My spaceship has taken off. This ought to be cause for celebration, a moment that engenders cheers from mission control. Except there’s a problem: I m not in the cockpit. I d been looking at the ship s log in the back and considering my next journey when suddenly the whole ship just rose up. Oh no, I say, as the sensation of free fall kicks in. No no no no no. I run back to the cockpit and look around. The ground outside is still there, the trees and the grass. This is odd, because it s also pitch black – we re definitely in space. This is when I realise: My ship didn t take off. The entire island did.
This is space exploration game Outer Wilds. And I have no time to understand how the whole island on which I’ve parked has been launched into space, because it s already falling back down. I need to take off, right now. (more…)