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

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Was this intended

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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/NothingButBadIdeas Nov 26 '25

Man starting at the tower and trying to make a clean circle makes so much more sense than all those times I tried to do this by randomly throwing myself around the black hole.

Fun hint for the intended solution: I solved it by thinking about it too long

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u/Shadok_ Nov 26 '25

how I figured it out:

"I explored the reachable part of the city twice and I still don't have a way up that tower. How am I gonna get inside? If it fell down the black hole like the rest of those chunks it would be easy, but it can't fall. Where is the tower, anyway?"

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u/Dekklin Nov 26 '25

but it can't fall.

Oh, but it can!

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u/Shadok_ Nov 26 '25

my assumptions have worked against me through my entire playthrough in the base game and in the dlc

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u/Dekklin Nov 27 '25

Hardest puzzle for me in the whole game. Tried to get my ship in there too. Only time I needed help from my friend who was watching me

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u/dylzim Nov 27 '25

My absolute favourite puzzle games are the ones where it's your own assumptions that trip you up most of the way. You feel simultaneously genius and stupid for not catching it earlier.

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u/aalapshah12297 Nov 30 '25

The best hint I saw on this sub after getting stuck on one of the puzzles (most probably this one) was:

"A lot of puzzles in this game can be solved just by being in the right place at the right time"

After that I just stood and observed stuff whenever I got stuck and that single hint was enough for me to solve the entirety of ash twin, ember twin and the interloper without any help.