Watch Out for Fireballs! 489: Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

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Summary

Outer Wilds is a cozy adventure game about the thrill of exploration and the triumph of curiosity. You walk in the footsteps of a long-gone civilization to find your way out of a deadly time loop, ultimately triumphing and being reborn. The game's expansion, Echoes of the Eye, takes a bit of a darker tone. You explore an artificial world haunted by precursors who aren't quite as gone as you've been led to believe.

There are some real design missteps here, and we talk about them, but also talk about what makes Outer Wilds in general work for us in spite of them.

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0:21.6	Thee My name is Gary Butterfield, he him.
0:58.1	My name is Kay Ross, she, her.
1:00.4	And you're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs.
1:02.7	It is a games club podcast.
1:05.0	And this week we are talking about Outer Wild, Echoes of the Eye,
1:08.6	which is an adventure game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Anapurna Interactive for PC and consoles in 2021.
1:17.2	Yeah, part two or three of Start Over Month.
1:19.7	Yeah.
1:20.7	We accidentally made Start Over Month.
1:23.3	Hey, remember when we did theme months about a decade ago?
1:26.9	They're back. This is, yeah, absolute accident. This episode is executive produced by Devin. Big thanks to Devin. Thanks, Devin. Yeah. And this is an expansion. This is an expansion. It's meaty. You know, it justifies talking about it's a big chunk of gameplay. But it's an expansion for Outer Wilds, which we covered back in 2021. Yeah. Episode number 307. And that goes out, I was not announced at that point. I went back and looked at the notes. And it ended with the perennial. We don't know what Mobius is doing next. Yeah. Whatever the future holds.
2:02.1	Yeah.
2:03.7	So this is an expansion.
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