On May 1, 2025, Xbox announced that they were increasing the prices on their hardware and would soon start to release first-party titles at $80. That day has come and the first title from Microsoft to be hit with an $80 price tag across all platforms is The Outer Worlds 2.
This is certainly an odd pick for the first $80 Xbox title but I suppose it had to start somewhere, right? While I and many others enjoyed The Outer Worlds (both times it was released), it didn't exactly set the world on fire. It isn't exactly a franchise that has the selling power of a Gears of War or Fable.
Still, here we are with The Outer Worlds 2 being the first $80 title from Microsoft. That price goes up to $100 for the Premium Edition, or $100 for the basic edition if you live in Canada.
Microsoft had a big show dedicated entirely for The Outer Worlds 2 on Sunday. You can read about that full reveal if you happened to miss the stream of it. Otherwise, there's a new trailer and some basic game details below.
The Outer Worlds 2 pulls you into Arcadia – a colony isolated from the rest of the system, fought over by power-hungry factions, and on the brink of near to mid-term collapse by rifts forming in the space around it. With the future up for grabs, survival might depend on your choices, your alliances… and maybe a few well-placed deals along the way. Featured in the Xbox Games Showcase and expanded in today’s The Outer Worlds 2 Direct, this bigger, bolder sequel builds on everything fans loved about the original: deeper RPG systems, sharper satire, and wildly reactive storytelling. With new companions, enhanced movement and combat, science weapons and armor, and full character customization, The Outer Worlds 2 puts you at the center of a chaotic struggle for Arcadia’s future. Launching October 29, 2025, it hands you the chaos and asks: what are you going to do with it? The world needs a hero. You’ll have to do.
