Definitive Edition and why you shouldn‘t get it
I own hundreds of games, never had a single issue I couldn‘t solve when it came to downloading/installing issues on Steam (and I‘ve had quite a few of those over the years).
Got this game today (together with two others) after a recommendation for Outward, saw the DE and figured why not, sounds good. The other games installed smoothly and without issues. Again, this was a CLEAN install, no mods, no old files, no baggage.
THIS game got „missing files“ first, then „disk error“ which is absolute nonsense, the hardware is brand new and works flawlessly for everything else. Did everything under the sun to troubleshoot this, didn‘t work.
I now have the Outward data stuck in my steamapps/downloading folder. Clearing the download cache hasn‘t worked, deleting the content manually hasn‘t worked, force delete: nothing. Nothing via cmd. Running steam as admin? The seemingly undeletable file simply laughed at me. I was able to delete the outward_def folder and FINALLY managed to get the game out of the steam download queue, but the „normal“ outward folder is still stuck inside /downloading and NOTHING. WORKS.
This is an absolute clusterfuck of files, do not touch. It‘s unlike anything I‘ve seen to date.
I don‘t really want to discuss this but had to flair. I‘m simply trying to warn others who are researching this game before purchasing.