Outcast 1999

Is it still worth playing?

Appeal's 1999 action adventure for Windows, remade in 2017 as Outcast: Second Contact. Cutter Slade, a former Navy SEAL, escorts three scientists to Adelpha to repair a probe whose damage has opened a black hole that endangers Earth. You control him around that alien world in third or first person, walking, running, jumping, crawling and climbing onto almost any ledge you can reach. Adelpha is open. After a tutorial area, any region can be reached through travel gates called daokas, and teleport beacons you drop make moving inside a region quick. Its natives treat you according to how you treat them, through a reputation system. A world open in any order, where the locals remember how you behave, still leaves the choices to you today.