Latest about The Outer Worlds 2
The Outer Worlds 2 was obviously inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, but if you're "tired" of hearing that, its director says it's got plenty of Deus Ex DNA too
News Obsidian seems to have a confusing relationship with some of its RPG legacy
The Outer Worlds 2 has over 90 perks, but you can't respec your character because your "choices are permanent" and the RPG's director wants to make sure "you're building your character and really doubling down"
News "There's a lot of times where you'll see games where they allow infinite respec, and at that point I'm not really role-playing a character"
The Outer Worlds 2 director says not every RPG is "for every single person," so Obsidian is "not going to make a game for literally everybody" because "it waters down the experience a lot"
News He wants to "make sure that the role-playing is really strong"
How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"
Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"
With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
Feature Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG that's reactive to your decisions
After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi adventure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special
The Outer Worlds 2 is fixing the first RPG's biggest weakness by improving guns "in every way", and the sci-fi nerd in me is already screaming about the Shrink Ray
Opinion Opinion | The Outer World 2's sci-fi weapons sound rad as hell, and the improvements look like such a step up from the first RPG
The Outer Worlds 2 director reveals Obsidian "did a full breakdown on Destiny" and sought advice from the Halo team for the sequel's shooting
News "Even before The Outer Worlds 1 shipped, that was one of the things that we knew we had wanted to improve"
