don't play this unless you have friends (or a superhuman ability to discern the depth of objects).

This review contains spoilers

My review doesn't have a focus on technical aspects, but rather an emphasis on the story and the things it made me feel, but I still need to say: This game is meticulously well done. It presents so many different layers that I don't know exactly where to start. It's unique, an unforgettable odyssey into the unknown, and of course, with an atmosphere so comforting and confident that you completely forget you're loose in a huge dark world. The setting is also spectacular. Once hopeful and fearful, it becomes melancholic and mysterious as you progress, and in a way it's also a bit macabre at times, especially when you enter the eye. But that ominous outlook doesn't last long, and with a comforting, uplifting smile, I find myself a little wistful at the grandeur and hope this game brings me. It's a work of art, a fascinating exploration experience into an unusual mystery, every measly detail is so magnificent and meticulous that you don't know how it will manage to top the previous narrative, but it always does and with an essential lesson of a world whose only thing really needed to discover the truth is your own curiosity. The world is the same from beginning to end, but you are not! And that is the most important cycle: change. Accepting that not everything will stay the same and that sometimes our experiences transform us completely; they mark the hardest part, the end of our time. But the inevitable end of the universe, and its process of acceptance, are perhaps the most profound and important message of this whole game. We have to accept that no matter what, "the past is the past... but that's okay! The past never truly ends. The future is always built on the past, even if we can't see it". That is the true and inevitable purpose, the closing of the cycle that will irretrievably create another. A period in time when it doesn't matter what you are, but what you want to be. That is life, and far beyond a game, that is Outer Wilds. Our journey is made up of many choices ... and choosing to play this game was undoubtedly one of the best I have ever made.