The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB or Radeon RX 590, 62 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $15.99 at 60 percent off still sits 7 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 37. With it, 46.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Fallout: New Vegas ($9.99, scores 92) outscores it, and so does Fallout 4 ($19.99, scores 54). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 422 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
17.6 hours to finish it, 61 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
178 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game seldom asks anything of the player other than their time. Gunplay amounts to repeatedly clicking on the enemies until the combat encounter is over. The world is full of unlikeable uninteresting characters (with a few exceptions) largely because the world wants to be a farce, and it's just about impossible to be a farce and be genuine at the same time. Exploration involves walking around from waypoint to...
Really tried to like it but I just found it bland and boring. We get it, capitalism is bad, but so are this game's graphics, gunplay, exploration (or lack of) and dialouge. The game is repetitive, unpolished and just shallow. Avoid at full price and only play if you have the time to spare. This is no Fallout NV
Obsidian fixed the remaster this year. Better QoL and expanded leveling makes it more than a decent choice even if it's not the best choice.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1920490/the-outer-worlds-spacer-s-choice-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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