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Outward

Game Details
Developer	Nine Dots Studio
Publisher	Prime Matter
Director	Guillaume Boucher-Vidal
DLC	The Soroboreans The Three Brothers
Platforms	Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Release	March 26th, 2019
Modes	Single-player, Co-operative

Outward is an open-world fantasy RPG developed by Canadian studio Nine Dots Studio, which was released on March 26, 2019. The game can be played in co-operative multiplayer both online and locally (through splitscreen). The game focuses on exploration as well as the concept of the player being a commoner rather than a hero, and features several survival game aspects.

New Player Guide[ | ]

See the New Player Guide for advice for first-time players, and a more in-depth summary of Outward's major systems.

Game Support[ | ]

Please contact the developer, or visit their Discord if you need support.

You can also Submit a Bug Report with the official Google Form.

Version History[ | ]

Outward has two versions: the original edition and the Definitive Edition. This Wiki is based on the Definitive Edition, there are minor changes between versions in terms of balancing, enemies, items, skills and locations.

See Version History for a list of updates to Outward.

DLC[ | ]

The following downloadable content is available for Outward:

Players with the Definitive Edition can enjoy both DLCs without having to purchase them separately. Additionally, their content is more spread out throughout the world in the Definitive Edition.

Gameplay[ | ]

On top of more traditional Action RPG gameplay, Outward includes several survival aspects, such as having to carefully watch one's temperature, hunger, fatigue and Drink. It's also possible for the player character to suffer from such conditions as a cold and other diseases. Losing all of one's health in battle can lead to a variety of consequences, including being imprisoned by enemies or being brought back to safety by an NPC.

The game has an auto-save system, meaning the player is unable to manually save and return to earlier saves upon death or other such setbacks. While the game has a magic system, spells were specifically designed to be challenging to obtain. Similarly, skills and stat increases must all be earned by completing quests for NPCs or paying experts to receive training. Quests have multiple outcomes, and success or failure can permanently affect the game world and how the story progresses, such as a character being convinced to stay in a faction, or an important city being permanently destroyed if the player fails to kill certain characters.

Story[ | ]

See also: Timeline

The game starts with the player character, an inhabitant of the city of Cierzo, getting shipwrecked off the coast of their home city. They had previously inherited a debt called a Blood Price from their ancestors, a debt that must be periodically paid. A Blood Price affects all members of a given family, and the voyage was meant to pay it off. Now penniless, and despite having barely survived the deadly wreck, they are given only five days by the desperate townsfolk to pay off this debt and retain the family holdings.

Once this debt has been paid, or the players home has been seized, the player is given multiple ways to react to their unfair situation and the true story begins. They can free themselves of their bloodline by joining the Holy Mission of Elatt, enter a new spotless bloodline by helping the Blue Chamber Collective, or free themselves of the entire system through the Heroic Kingdom of Levant. These three factions are trapped in a stalemate; the Blue Chamber wants to uphold the current status quo, the Kingdom of Levant wants to overthrow the unfair Blood Price system and let people live for themselves, and the Holy Mission similarly rejects the bloodline and social systems upheld by the Blue Chamber but only because it hinders the forming of a unified front against the common enemy of mankind, an otherworldly force called the Scourge.

After the player joins a faction, the stalemate starts to crack and global events begin to progress. The main part of the story consists of parallel storylines, one for each of these factions, all of which are perspectives of the bigger story. Main quests have time limits, though these are typically at least one month.

Credits[ | ]

Nine Dots Studio[ | ]

Creative Director

Guillaume Boucher-Vidal

Vice-President

Natasha Collin

Programmers

Aurélie Clémençon
Pier-Luc Tremblay
Pierre-Tuan Vallée
Philippe Vincenti
Nathaniel Morasse-Gaudreau

Game Designers

Simon Roof
Sven Mestas
Dominic Carpentier

Intern Game Designer

Mika Rivard

3D Artists

Alexandre Desveaux
Pascal Maltais
Étienne Vanier
Jules Riou

3D Animator

Gabriel Vézina-Thibodeau

Concept Artist

Sharam Sunstrum

Writers

Philip Eloy
Gautier Knittel

Senior QA

Pierre-Alexis Bourgoin
Samuel Pronovost

See Also

Silverjack Audio (Audio/Music)
Prime Matter (Publisher)

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 ! <div style="min-width: 80px;">Developer</div> || [[Nine Dots Studio]]
 |-
-! <div>Publisher</div> || [https://www.deepsilver.com/en/ Deep Silver]
+! <div>Publisher</div> || [https://primematter.gg/ Prime Matter]
 |-
 ! <div>Director</div> || <span style="font-weight: normal;">Guillaume Boucher-Vidal</span>
+|-
+! <div>DLC</div> || <span style="font-weight: normal;">[[The Soroboreans]]<br>[[The Three Brothers]]</span>
 |-
 ! <div>Platforms</div> || <span style="font-weight: normal;">Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4</span>
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 ==Version History==
+Outward has two versions: the original edition and the '''Definitive Edition'''. This Wiki is based on the Definitive Edition, there are minor changes between versions in terms of balancing, enemies, items, skills and locations.
 See [[Version History]] for a list of updates to Outward.
+==DLC==
+The following downloadable content is available for Outward:
+* [[The Soroboreans]]
+* [[The Three Brothers]]
+Players with the '''Definitive Edition''' can enjoy both DLCs without having to purchase them separately. Additionally, their content is more spread out throughout the world in the Definitive Edition.
 ==Gameplay==
-On top of more traditional '''Action RPG''' gameplay, Outward includes several survival aspects, such as having to carefully watch one's [[temperature]], [[hunger]], [[Needs: Tired|fatigue]] and [[thirst]]. It's also possible for the player character to suffer from such conditions as a [[Cold_(Disease)|cold]] and other [[diseases]]. Losing all of one's health in battle can lead to [[Defeat Scenarios|a variety of consequences]], including being imprisoned by enemies or being brought back to safety by an NPC.
+On top of more traditional '''Action RPG''' gameplay, Outward includes several survival aspects, such as having to carefully watch one's [[temperature]], [[hunger]], [[Needs: Tired|fatigue]] and [[Drink]]. It's also possible for the player character to suffer from such conditions as a [[Cold_(Disease)|cold]] and other [[diseases]]. Losing all of one's health in battle can lead to [[Defeat Scenarios|a variety of consequences]], including being imprisoned by enemies or being brought back to safety by an NPC.
 The game has an auto-save system, meaning the player is unable to manually save and return to earlier saves upon death or other such setbacks. While the game has a magic system, spells were specifically designed to be challenging to obtain. Similarly, skills and stat increases must all be earned by completing [[quests]] for NPCs or paying [[Skills#Teachers|experts]] to receive training. Quests have multiple outcomes, and success or failure can permanently affect the game world and how the story progresses, such as a character being convinced to stay in a faction, or an important city being permanently destroyed if the player fails to kill certain characters.
 ==Story==
+{{see also|Timeline}}
-The game starts with the player character, and inhabitant of the city of [[Cierzo]], getting shipwrecked off the coast of their home city. They had previously inherited a debt called a '''Blood Price''' from their ancestors, a debt that must be periodically paid. A Blood Price affects all members of a given family, and the voyage was meant to pay it off. Now penniless, and despite having barely survived the deadly wreck, they are given only five days by the desperate townsfolk to pay off this debt and retain the family holdings.
+The game starts with the player character, an inhabitant of the city of [[Cierzo]], getting shipwrecked off the coast of their home city. They had previously inherited a debt called a '''Blood Price''' from their ancestors, a debt that must be periodically paid. A Blood Price affects all members of a given family, and the voyage was meant to pay it off. Now penniless, and despite having barely survived the deadly wreck, they are given only five days by the desperate townsfolk to pay off this debt and retain the family holdings.
 Once this debt has been paid, or the players home has been seized, the player is given multiple ways to react to their unfair situation and the true story begins. They can free themselves of their bloodline by joining the [[Holy Mission]] of Elatt, enter a new spotless bloodline by helping the [[Blue Chamber]] Collective, or free themselves of the entire system through the [[Heroic Kingdom]] of Levant. These three factions are trapped in a stalemate; the Blue Chamber wants to uphold the current status quo, the Kingdom of Levant wants to overthrow the unfair Blood Price system and let people live for themselves, and the Holy Mission similarly rejects the bloodline and social systems upheld by the Blue Chamber but only because it hinders the forming of a unified front against the common enemy of mankind, an otherworldly force called the [[Scourge]].
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 ==Credits==
+===Nine Dots Studio===
 '''Creative Director'''
 * Guillaume Boucher-Vidal
+'''Vice-President'''
+* Natasha Collin
 '''Programmers'''
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 * Pierre-Tuan Vallée
 * Philippe Vincenti
+* Nathaniel Morasse-Gaudreau
 '''Game Designers'''
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 * Sven Mestas
 * Dominic Carpentier
+'''Intern Game Designer'''
+* Mika Rivard
 '''3D Artists'''
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 * Pierre-Alexis Bourgoin
+* Samuel Pronovost
 '''See Also'''
 * [https://www.silverjackaudio.com/ Silverjack Audio] (Audio/Music)
-* [https://www.deepsilver.com/en/ Deep Silver] (Publisher)
+* [https://primematter.gg/ Prime Matter] (Publisher)
-* [https://www.grip-digital.com/ Grip Digital] (Console Port)
 ==External links==