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Outer Wilds' INCREDIBLY Obscure Details - 10 Things You Didn't Know

Chert's Research Notes

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Outer Wilds still has details players are spotting seven years after this masterpiece of a game was released, and this video is shining a light on some of the most obscure ones found by ‪@atroris5450‬.

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From the particles floating around the solar system, to the features of your ship, and some of the depths of the Easter Eggs found in the game, AtroriS had plenty that he found.

We explore Brittle Hollow, Timber Hearth, Giant's Deep, and more of the Hearthian's star system here. Enjoy this collaboration of how much attention developers Mobius Digital put into Outer Wilds.

This video has spoilers for Outer Wilds, and the last two points spoil elements of Echoes of the Eye. It's best to watch this after you've finished the game to enjoy Outer Wilds to its full extent.

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Composer: Andrew Prahlow
Game developer: Mobius Digital
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive

20 Comments

@atroris5450 4 months ago Pinned

Thank you once again for making this great collaboration possible!
Working with you has been really nice and I'm very happy with the video it brought forward!

@awesomegamer2430 4 months ago

THE OUTER WILDS FANDOM ISNT DEAD YET
i scream as they drag me back into the padded room

@Kokally 4 months ago

Here's a severely obscure detail that's actually lore-related; if you stand on the remaining icy surface of Dark Bramble and wait, eventually you'll find yourself lifted off the planet and pulled into space. This phenomena actually goes to explain why a Dark Bramble seed has made it to Timber Hearth, and if you look around what you'll find is that Giant's Deep passes close enough to Dark Bramble to overwhelm its gravity well and lift things off its surface. ::)

@Stigeweard_Winfrith 4 months ago

6:15 When I entered the ATP for the first time I was playing on my laptop the power went out so the lights in my room went dark, it's probably the most immersed in a game I've ever felt

@Mik_S 4 months ago

The Steins;Gate Easter egg was added in one of the last patches and the clue how to find it is in the patch notes.
"It's me. No time to chat, SERN has found me. The drop at the flaming flower's atelier is active. Yes, of course I switched it off! El ps--hey, they hung up on me!"

@harsh5424-wastaken 4 months ago

The Steins;Gate one blew my mind! That one is DEFINITELY the most obscure (and easily my favorite) one!

@Zoe_A_MacDonald 4 months ago

Outer Wilds and Steins;Gate are two of my favourite time travel stories, I had no idea there was a SG easter egg. That's amazing.

@Salmon-r4u 4 months ago

This one might be kind of obscure, but did you realise that the Hearthians actually have 4 eyes?

@Flynn327 4 months ago

I love Steins;Gate, so that is easily my favorite easter egg in the game. Players found that unlit torch based on a clue in a patch note that said: “It’s me. No time to chat, SERN has found me. The drop at the flaming flower’s atelier is active. Yes, of course I switched it off! El ps— hey, they hung up on me!”
The flaming flower refers to Phlox, which is a genus of flower named from the Greek word for flame. An atelier is an artist’s workshop. Thus leading to something switched off in Phlox’s workshop!

@HectorBenitoGutierrez 4 months ago

I think the Strangers eyes shine because they are reflective... You know.. like cats 🥺

@JFMNBright 4 months ago

I swear, they keep adding more and more Easter eggs every time I look away.
Especially the banana one! The ‘’meet yourself at the ash twin project” trick is already basically an Easter egg too, so the fact that they programmed a specific condition for an Easter egg COMBO like this is incredible. So much love went into the details of this game.

@ChrisMGermann 3 months ago

Here's one you didn't mention that I'm proud of finding; the Attlerock once saved Timber Hearth from a mass extinction event.

The moon is actually tidal locked with Timber Hearth, and like our moon it also has a "dark side" that never faces toward the planet. On that dark side, you'll find a large crater, full of ice shards identical from the ice from Dark Bramble. At some point, presumably when the ice world was broken up and destroyed by the Bramble growing, a large piece of the planet and collided with the Attlerock.

The thing is, in a brilliant little piece of environmental storytelling, the only way for the impact crater to be smack dab in the middle of the dark side of the moon is if that meteor was actually on a collision course for Timber Hearth, and the Attlerock intercepted and took the impact instead, sparing whatever primordial Hearthians were living on the planet below!

@rjkinnerart 4 months ago

You've probably already covered this in previous videos, but one of my favorite details is the design of the Eye. Take a closer look at the real-life Voyager probes' Golden Records. You might find a certain pulsar map that looks quite familiar ::)
Which would mean **SPOILERS** that the last Universe before the Hearthians and Nomai was ours. And that either the Voyager probes found the Eye, or a human was the last conscious observer. And I love that little detail so much.

@RaccoonBender 4 months ago

Thank you for featuring my channel in the video!! It's awesome to be part of such a great community!
I really appreciate the shoutout ::)

@Cupidstunnt 3 months ago

In Zelda: OOT the Owl that helps you is called Kaepora Gaebora. This is also the name of the prisoner in Outer Wilds code.

In Dark Bramble there's a seed that you can shoot your scout through that leads to an inaccessible room with a gate and statues. It is a reference to another game called "Elsinore" that also has a time loop mechanic, as well as the art director worked on both games

@zimon85 4 months ago (edited)

The gelbana is truly a hidden easter egg. Wow!

@Starmarack 4 months ago (edited)

My super obscure detail is that the (DLC spoiler) artificial sun in the Stranger is hot enough to hurt and eventually kill you if you actually reach it.

Great vid! I learned a lot.

@Maxran50 4 months ago

The rotted BANANA WTF I know or at least have read about the rest but the easter egg in the easter egg was not expected! Your videos are so awesome

@riledupryepie 4 months ago

very mild Echoes of the Eye spoilers
this isn't fully reflected visually but when it comes to the slide reels not having enough visible slides, i think they unfold into a thin spiral (like a clock spring!) which is fed through the projector as it spins

@slyjin2004 4 months ago (edited)

11:00 oh my gosh I am flipping OUT watching this part, aside from outer wilds. Steins;gate (and the Science adventure series as a whole, which is where steins gate comes from) have both been my recent hyper fixations and I had no clue that they added a reference to it in this game, what are the freaking odds. I went into this video in a whim before going to bed at 2am and am now going crazy thinking of the odds that out of every media they could have referenced, it is the one I am also obsessed with at the same time. Peak mentions peak! 😂 Amazing vid, lovely info! El Psy Kongroo.