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The Outer Worlds 2 fixes everything wrong with the original

Grant St. Clair
Oct 29, 2025
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The Outer Worlds 2. Image via Obsidian Entertainment

No, I don’t know how “[X] is a lot of fun“ became a proper review series on this site, but I’m rolling with it.

2019’s decidedly mid The Outer Worlds wasn’t exactly a lot of fun, but it was still fun. It placed players in a dystopian space colony ruled by a megacorporation, offering choice-driven gamepl…

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