The Outer Wilds developers are making a new game

Mobius Digital are "hard astatine work" connected it

This is conscionable a speedy write-up, due to the fact that it's extracurricular bureau hours, but... Mobius Digital, creators of wondrous virtual orrery and gravitational stageplay Outer Wilds, are making a caller game.

The "announcement" takes the signifier of a throwaway enactment successful an different unremarkable Outer Wilds update changelog. Here it be:

This insignificant spot is present retired connected Steam only, but volition beryllium brought to each different platforms but Nintendo Switch successful precocious May. If you’re not connected Steam, don’t worry, you’re not missing out! This is simply a insignificant spot chiefly for adding a mates folks to the credits and fixing 2 PC-only bugs: clicking retired of the crippled disabling definite inputs (such arsenic the cardinal for the ship’s fastener on), which affected streamers successful particular, and diagonal question being faster than mean with rodent and keyboard.

Why stagger the releases similar this? It’s to summation the accidental that, if immoderate atrocious bugs connected Steam slipped done testing, they’ll get caught and fixed earlier the merchandise of the different platforms. This is nary shadiness to our QA testers, we’re conscionable trying to beryllium other hazard averse and blimpish with the resources we enactment toward Outer Wilds since our caller crippled is our priority!

After the accustomed bullet-point round-up of additions and fixes, the changelog station adds that "there are nary much large updates planned for Outer Wilds oregon Echoes of the Eye due to the fact that we are hard astatine enactment connected our adjacent game."

So then. Well now. What could they beryllium up to? Another abstraction game? Further attempts astatine simulating quantum mechanics and different elements of "post-classical" physics? I americium each agog. Thanks to scholar Faxmachinen for spotting it and passing it on.