Island Off Outer Darkness

Island Off Outer Darkness follows the Postman, a new postal worker in a small fishing village on an island in Antarctic waters off the coast of a volcano. Day by day and week by week, they deliver packages to the residents and learn about the island and its townsfolk. As they do, aberrations in space begin to appear. The story explores the grief of community collapse and personal withering, and reveals the effects of the world of Kolob on the isolated village.

The island and its residents

The village is home to people with varied pasts and ties to the island. Pluripotent Fester is a depressive former freedom fighter and political writer for the liberation of Argyre for Pluripotentkind, now living in exile. Brucehilda, a plumber and grandaunt who has lived on the island for over 60 years, is also a doppelgänger of her “twin sister.”

The Postman is a gender-nonspecific youth in their mid-twenties, newly arrived from the mainland. Leonargo is a scholarly sea person from the depths, fished up and localized a few years before the story takes place. Aleks is an awkward farmer who lives on the desolate rock with his devoted partner Bucephalus, who was once his partner and is now a horse with a love of botany and culinary arts. Other townsfolk also live on the island.

Deliveries and daily life

You deliver packages around the island in strand-type delivery gameplay and talk with townsfolk through menus and dialogue inspired by classic RPGs. You can also garden and hybridize over 15 otherworldly crops, or fish in the ocean for more than 60 reelable fish, plants and rocks.

Story and music

The story unfolds through intrigue and mystery as you discover how Kolob affects the isolated fishing village. The game features a 31-track soundtrack composed by CalamityRhapsody.