In this respect, Out There is a well-thought-out experience, one that truly didn’t need a narrative to follow to make it shine.
Even the more sci-fi concepts have some unique characteristics to them, from the explanation of technology to help players in exploring the galaxy, to how they justify alien physiology and alien energy systems. Mi-Clos Studio definitely injected some hard science into the game, from planet names to the actual trajectory of light in space we see a semblance of realism on display to sell the galaxy as a plausible one. I am a huge fan, for example, of the more abstract and unusual alien creatures you can meet and recruit you have floating crystalline rock beings, egg-sized monsters with a beady head, giant pink-colored creatures with massive, blue eyes every alien avoid the ‘rubber forehead’ trope you would expect from Star Trek and truly gives an impression of something strange and unique.
The narrative falls flat for me in the end, but the game’s overall design does pick up the slack a bit. Strange Tales and Hard Science The general alien design of Out There is superb! Out There compensates by giving you a type of planet to discover (one of four types is available) but this can cost time and resources that the player may not be able to afford, especially if they are just trying to follow markers to push the story along. Sometimes finding a specific character or location on a randomly generated planet relies too heavily on RNG, which in turn burns through your resources faster than a player might like. This is also exacerbated by the procedurally generated world. A lot of this feels very tacked on, the galaxy is pretty large, with plenty of planets to hop on, yet the early stages don’t encourage much exploration or experimentation for the player at all. Out There starts, for example, by guiding you towards your former ship, now floating somewhere in space, you then need to make your way to a homeworld some light-years away, before the mission objectives begin to open up and progress the storyline. The roguelike design can’t hold the more linear storyline together, and that becomes a problem in the early goings of the game. There is a consequence to actions for sure, but that emerges from the gameplay over the storyline in most instances. Part of the issue for me was how the narrative butted heads with the gameplay Out There is trying to be a more straightforward space opera but doesn’t offer too much in the way of choice. It follows a fairly stock standard adventure story, where a band of misfits tries to survive in a larger world think a more survivalist take on Star Wars but without bipedal aliens. There really is not much to the narrative of Out There outside of this premise. Players will play as commander Nyx, a human captain who must build up a new crew of comrades against the Archon, explore the world for resources, and make her way to victory. The objective of Out There is simple find a way to defeat a galactic being known as the Archon, who has taken over the galaxy in the interim years of your own cryosleep after he escaped from your clutches previously. A Not So Space Epic Planet-hopping and survival are the main draws in Out There, but often the narrative tries to point you in another direction.
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