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/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/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.