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[โ€“] dom@lemmy.ca 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man. Such a shame those games came out at the same time with effectively the same name

[โ€“] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Outer Wilds is probably older. There was a prototype in 2012 for the guy's master's thesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AIOT24MWk

And I remember playing a beta version 3 years before release or so with a few less planets and much more primitive graphics.