Outriders isn’t Destiny. Outriders isn’t Diablo. Outriders isn’t Borderlands, or Gears of War, or any of the other multitude of things it could easily be compared to. Outriders is simply and unapologetically Outriders. It makes you the hero. It lets you craft the way you want to play. It makes you feel powerful without artificially limiting or taking away that power. And yet it still feels challenging, a high risk, high reward game that can feel soul crushing one moment, and have you whooping and hollering with delight the next.
Outriders‘ story is a good amount of over-the-top sci-fi end-of-the-Earth action. After Earth is ruined by humans, a scant few survivors take the stars and head for Enoch, a planet that is supposed to be the next bastion of life; a place where humanity can restart. Of course, things don’t go as planned, the planet shows a previously unforeseen hostility, and a mysterious anomaly grants a select few powers while eliminating everyone else in its path. Oh, and it wipes out advanced electronics too, rendering them entirely useless. You are an Outrider, one of the frontline forces sent down to the planet ahead of everyone else and left in cryo for decades after its hostility was discovered. You awake to a situation not much better than Earth, with not only the planet’s open aggression, but the remnants of humanity fractured and warring over what little resources are available for survival. With your newfound anomaly po...