Outer Wilds was a game that felt complete, lacking nothing and needing nothing. It told a story that started when it needed to and ended when it needed to. It's no surprise that Outer Wilds was one of 2019's best indie games, winning the BAFTA game awards.
It's also why it was so surprising when Mobius Digital announced Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. The game was a tightly constructed puzzle box; where would the extra pieces fit?
Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye is now out, and those worries have been addressed. It's nothing as extreme as a new planet materializing in Outer Wilds' universe out of nowhere. It's a bit more plausible and subtle than that, so much so that the new content can actually be a bit hard to find.
Starting Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye DLC
A word of warning: just like landing on Outer Wilds' Quantum Moon, finding Echoes of the Eye's new content is a deliberate puzzle in and of itself. When starting Echoes of the Eye, the game greets the player with an announcement that Timber Hearth's museum has a new exhibit. It's helpfully labeled near the museum entrance, a tribute to Timber Hearth's deep space radio tower. Players can find it on the surface, not too far away from the ship's landing site.
Inside the tower, there's a room with four large pictures, each taken by their deep space satellite and labeled with a degree of rotation: 40, 137, 248, and 350. There's also a recording that says one of the photos has something "impossible" in it, which doesn't appear in any others.
It's not the photo with Gabbro staring straight at the camera. It's the 40-degree photo, which has a small object starting to cover the sun. Once the player figures that out, it's time to visit the satellite itself.
Visiting the Sattelite
The satellite can be hard to find when visually searching but is easily tracked. Players just need to open their map and zoom out all the way; they should be able to see the satellite somewhere in the solar system's vertical orbit. From there, they can set a lock-on.
Near the satellite is a floating recorder, where Gabbro notes that there's nothing wrong with the lens. If the player looks at the satellite closely, they'll see a screen with a number listing the satellite's degree of rotation. The trick is to get to the satellite early enough in Outer Wilds' loop that the player can see what occurs at 40 degrees.
They should see the same object starting to seemingly eclipse the sun. Fly towards it while it's still intersecting, and the player will find something interesting.
The player doesn't need to do this rigmarole with every loop. Once visited, the new area will appear on the ship's computer, and they can set a HUD marker from there.
Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye is available now for PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One.