The Outer Worlds: Obsidian’s Test Run for Greatness

A game review of The Outer Worlds, and Obsidian’s past and future.

It was in conversation with a gravedigger just outside the fictional town of Edgewater that The Outer Worlds first grabbed my attention. I sat horrified as this man revealed his fellow townspeople were being killed by plague and he was burying the bodies. The townspeople had a right, granted by the corporation that ‘employed’ them, to remain in the plot for a set amount of years — as long as their family members paid the fees. He…