourselves. Eat well, drink lots of water, don't stay up for too long but also, don't sleep too much. I hope you have a nice year.

Freaking superb you funky little astronauts

The instruments themselves kind of reflect the planets they can be found on. - The Banjo on the Brittle Hollow, with a long passage connecting to a white hole - The Harmonica in the Dark Bramble, with many interior compartments - The Flute on Giant's Deep, shaped like a vortex - Esker whistling on Attlerock, closest to the home of his species - The Drums (And cymbals/bells) on the Hourglass Twins, one solid and pale, the other divided or with an interior - The Nomai Staff (Piano) on the Quantum Moon, an ancient instrument that you don't understand

I love the way solanum plays offbeat, signifying that the nomai are gone and are not quite in reach of the hearthians to interract with. Yet the final few notes of each segment are played in harmony, signifying the shared memories and the friendships you have built up, even though you are seperated by countless years.

No other piece of music can describe how wonderful the universe is. I'm so glad that I exist, I'm so glad I am alive and having the opportunity to be part of it. I wish more people would think like me. We're not just star dust, we might be the only living thing in the whole universe that are able to appreciate it all. Goddamn I love this game so, so much.

I'm not the type that gets easily into something, but this end. It was one of the hardest emotions I felt this year.

I was so sad when everyone played together, even now as i right this i never really wanted the journey to end there, i wanted to speak more with the characters and friends i had made and wanted to keep going, heck, even when i first got to the ash twin it took me everything to take the core and then like after 10 minutes of just sitting there holding it, i put it back, i couldn't let that be the end, not yet atleast.... Gosh this game is beautiful, despite being overshadowed by the more popular and bigger ones this will always be my GOTY. :) Also. PETITION FOR THE DEVS TO ADD A "HUG" OPTION FOR OUR QUANTUM FRIEND SOLANUM.

Great detail that's missing from the soundtrack version, is that when they join into the song around the camp fire, they start out of time with the others, quickly adjust, and occasionally fall out of time and correct again, just like real people playing real instruments. It's a fantastic touch and stuff like that is the very essence of the game. Every time you play you notice something different, whether it be shattering spacetime, figuring out how the time loop works, or even just noticing how the instrument playing is JUST off perfect.

I didn't managed to find my way the first time. Neither the second. Neither the 100th time. But when I did... Damn. This is hands down the best game I have ever played in my life.

This is how I want the universe to end. Friends playing music until the absolute end of their lifes and everything they once knew, in hopes for something new. The thing is all of these people are already dead, they died in the supernova or have their body spread throughout the quantum moon. And if the Quantum entaglement theory is true then all of these people are from the players mind, the people they met, in the way he remembered them.

I dont remember the last time a game had me hooked so god damned hard. In one word this game is ART

I can't explain what I feel when I hear this song It's a mixture of sensations, the sadness of ending up, the joy of having been there in the first place, the peace of knowing that even everything goes wrong, everything passes, the feeling of having people who will always be there for me, the inspiration to do something big, but the reassurance that I don't need to be big I just need to be happy And this music makes me happy it fills me, I don't know what but i know it's a good thing something really good

Merci The Great Review pour avoir produit la meilleure vidéo du RU-vid francophone. Et merci à Outer Wilds d'exister.

I speak for most of us when I say when you have seen the ending, and experienced the game... you just get a gut feeling inside you when you listen to this. You know a whole world was made from this, and yet, it sounds so surreal, and all the pieces are falling into place.

I wonder if when future generations find the eye's singal, will they hear our song?

"A gente se vê algum dia"

1) Lay down 2) Try not to cry 3) Cry, a LOT

Doctor: you have four minutes to live Me: watches this video

Thank you, Danial Hardcastle (Nerdcubed/Nerd^3), for introducing me to one of my favorite games of all time.

Kinda makes me want to cry a little bit, you know. The fact that the theme of the universe isn't some complicated symphony of astral instruments beyond our comprehension but rather a simple song, played with simple instruments. A song that is enjoyed with some friends around a campfire with maybe some stories of hardships and some marshmallows to go along with them. Really makes you realize why we even bother. It's not to see the end or to become something great but rather to be something to someone else. No matter how big the universe is the most important things in it are the friends by your side.

I am playing this music every morning welcoming my kindergarten students to classroom. The music brings calmness as they enter and play quietly waiting for class to begin. Thank you.

I love that aesthetic of The Little Prince style and its way of representing the game. The representation of how the era of light in the universe ends is wonderful and that mystery of what happened to them was incredible. And his soundtrack is not bad precisely. That game has a lot of unique moments. It's just so good.

Shit makes me want to cry so badly, god

Ok, I've made up my mind. Imma launch myself in a random direction into space with only campfire supplies, unlimited marshmallows, and a guitar.

doctor: you have 4 minutes and 11 second of life what is you last words or movement? me:

Absolutely stunning, how all these notes from such different instruments mix to find harmony. Makes me wonder if we could join in, y’know? Just pick up an instrument and play along, adding our own voice to the song.

Almost makes you forget you were just getting chased down by a pack of giant space anglers

relaxa, eu tb vim aqui pra lembrar das lives

Hello traveler, we only have a few seconds left before the sun explodes, why don't you join us around the campfire ?

I finished the game listened to this and my reaction was "who the hell is playing the piano?" So i went and did the quantum moon stuff

FeelsStrongMan

I've done my best to avoid spoilers for this game, but yet I've found little bits and pieces here and there. I'm glad I found this and I look forward to hearing this in context. Until then it feels appropriate to wish you all a very happy: So long, and thanks for all the fish.

This song literally nails the feeling of the end of life and remembering its greatest and beautiful moments.

This game was beautiful and it’s soundtrack equally so. The ending was so touching

*obrigado por fazer parte da stream*

Pour les français passant par là, il y a fort à parier que vous avez vu la même vidéo de 2h que moi ... Installez-vous, regardons les étoiles et profitons des émotions communes qui doivent nous animer.

I can't stop thinking about this damn game

a live acabo FeelsBadMan

Welcome. This is the end of it all. A lot must be going through your head. Was it worth it? Was I a good person? Did I become who I wanted to be? But those questions mean nothing now. You have no frame of reference when the entire universe is falling apart. Now, all you can do is sit. Grab your marshmallows, and your friends. Light a fire, and tell some stories. Take a couple strums on your banjo, and play a heartwarming song. Because that's what's really important. You want to know what the meaning of life was? Well, that's a good question. I think it's all up to how you make it. It's not up to some uptight philosopher to tell you. It's all up to you. I know, big responsibility. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps there was some special point that we just didn't get. I mean, what do I know. I just whistled a nice tune, in a nice crater, on a nice little moon. That was enough for me.

I cry everytime i hear this song. The emotion it conveys is just too real and human. Such a perfect balance of content and sadness

hey anyone who isn't active on social media and comes back to this video daily like i do, you should know that a steam database update included a new dlc for outer wilds. we don't know anything about it other than that its real (with both annapurna interactive and mobius digital retweeting its discovery), so it could be just a soundtrack/artbook or an expansion with gameplay.

I haven’t played this game, I’ve watched one game play and heard an outstanding and moving speech from Nerdcubed about it. The only thing I know for sure is this little melody, this beautiful jumble of instruments and people will never leave my head and when all goes quiet and I’m no longer here some part of me that’s been flung into the universe will be humming this tune.

People don't seem to get the darker message behind it, would you rather keep dying and being brought back to life only to know you're going to die again, or would you rather purposely end dying knowing you would never get to live again

One of the moments that always brings me to tears is Esker being excited to play music around the bonfire with other folk again. In the end, it's the little moments above all else that we appreciate.

The banjo is iconic for Outer Wilds, but when I played it felt right and necessary that Solanum be the first to start playing. I love that every different combination of instruments joining the song feels slightly different, but always beautiful.

*Obrigado por fazer parte da stream!*

The whole of the universe, reborn by a humble tune ... if that’s not poetic, nothing could ever be 🌌

"I can't wait to play with the whole group again"

A song to usher in the new universe, and to remember the old universe to. A song of welcoming, and yet a song of goodbyes.

Even the OST is a spoiler! good thing I already played it, beautiful game, terrifying and beautiful.

Learned it on bass just so i can feel included

Estaremos aqui Celbo

This is such an amazing game. And whoever wrote this song is a genius. It really gives you a sense of appreciation, happiness, and bliss. But there’s a hint of sadness to it. It’s really absolutely perfect.

The future is built by those who brave the unknown.

Thx cellbit to show me this game

For someone who’s never heard music, Solanum absolutely crushed her part.

A música é uma metáfora, o significado por trás dela só é possível de se compreender após terminar o jogo... vejo muitas pessoas lembrando da música por conta do final das lives do Cellbit, mas isso me irrita tanto... lembram da música pelo motivo errado, ouvir esse instrumental rápido e delicado não é só ouvir uma música, é ver uma história inteira passando pelos seus olhos e quando você tenta segurar você deixa passar, porque tudo tem um fim... mas ao contrário do que muitos pensam, o fim não precisa ser triste e melancólico, pode ser algo feliz, como uma música tocada entre amigos... e quando o piano da Solanum toca, percebemos o quanto escolhas simples podem mudar o rumo da nossa vida ou de todo o universo... Outer Wilds é uma obra prima, eu espero que a música dos viajantes seja lembrada pelo seu verdadeiro significado e não pelo fim de um evento que irá se repetir eventualmente, mas sim, por aquele que acabou e nunca mais se repetirá, são só 22 minutos, mas esses 22 minutos serão como a eternidade nos corações de quem os presenciou