The game has been in development since at least May 2016 , when Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart mentioned that a small number of people in the studio which included Cain and Boyarsky were working on " something completely new " in the Unreal Engine during an interview with Game Pressure . Obsidian later revealed the game 's development in 2017 . In December 2017 , Private Division announced the project as their first slate of published games . It was publicly announced at The Game Awards 2018 in December , and will be released for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One on October 25 , 2019
The Game Awards 2018
The Game Awards 2018
The Outer Worlds