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It's also a mission where you'll pick up the first of six possible companions who'll join you aboard your ship, the Unreliable, as you dart around Halcyon running errands, taking sides against various factions and hacking, sneaking, shooting, looting and stealing your way to one of the game's three endings. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)

It's a mission that's brought brilliantly to life by witty dialogue peppered with dark humour and punctuated with plenty of the game's often hilariously violent combat, and it's one that genuinely made us pause for quite a bit of time before deciding which way we'd let the power continue to flow. You'll need to head off to the local town of Edgewater to speak to the head of the Saltuna Cannnery, the eminently untrustworthy Reed Tobson, at which point you'll be faced with the moral dilemma of whether to shut down this failing town's power supply in order to complete your objective or to instead switch the power off at a nearby botanical gardens where a bunch of deserters have set up camp to escape a harrowing life of mindlessly canning tuna. Once you've spent a little time in the game's comprehensive character creation suite you'll be whipped off to the colourful environs of Emerald Vale where your first task is to secure a power regulator for the spaceship you'll use to traverse the game's galaxy map, and it's in this very first mission where you'll get a good feeling for the ebb and flow of how the rest of The Outer Worlds plays out. You must therefore set out to gather the components required to revive the rest of the crew of the Hope – the best and brightest of the colonisers – in order to save Halcyon from certain doom. Welles informs you that Halcyon, the colony you were en route to before your ship got lost for over half a century, is now on the verge of complete collapse due to the incompetence of the various megacorporations, known collectively as 'The Board', who run it.

In The Outer Worlds, you assume the role of the Stranger, freshly dethawed from a sixty-year cryo-slumber aboard the colonising ship Hope by the rather mad scientist Phineas Welles – a sort of Dr Emmett Brown in space.

The Outer Worlds download the new for apple