Obsidian announces The Outer Worlds sci-fi RPG for PC, PS4, and Xbox One

We now know what Obsidian Entertainment’s first project is as a Microsoft-owned studio: It’s The Outer Wilds, a sci-fi role-playing game for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One coming out in 2019. The studio made the announcement at tonight’s The Game Awards show in Los Angeles.

The Outer Worlds will be a single-player, first-person RPG. It’s the first sci-fi game for Obsidian Entertainment since 2004’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II — The Sith Lords, which garnered the studio critical praise despite a raft of bugs and cut material. 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas was the last time Obsidian made a game with a first-person viewpoint (though it’s better in the third-person viewpoint). It’s coming from the original creators of Fallout, and the Private Division is working on this, too. It worked on Kerbal Space Program DLC.