It's frustrating that nobody will let you spoil Outer Wilds. I'm desperately waiting for the moment where we all agree that it's been long enough since the game's 2019 release to gush about it. It's the kind of game where you want to share stories about how you stumbled on each morsel of information and what puzzles flattened your brain. And most of all, I want to talk about that ending. Someone called Outer Wilds the only truly melancholy game, and not only is this correct, its ending heightens this, not because of its pessimism about the end of the world, but because of its optimism... Read more.