

What if you never spotted that note? Or bothered to visit the radio station? Like I said up top, you’d straight-up miss the game. How I learned to love Outer Wilds’ time loop That radio station, a few photographs, and a number will get you where you’re going. There’s a new note in the museum on the planet where Outer Wilds begins. Here’s the closest I’ll come to spoiling Echoes of the Eye, though really I’m just providing a map to reaching it. When I say “find the game,” I mean that literally. The only reason Echoes of the Eye isn’t a true sequel, as far as I can tell, is because you can’t experience its many wonders without finding the game within the original’s universe. And the game can be played without uncovering a single secret in the original Outer Wilds. The creators tell a new story, arguably darker and more mysterious than the first. It’s nearly as long as its predecessor, plopping the player in a similarly massive and disorienting setting. But by practically every measure, Echoes of the Eye is a sequel. Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye has been marketed as a downloadable expansion to the original game, Polygon’s 2019 Game of the Year. If you want to see the very best of the best for your platform(s) of choice, check out Polygon Essentials. When we award a game the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the title is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games.
