[STEAM] The Outer Worlds 2 Review: Obsidian’s sequel does little to stand out in the RPG genre

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It’s hard to classify a game like The Outer Worlds 2.

Developer Obsidian is once again presenting the series as an RPG. On paper, it ticks enough boxes to earn the category — you gain experience, level up, upgrade your stats, gain perks, and get to pick between dialogue options that can ramificate into different outcomes. After hitting the end credits, however, I can’t shake off the feeling that my trip to the Arcadia star system didn’t leave much of an impact on it, and vice versa.

The premise of the sequel plays a similar tune to its predecessor. You’re thrust into a space colony overtaken by a megacorporation, working under the banner of the Earth Directorate. This entity is meant to bring a semblance of order amid clashing factions, tyrannies, and corporate greed. After an important mission goes awry, you’re tasked with assembling a crew to hunt down a specific target, while also examining the presence of rifts, which are anomalies that are appearing everywhere in the solar system, threatening their surroundings.

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