Starfield was a disappointment for many players. Anyone who has been looking for a better sci-fi RPG since then can simply head to the Epic Games Store orbit next week and pick up The Outer Worlds in the Spacer's Choice Edition – completely free of charge.
Epic Games is giving away The Outer Worlds
Every Thursday, Epic Games offers new free games for a week. PC players can still grab Call of the Wild: The Angler and Invincible Presents: Atom Eve for free until March 28th at 4 p.m. Islets will then be available for free until April 4th at 4:00 p.m. (check out the Epic Games Store).
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Epic Games actually only reveals what customers can look forward to in the coming week with the launch of the new free game – but this time the surprise was spoiled. The well-informed leaker billbil-kun, who is best known for his PS Plus leaks, revealed in advance via Dealabs which game it is Free in the Epic Games Store from April 4th at 4:00 p.m gives:
The Outer Worlds – Spacer's Choice Edition (Test)
The sci-fi RPG from developer Obisidian originally appeared in 2020 and was re-released again in 2023 as part of the Spacer's Choice Edition, which turns the graphics screw, increases the level limit of your character and includes all DLCs.
The first scenes from the revised version of The Outer Worlds can be seen in the official trailer:
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Real bargain hunters may already have The Outer Worlds in the Spacer's Choice Edition in their game library, because the sci-fi RPG was already offered for free by Epic Games for Christmas 2023.
Who is The Outer Worlds worthwhile for?
In the GIGA test, The Outer Worlds received a rating of 8.5 out of 10 possible points to reach. Colleague Alexanders Gehlsdorf was quite impressed by the space adventure. You may look in vain for real innovations, but if you haven't really warmed up to the more recent games from BioWare and Bethesda and are looking for an adequate alternative, you should definitely give The Outer Worlds a chance.
Anyone who takes a look at the user ratings on Metacritic for The Outer Worlds and Starfield will see that that the PC version of The Outer Worlds performs better. Starfield only achieved a measly 5.6 points. For The Outer Worlds it is at least 7.3 points – at least for the original version from 2020. The Spacer's Choice Edition currently has a rating of 6.0 points, but this is mainly due to the fact that the performance of the PC version at the time of release was a disaster (source: Metacritic).
However, Obsidian has since released a few updates that have fixed the problem. The bottom line is that the original still runs more smoothly. However, this is not surprising considering that the Spacer's Choice Edition is a significantly better graphics offers.
Epic Games is expected to give away The Outer Worlds in the Spacer's Choice Edition from April 4th at 4:00 p.m. to April 11th at 4:00 p.m. So far it's only a leak, but since billbil-kun has been right with every one of his predictions so far, we firmly assume that this will be the case again this time.