Obsidian Entertainment just can't stop releasing games at the moment – whether that's Avowed, Grounded 2, or their biggest 2025 release, The Outer Worlds 2.
The sequel to their hit 2019 RPG, the studio that gave us Fallout: New Vegas is back with their wild and wacky art nouveau jaunt through Halcyon.
Now, six years on, The Outer Worlds 2 is finally on its way and we have a confirmed release date – here's everything you need to know.
When is The Outer Worlds 2 release date?
The Outer Wilds 2 will release on 29th October 2025.
This was confirmed during The Outer Wilds 2 direct as part of the June 2025 Xbox Games Showcase.
It will mark the third and final release for Obsidian Entertainment in a busy year, following on from Avowed and Grounded 2.
The game may feature early access for players that pre-order the game, or indeed Xbox Game Pass subscribers, but this hasn't been announced yet.
The Outer Worlds 2 is now available to pre-order for £69.99/$79.99.
Xbox players can purchase it from the Xbox store, as well as any PC players who prefer to buy directly from Xbox.
Most PC players will want to purchase it from Steam, however, though the option to buy it from Battle.net is there too!
Lastly, PS5 players can pre-order the game directly from the PlayStation Store.
At the time of writing, physical copies of The Outer Worlds 2 are not yet available to pre-order.
Which consoles and platforms can play The Outer Worlds 2?
The Outer Worlds 2 is set to drop on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles, and PC.
When it was first revealed, the game was meant to be a PC and Xbox exclusive, but following Xbox's recent move towards getting their games on more platforms, the game was later confirmed for PS5.
The first Outer Worlds was eventually ported to the Switch, but we imagine this one (if it get a Nintendo port at all) will be a Switch 2 affair.
View Green Video on the source websiteWhile The Outer Worlds 2 builds upon the foundations of the first game, there is a huge amount of different, new content to explore.
The game takes place in a new colony, Arcadia, a dictatorship run by the authoritarian Protectorate faction.
The Protectorate has invented a new type of engine known as a skip drive. When these engines begin imploding, they start causing rifts in space-time – it will be your job to figure out what's going wrong and to put a stop to it, with each faction having their own means of stopping it.
There are a few gameplay changes to look forward to, but by far the biggest is a new Fallout-style perks system.
From what we can tell, there will be more than 100 perks to choose from, with many of them having quirky, funny little trade-offs, such as one perk where crouching makes you entirely silent, but standing up cracks your knees and alerts nearby enemies.
Another perk, Serial Killer, lets you collect the hearts of your enemies for a permanent health boost, but the more hearts you collect, the more insane you go – not your everyday RPG perks.
Is there an Outer Worlds 2 trailer?
A gameplay trailer was (finally) released in December last year. Check it out below!
View oEmbed on the source websiteThis was followed up by another gameplay trailer in June 2025, which also revealed the game's release
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