Outer Wilds is an Action-Adventure, Open-world, Space, Sci-fi, and Single-player video game where the player can play from a first-person perspective, offered by Mobius Digital for multiple platforms. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an astronaut, and his main purpose is to explore the mysteries of the solar system.

The player sets a camp on the planet of the solar system, and the game runs only for twenty-two minutes, where the sun goes supernova after the limited time, and the solar system splits into pieces. After the end of the game, the player starts the journey from the same point where he left with the altered environment of the galaxy, for example, the two planets circling so near to each other that sand from one planet channels over to the cover of the other planet, but later in the 22 minutes time frame changes that make the surface of one unavailable for the second.

Within 22 minutes of gameplay, the player needs to find out how astronauts come on the immerse universe, why the sun will going to distort, the mysteries of the alien race that wants to rule the world and several secrets that will help the player to proceed further. The player contains oxygen meter and health, and the player will die if both of these runs out. The game has core features, such as Different Mysteries, First-person Perspective, Health and Oxygen Meters, Twenty-two Minutes Gameplay, Space Exploration, and Real-time Strategy.