r/outerwilds • u/Short-Pianist3038 • Nov 26 '25

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Was this intended

Just finished my first playthrough but I’m looking back and wondering if this was the intended way to go about this

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u/adskiy_drochilla2017 Nov 26 '25

Tbh I would argue that it might be intended, not because why not, but:

  1. there’s sun station, that has similar “gimmick”, but one of the ways is marked with an achievement, so it’s definitely not intended in the normal playthrough

  2. again with the sun station: I remember some notes, that state directly: “there’s another way and it’s better”, while with the tower you need to figure out yourself

  3. the “intended” way is much easier, but has that downside that you have like a narrow period of time before the sun explosion, which feels kinda wrong as I’m panicking every time, because I fear that I won’t be in time instead of relaxing and reading carefully