Outriders
Outriders is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by People Can Fly. It centers on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
Outriders is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Outriders builds its science-fiction campaign around guns and power combinations, with meaningful combat choices and unavoidable connectivity costs.
Outriders builds its science-fiction campaign around guns and power combinations, with meaningful combat choices and unavoidable connectivity costs. Guns, forceful powers and class skill trees create build decisions alongside aiming, while equipment modification rewards players who enjoy actively refining combat combinations. The base campaign supports solo progression or three-player cooperation, offering flexible participation around combat and equipment growth without importing separately sold expansion systems. Cities, forests, mountains and deserts give the Enoch expedition geographic variety, while the mysterious signal maintains a science-fiction direction focused on hazardous travel. PS5 documents three-player online sessions and DualSense vibration but explicitly offers no offline mode, leaving solo access network-dependent; current-patch stability has not been measured. This assessment covers the base release, not Worldslayer's additional progression. Continuous internet is required, with no guarantee of service response or current-build frame rates.
Strengths
- Powers and gear modification create build choices alongside aiming and positioning.
- Contrasting environments give the expedition geographic variety and support its hostile science-fiction premise.
Weaknesses
- Base progression revolves around combat and equipment, and solo play remains online-only.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy skill builds, equipment modification and solo or small-group science-fiction shooting.
Play notes: This assessment covers the base release, not Worldslayer's additional progression. Continuous internet is required, with no guarantee of service response or current-build frame rates.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The base campaign supports solo progression or three-player cooperation, offering flexible participation around combat and equipment growth without importing separately sold expansion systems. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Guns, forceful powers and class skill trees create build decisions alongside aiming, while equipment modification rewards players who enjoy actively refining combat combinations. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Cities, forests, mountains and deserts give the Enoch expedition geographic variety, while the mysterious signal maintains a science-fiction direction focused on hazardous travel. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension PS5 documents three-player online sessions and DualSense vibration but explicitly offers no offline mode, leaving solo access network-dependent; current-patch stability has not been measured. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- People Can Fly
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release date
- Apr 1, 2021
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genreRole-Playing
- Tags
- Science FictionPuzzle SolvingSlow BurnLocal Co-opInvestigationStory-drivenExplorationMain Story 10–20 HoursThird PersonSolo-friendly3D GraphicsLinear Levels
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideApr 1, 2021
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