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Apr 10, 2025

Outbound

Well liked
Reactions
835
Score confidence
very high
Score trend
Platforms
PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch 2 · Switch · Xbox One
Age rating
E
70
Score

The game

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

Developer
Square Glade Games
Platforms
PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch 2 · Switch · Xbox One
Screenshots
The Real Review

Outbound is a cozy survival game with a solid core idea, but a mountain of technical issues is dragging it down. People love the van customization and the relaxed multiplayer vibe, which looks great and plays well with friends. The problem is performance, which is a mess with constant crashes and bugs on most platforms, especially Xbox and Switch 2, and that's what everyone's complaining about. Square Glade Games is getting a lot of heat for the state of the launch. If you can get it on PC or through Game Pass and are patient with patches, the cozy loop might be worth it, but it's hard to recommend at full price right now.

Synthesized from 835 real reactionsvery high confidence
PraisedGraphics · Multiplayer · Gameplay · Value
FaultedPerformance · Difficulty · Story

Sentiment split

56% positive
29% mixed
15% negative

By aspect

gameplay67
value66
multiplayer78
graphics82
performance18
difficulty20
story24

How opinion moved

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Buzz

Aug 1032 reactions over two weeksAug 23

How much people are talking about this game: reactions counted per day they were posted.

Names & topics that came up

Square Glade Gamesdeveloper392× · 8%+Outboundfeature165× · 22%+Twitchplatform59× · 7%+Xboxplatform42× · 2%+PCplatform39× · 3%+Outbounddeveloper35× · 71%+Steamplatform28× · 4%+vanfeature20× · 70%+Switch 2platform19× · 0%+Nintendo Switch 2platform14× · 7%+camper vanfeature13× · 69%+Steam Deckplatform10× · 30%+Game Passplatform10× · 50%+Xbox Game Passplatform10× · 40%+Xbox Series X|Splatform10× · 10%+

Where the signal came from

Social Media
609
Steam
226

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