Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. It first released for Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 before releasing for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2022. The game features the player character exploring a solar system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that ends with the star going supernova. Wikipedia
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Caracciolo, Marco. “Materiality, Nonlinearity, and Interpretive Openness in Contemporary Archaeogames.” Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 13, no. 1 (2022): 29-47.
Evans, Monica. ““Should My Best Prove Insufficient, We Will Find Another Way”: Time Loop Mechanics as Expressions of Hope in Digital Games.” In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 198-209. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.