Outer Wilds - Photography Tour (Spoilers) – Rob Haines Creative Space

Outer Wilds is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s a puzzle game about space exploration and mysteries and finding your friends amongst the stars. It’s also one of the most spoiler-prone games ever made; if you learn about Outer Wilds’ secrets, there’s not much magic left for you to discover.

If you have any interest in the game at all, I would strongly recommend playing it yourself before viewing this gallery. If not, or if you’re already familiar with Outer Wilds, I hope you enjoy seeing the universe through my eyes!

All photos were taken on PC with the HD Screenshot and FreeCam mods, and post-processed in Affinity Photo. The following mods were also used for specific effects: Hug Mod, Break On Demand, and Scout Light Mod.

A cosy log cabin amongst pine trees. A many-cratered moon hangs in the sky, and a wisp of smoke wafts up from its surface

Two blue-skinned, four-eyed Hearthians hug on the other side of a roaring campfire.

A view through a stone arch towards pine trees and a wooden village beyond.

A stylised waterfall, crossed by wooden bridges.

An astronaut in a bulky spacesuit hugs a Hearthian child, as a geyser goes off in the background.

A panorama of an observatory and a spaceship launch pad, as the sun comes up.

A close-up of a wooden observatory, with a telescope pointed skywards. A large green gas giant fills the sky above.

A strange purple-blue rock, standing on its narrowest point on an old tree stump. Its surface is pitted and whorled.

A panorama across the Hearthian village, at night. A ramshackle spaceship stands on the launchpad, and wooden platforms wrap around tall pine trees.

A view of the Hearthian village from a few seconds after launch. The observatory can be clearly seen, and the lights of the village glow warm and welcoming.

$Reality fractures beside a campfire. A Hearthian sits, oblivious to the bright blue and white tendrils dancing out from a central point.$

A blue-green planet, with recognisable mountains and a large crater, about to be consumed by a bright blue supernova.

A Hearthian sitting in a rocking chair by a campfire on the moon, in front of a log cabin. The Hearthian village can be clearly seen hanging upside-down on the planet above.

A Hearthian and a spaceship with a spherical bronze cockpit sit at a campfire together.

An astronaut stands at the centre of an alien ruin, as the sun explodes brilliant blue.

An astronaut stands at the centre of an alien ruin, as it is consumed by the onrushing supernova.

A view from space of the snowy pole of a rocky blue planet. A crashed alien spaceship can be seen on one side of the planet, and an explosive meteorite impact lights up the other side.

A path of bright purple crystals leads across the underside of the blue planet's crust, towards a rough settlement of wooden bridges and angular columns.

A path of purple crystals leads into the distance. The world is lit bright amber by an exploding meteorite nearby.

A view through a ruined settlement of wooden bridges and broken down houses to an astronaut, small against the weight of history.

A wide bridge beneath the surface of the planet, hung from the crust by cables. Half of the bridge has broken and fallen into the abyss.

An abstract image, looking down through the geometric barrel of a gravity cannon. Its sides are studded with white crystals, and beyond the launching platform, a black hole seethes.

A pair of glowing square spirals, around an ornate white platform. They appear to be hanging upside-down from the planet's crust.

The shattered remnants of the rocky blue planet, about to be consumed by the bright blue of a supernova. Much of the planet's surface has broken away, to reveal a black hole at its heart.

A ruined tower, lit blue by the onrushing supernova.

The Hearthian spaceship floats in a vast field of debris from the rocky blue planet. The blue fire of the supernova rushes in, and is caught and distorted by a glowing white hole.

The supernova descends upon the white hole and its surrounding debris field. An alien space station can be seen, in the process of burning up in the solar heat.

An astronaut looks across a dusty red planet towards their spaceship. The sun is vast in the sky.

A crashed alien escape pod gleams iridescent in the sun. A blue distress signal shines into the sky beyond it.

A set of neatly-carved stairs winds its way between two red cliff-sides.

A dusty two-lobed plateau of red rock. There's a copse of scrubby trees on the left-hand lobe, and an alien installation of glowing blue symbols on the right-hand lobe, along with a cluster of ruined buildings.

A campsite on the red planet, loomed over by the massive orange sun. An astronaut in an egg-shaped space-suit plays the drums beside the fire.

An ancient alien shuttle stands in a gravity cannon, waiting to launch. The shuttle glows blue, and a tractor beam of glowing squares emerges from below.

An astronaut jetpacks across a cavern towards a gleaming blue tractor beam in a ruined shaft.

An astronaut investigates an ancient alien laboratory. The floor is decorated with overlapping hexagonal patterns, and a tractor beam leads up through the floor, painting the room in blue light.

An abstract shot through an ornate hexagonal skylight, to a flower-shaped pattern of glowing blue cables beyond.

$A campsite on the red planet being consumed by fractures in reality. The egg-shaped astronaut plays the drums, utterly consumed by an inverted blue crack in the universe.$

An alien shuttle encrusted in ice soars away from the red planet. There's a crack in the world around the equator, filled with sand.

The alien shuttle catches the sunlight as it approaches a sandy planet with alien structures protruding from below.

A view of the red planet from the sandy planet. The crashed alien ship is visible, as is the blue distress beacon rising from the surface.

A view of the red planet from a structure on the sandy planet. A pillar of sand connects the two.

A triangular tower on the sandy planet, from above. The roof is transparent glass, and a blue glow can be seen through a lens in the centre. Two large solar arrays emerge from the poles of the planet.

An array of three three-eyed alien masks, amidst a starry darkness. The middle mask has blue light shining from its eyes, and an arc of energy emerging from its base.

A vast piece of alien machinery in the dark. Long glowing-blue cables arc in from off-screen, and a curving path leads to a glowing white pad beyond.

A vast alien mechanism, open to reveal an intricate warp core at its heart.

A spaceship on a landing pad surrounded by a glowing blue tractor-beam. Alien ruins cloaked in green fog stand nearby.

An astronaut standing at the base of a murky green tower, looking up. A tall tractor beam leads to the top, where green-brown clouds gather.

A view from the top of the tower, down to the watery core below.

An astronaut floats beside a vast orange jellyfish. Electricity arcs in a v-shape to frame their encounter.

An astronaut floats beside an orange jellyfish. Electricity arcs between the jellyfish's tentacles, and rises from the glowing core of the planet.

An alien probe launches from a large orbital gravity cannon, around the green gas giant. The cannon is in the process of exploding.

The Hearthian spaceship in deep space, matching pace with the alien probe.

The Hearthian spaceship perches on the icy surface of a comet. A strange bramble-like planet can be seen far away.

An abstract view through the icy tail of a comet, shades of blue emanating from jagged silhouettes.

An astronaut standing beside the body of a dead alien in a grey-blue cave. The alien's space suit is pierced by turquoise crystals.

A dead alien, space suit torn and broken, floating before a dazzling blue explosion of shattered rock.

$A dark green cave, torn by pink-red fractures in reality.$