The Outer Worlds is created by Fallout's original creators, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. It came out as an Epic Game Store exclusive last year! And since then, it's been racking up awards left and right. It has won Game Critics Awards Best Original Game (2019), D.I.C.E. Awards Role-Playing Game of the Year (2020), SXSW Gaming Awards Most Promising New Intellectual Property (2020), Nebula Awards for Game Writing (2020), and GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Video Game (2020). This is, of course, on top of everything it's been nominated for.
On Metacritic, it received a critic Metascore of 82, and a user Metascore of 73 - both really good scores for Metacritic, ya'll.
As of Oct 23, 2020 - a year from original launch - The Outer Worlds has come out on Steam and GOG! And what's more,The Outer Worlds is 50% off on Steam right now! The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon, the first expansion, launches on Steam and GOG simultaneously.
Personally, I'm hyped for the Steam launch - not that I have anything against EGS. I have the EGS launcher, but I just prefer Steam for screenshots, overlays, and community features.