The Outer Worlds is the Skyrim in space I’ve always wanted

One of my favorite games on the Xbox 360 was The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. That 2006 open-world fantasy was massive and open-ended, and it signified what the future of games looked like. So I remember getting excited for the possibility of something like Oblivion and then The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in space when we started hearing that the new Bethesda game was going sci-fi. It took more than 10 years, but we finally got that game in developer Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds.

Obsidian and publisher Private Division are releasing The Outer Worlds on October 25 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It’s coming to Switch eventually as well, and if you are playing on PC or Xbox, you can get it as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription. And you should.