animal well is neat and a well-made game but I do not understand why anyone has likened it to Outer Wilds

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animal well is neat and a well-made game but I do not understand why anyone has likened it to Outer Wilds
there's meta puzzles, but where OW is about understanding an intricate, cohesive series of mysteries (about, in part, the joy of unraveling mysteries), Animal Well is more like an escape room.
video game reviewer: a world! you can explore??????? and learn about! it's outer wilds.