How many people are playing Outer Wilds right now?

Outer Wilds has 572 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 1,297 and an all-time peak of 7,936 on Sept 2021.

What is the all-time peak player count of Outer Wilds?

7,936 concurrent players on Sept 2021.

When was Outer Wilds released on Steam?

Outer Wilds was released on Steam on 18 Jun 2020.

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Outer Wilds

GameApp ID 753,640by Mobius DigitalReleased 18 Jun 2020

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App ID753,640

Release date18 Jun 2020

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Install size10.9 GB

TypeGame

Last update6 Oct 2025

Steam DeckVerified

DLC1

DeveloperMobius Digital

Changenumber37,946,599

Price$24.99

Packages1

PublisherAnnapurna Interactive

SystemsWindows

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Outer Wilds

Mobius Digital·Annapurna Interactive
Released 18 Jun 2020·App 753640

Steam user reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

95.6%· 107.5K reviews

Recent Very Positive · 95%

SteamPeaks Rating

95.4 Overwhelmingly positive

Recent 30 days 93.0

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11 announcements · from Outer Wilds’s Steam news feed

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Everything Updates2 In-game events1 Releases1 Community7

Community18 Aug 2026New Posters Available NowHello Travelers, New posters are now available! You might be saying “Hey, these look familiar.” And you’d be right! We worked closely with the folks at Cook & Becker to bring you much bigger versions of the A4 national park-themed posters based on the solar system’s major planets. Once again, these are illustrated by Mobius Digital artist Ian Jacobson. They’re available individually or as a set…

Outer Wilds Events · SteamPeaks

Published	Kind	Announcement	Build
5 years ago	News	Legacy Branch Announcement! Accessing the Legacy Branch Hello travelers! Firstly, thank you all for making fun and engaging content for fans of the game! We wanted to share with you that we are releasing a legacy branch of Outer Wilds because Patch 8 introduces a massive overhaul to our input system which could make mods from previous versions of the game unplayable. To ensure everyone can continue using their favorite mo…	—
8 years ago	Community	Hearthian Introduction ( this is a crosspost ) Hello everyone! Now that we have zipped through the solar system, we’re going to take a look at the playable characters alien race, the Hearthians. Hearthian Introduction The alien race known as the Hearthians are an amphibious race with four eyes, little sense of self preservation, and great curiosity for the outside world. Their home planet is Timber Hearth, which was…	—
8 years ago	Community	Brittle Hollow...Rocks!!! (this is a crosspost ) Hello everyone! We’re making our way to Brittle Hollow in this week’s developer update. Meaningful Play Our writer Kelsey Beachum will be presenting a talk at Meaningful Play this year, October 11 - 13th. This talk will address the challenges of writing for an open-world game and in telling a linear story through a nonlinear delivery. This would be an excellent talk to li…	—
8 years ago	Community	E3 + VFX Development Update ( this is a crosspost from the Mobius website ) Hello everyone! Before we get into our development update, we’d like to recap our E3 experience. E3 Recap We won one of the Rock Paper Shotgun’s Editors Choice Award 2018 and received two nominations from Game Informer for Best in Show 2018 and PC Gamer for Best of E3 2018. Thank you to all of you who made it out to E3 and for all the enthusiastic…	—