The Outer Worlds 2 still manages to be funny, despite everything

When I first played The Outer Worlds, I was immediately hooked by the game’s irreverent, Fallout-esque sense of humor. The game was full of lively dialogue, character diaries, and propaganda posters which painted a picture of a corporate dystopia that was simultaneously bleak and amusing. My biggest fear going into The Outer Worlds 2 was that the game — through no fault of its own — wouldn’t be nearly as funny as its predecessor. When the original game launched in October 2019, a carton of eggs could be purchased with pocket change, human employees weren’t being replaced with AI en masse, and we hadn’t yet been through a years-long pandemic that various public figures attempted to paint as a hoax.