What do you do when your favourite game has gone to shit?

The thing that you had loved, that once defined who you are, now rendered unrecognisable due to the passing of time?

For Otto, this has proven true for her favourite game, Outside. The newly evolved build, humans, utterly dominated the Outside meta, few other builds could even survive the new paradigm. Entire species were quitting en mass as the Holocene Expansion went underway.

But as an octopus player, what made her quit was how utterly boring the new meta was.

There was no point in a multiplayer game without players, no reason to solve a solved puzzle, no fun in a game she no longer recognised.

Though after many years without playing, she hears of the sequel to Outside being released, and so returns to find a world new but familiar, a nostalgic echo of the game she still loved.

However, human players were beginning to appear in this new world as well, threatening to ruin it as they once relentlessly did.

There was only one solution.

Inspired by Tierzoo and Casually Explained (duh)