(One knock against the DLC and The Outer Worlds in general is the maddening Fast Travel system locked to a map that did not get a specific enough polish for consoles the cursor often refuses to lock onto a fast-travel spot. There's plenty to do, see, and explore, all without the need of returning to your ship and traipsing across the galaxy. Everything you need to do is restricted to the title world, a small colony of floating islands connected by bridges. While the new DLC does a fantastic job of continuing the humor and sharp storytelling of the base game, it's also a nicely self-contained murder mystery. And yes, while it can get annoying discovering yet another set of footprints going in the same direction you've been running for the last 750 meters, it's basically foolproof otherwise. It's a rather simple new addition to the DLC but it works wonders for freshening up the same-old approach to side content like this. An NPC will soon explain the situation to you and give you a new device in short order, one which you'll use to discover clues and advance your progress through the story. While I'll keep the details of the mystery off the screen here (it's a murder mystery, after all better to go into it cold as a corpse in the vacuum of space), I will mention a fun new wrinkle to the DLC.

The payoff in the end was absolutely worth it.) It opens up 'Dumb' dialogue that adds extra layers of silliness throughout the game, and I cannot recommend it strongly enough. You can do this by lowering your Intelligence stat during character creation. (And here's as good a place as any to mention that I continued my 'Dumb' playthrough from my main game. That all plays out in straightforward but darkly humorous fashion via your introduction to this quest.

It's this deadly off-screen drama that draws your Captain-for-Hire character into the mystery.

Halcyon Helen, the star of aetherwave dramas who's beloved far and wide across the known universe, finds herself in hot water both on and off-screen. Like being thrown into a hard-boiled but slightly overcooked space-detective story, 'Murder on Eridanos' sees art imitating life. Image via Obsidian Entertainment, Private Division

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