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jcranmer on May 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

The Outer Wilds does have a pretty similar theme. Without spoiling anything, you are a newly-minted explorer trying to uncover the history of the advanced precursor race that previously inhabited your solar system. (Any more details would spoil the plot, unfortunately!)

It's lower scale (single solar system instead of galactic), and it's definitely based on lower-tech civilization trying to understand dead, higher-tech civilization rather than trying to uncover long-last past of your own species, though.

simmons on May 25, 2022 [–]

Thanks for the suggestion! That does sound like an interesting game, and I'll add it to my list.

I also get the impression that the 1986 game Starflight may have a little bit of this, but I've only barely started playing.

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