As pocket sized, and unfidel as it is, the star system of Outer Wilds is richer and more coherent than SC's. Plus: it has a more interesting flight model, meaningful spacelegs and original story, lore and ways to convey them.There are pleenty of backers having issues with a civilization creating an entire planet covered with a city within 30 years and hoping that those that write that lore will fix the dates.
And the OTHER planet in that system has only ONE city and is littered with metal debris almost everywhere all over the planet.
- System discovered at -50 years
- Corporation begins terraform and cover planet with city -30 years
- Current timeline 00 years
Had they said 500 years since discovery and 300 years of polluting, building and exploiting then i could have bought the lore somewhat.
Outer Wilds reminds me a lot of Mercenary Damocles and Starglider 2. That you can make great things in tiny space, limited financial or technical means with good knowledge of limitations and clever ways to get around them.
Sorry for the OT.