The Outer Worlds 2 preload is up on Xbox

Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds 2 preload is now up for Xbox Series consoles and Xbox on PC, and it’s a sizeable download.

The Outer Worlds 2 preload weighs in at:

• Xbox Series is 79.49 GB
• Xbox on PC is 77.30 GB

The title will release on October 29th, 2025, and having the preload ready this often is a decently good sign. The title will release on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Steam, and Xbox on PC. It is of course a Day One Game Pass title.

I got to play it back at Gamescom, playing through the same build again on my home console:

Obsidian Entertainment is well-known for the quality of its writing. From what I’ve seen, through all the various options I chose and changed up through this prologue, they’ve still got the chops. During character creation, you’ll choose one of a handful of backgrounds. These greatly influence how others perceive your character. Whether I was a bumbling buffoon who lucked into success or an outlaw who ignored the rules, it colored every major conversation.

I did start to see the skeleton of how choice worked after my third playthrough. Each scenario has a few ways it can go. Depending on your background and/or skill sets, you can generally get one of a few outcomes. If you want to turn off security and stop mechs, then being a hacker might help, or the speech skill was key to getting a guard to lower a bridge without tipping off security. There were skill, item, and knowledge checks throughout, and it worked well.

Most players will go through the game one time, never know how differently things can go, and it will be fine. In my position of playing this demo, which can be completed in either an hour if you want to see everything or 15 minutes if you skip through, it was an interesting peek behind the game development curtains. They do an excellent job of making it feel like your choices are unique and matter, despite them being different means to similar ends.

That story revolves around mysterious anomalies being torn into reality by the game’s skip-drive technology. Your prologue mission is to infiltrate an enemy base, zealots who believe in absolutes (kinda like your Earth Directorate). An agent on assignment for years helps you through the facility, leading to a bombastic conclusion that I now have to spend months waiting to see the results of.

You can read the rest of the preview at the link above.