Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC (2021)

It’s really hard to write about this game without spoiling anything. If you plan to play it, do yourself a favor and go in completely blind. I’ll hide any story stuff behind a spoiler wall, but I’ll talk a bit about the mechanics and how they differ from the main game. I’ve written and gushed about the main game, so it seems only natural to write about the DLC too. Let’s start by talking about the scope a bit. The main game had you flying around a whole solar system, piecing together story threads that often spanned multiple planets. You’d usually enter the storyline somewhere smack in the middle and then you’d slowly figure out what happened before and where everything led in the end. I’m not going to lie. When I first saw the new place from the DLC, despite how breathtakingly beautiful it looks, I thought “is that all?” I shouldn’t complain as it still took me about 10 hours to fully explore the place1 and unlock it’s mysteries. Still, I loved flying around the universe in my little…