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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2023

Should you play it?

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.

What works

  • Meaningful player choice and character customization
  • Engaging narrative and well-written dialogue
  • Improved graphics and performance after patches
  • Multiple playthroughs with varied approaches
  • Compelling companion interactions

Things to keep in mind

  • Initial performance issues and bugs at launch
  • Combat considered clunky or mediocre by some
  • Short main story length
  • Some players find world small or repetitive
  • Upgrade price criticized by some users

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • God of War

  • Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

  • Jade Empire™: Special Edition

  • Tales of ARISE

  • Divinity II: Developer's Cut

Less intimate

Games that feels like The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition but with less focus on close relationships

  • Prey

  • High On Life

  • High On Life 2

  • Sudeki

  • Dishonored 2

  • The Surge

More social

Games that feels like The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • The Darkness II

  • Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Alpha Protocol™

  • The Outer Worlds 2

  • The Outer Worlds

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Avowed

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How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. These titles are not in What to play next.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Last update: 21/08/2026