Outsider: After LifeOutsider: After Life

Game Details:  Sci-Fi, 2021

Steam Achievements:  Completed (10/10)

Links:  Moby Games, Steam

Walkthrough Updated:  8/17/2025

Suggested Listening:  Help Me Out (Ash 25)

Outsider: After Life is a short science-fiction point and click adventure game about life after humanity's extinction. You play as HUD-ini, an android that is accidentally brought to life amongst the ruins of a science complex, and you must try to escape your hostile planet and save the universe.

Repairs

Click anywhere to start, and you will end up focusing on a console. Press the power button, then select Self Repair and choose each of the 3 options in turn.

Right Camera

For each of the 3 puzzles, move and rotate the power chip components so they fit together, then slide the complete power chips up to the top. Now you will see 3 protecting covers and 3 chips, and need to pair them up based on their layouts. There are 3 red lasers, and you need to use the deflectors to guide them to the 3 targets.

Fusion Battery

Press each of the lock nodes in the same order as the pulse; there are patterns of length 3, 4, 5 and 6. Now click to fold away each of the 5 lock nodes so they don't collide with each other. For each of the lock nodes, you now need to drag the energy beams to the middle of the circuit, making sure to use each available power node.

Main CPU

Drag the red branching circuits up to the rotating cerebellum disc so the positions of the nodes match correctly. The spotlights will be pointing at an active CPU part with 4 circuits; click on the 4 red circuits so they match those in the active CPU. Adjust the spotlights and repeat this with the other 3 CPU parts. Now you need to adjust the positions of 4 red gates to slow down some light impulses so they reach their sensors at the same time. Drag the eraser around quickly to wipe the blackboard clean. Continue adjusting the positions of 6 more red gates as before.

Back on the console, now select Reboot. Click on the orange connectors to remove the 4 communication cables from the back of the robot Back on your feet. Look at everything, then go right to find the vault door. Rotate the rings so all 3 signals can make it to the center of the door, and you will head up the stairs and outside Fresh air.

Exploration

After seeing the tall beacon, click and you will end up walking to its base. Go left and read the large message. Continue left and look at the large power cables, then examine the door and go through.

Auditorium

Head left and click on the red button to turn on the power. Push the rolling chair, then use the green controls. To calibrate the screen, start by moving the left slider to set the sharpness. Now use the 3 joysticks to move the 3 color channels so they all align with the fixed black markers. Next examine the cinema projector on the right. You need to pull the film around each of the rollers in each section of the projector. You will now see the presentation Echoes of the past. Head outside and you will have to drag a mop around quickly to wipe up the spilled liquid.

Back outside again, head right and use the elevator at the bottom of the beacon.

Beacon

Examine the large round display first. Draw lines between the dots to represent each of the constellations that you see rotating around the screen. Now examine the smaller console to the right. Select the About option and pay attention to the glowing arrows behind the text - press the buttons on the left of the console corresponding to these arrows, then read through the information about the patient Behind the glare. Now select the Repair option. Move the red fragmented sectors into the green allocated sectors. Your game will be interrupted by a text adventure. Follow these steps:

  • Use the walker
  • Enter the tiled room
  • Wash the face
  • Walk away
  • Walk to the red room
  • Take the poison

Now continue to move the red fragmented sectors into the green allocated sectors. Choose the option to Replace Package, then Replace. After the failure occurs, select Return, then choose to Align Satellites.

For each of the first 3 satellites, you must fire the data beam so that it hits all planets, but misses the stars. Aim and click to send out each data beam. Drag the eraser around quickly to wipe the planet clean. For the next 3 satellites, you must fire the data beam so that it hits all planets, but misses the black holes. For the final 2 satellites, you must fire the data beam so that it hits all planets, but misses the stars and black holes. Back at the console, select Shut Down S.O.S. multiplied. Use the console again and select Print to see the alien message, then Shut Down.

Use the elevator to get back down to the valley floor, then walk to the right.

Spaceship

Use the spaceship liftoff control panel. Follow these steps:

  1. Flip the small switch at the top right.
  2. Flip the small switches at the bottom left in this order: 4, 3, 1, 2.
  3. Drag the top right slider up and hold it until the gauge reaches maximum.
  4. Drag the top left slider up and hold it until the two lines overlap perfectly.
  5. Drag and hold the 3 sliders to adjust the black levels until they all reach their red markers.
  6. Pull the main switch at the bottom right down.

The spaceship will now be ready for takeoff Fasten your seat belt. Climb into the spaceship.

Alien Response

You will end up crashing on the alien planet Bad landing. The alien that picks up your head will try to teach you their language. You need to reproduce each of the glyph shapes by dragging components in the grid. You will eventually understand and be put back together Lost in translation.

Click on the other spaceships and machines, including one the aliens won't let you visit at the bottom. Head right to the large black and red pyramidal machine. You will automatically insert a virus into this machine. Now you need to play a series of games where you must push blocks around, avoid the red anti-viruses, and reach the exit.

You will end up holding one of the dead aliens. Carry it to the far right and put it into the small pod. You will then automatically go back to the pyramidal machine. Head to the machine the aliens wouldn't let you visit earlier. You will then go back to the pyramidal machine once more Your own worst enemy. For the next 6 puzzles, drag the power strands close together so they fuse, then make sure they reach the external connection points. The final 5 puzzles are the same, but involve 2 different colored types of strands. The final pink strand will not be able to reach, but you will automatically provide power to allow this to happen The endne ehT.