Epic Games at Game Developers Conference 2019 announced that the role-playing shooter The Outer Worlds will be released on the Epic Games Store on PC. This immediately raised a lot of questions regarding the appearance of the game on Steam. Studio Obsidian Entertainment answered them.
So there are two facts. First, The Outer Worlds is not exclusive to the Epic Games Store. The game will also be released on the Windows Store at the same time as consoles. The second is that the project will appear on Steam and other PC platforms only 12 months after the main release.
Recall that The Outer Worlds is a single-player role-playing shooter from Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, Pillars of Eternity dilogy). The development involved Tim Cain (Tim Cain) and Leonard Boyarsky (Leonard Boyarsky), who participated in the creation of the first two Fallout. The action takes place on the outskirts of the galaxy, in the newly founded colony of Alcyone.
βYou awaken from hibernation on a settler ship that went missing en route to Alcyone, the farthest terrestrial colony on the edge of the galaxy, and find yourself at the center of a massive conspiracy that threatens the existence of the entire colony. The character you create will be able to influence the course of this story, exploring the depths of space and meeting numerous factions that are fighting for power. A new unpredictable variable appears in the system of equations of a corporate colony - you, βthe game description says.
The Outer Worlds will be available in 2019 on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. You can read more news about the game here.
Source: 3dnews.ru