Outriders is a 2021 online-only cooperative action role-playing shooter game developed by People Can Fly and published by Square Enix.

[8] During the middle of the 21st century, Earth has passed the point of no return as climate disasters grow more frequent and dangerous, surpassing humanity's ability to mitigate them.

One of the Outriders, having survived exposure to the Anomaly, is mortally wounded during the fighting and is put back into cryostasis by Shira Gutmann, an ECA engineer.

The Outrider is awakened from cryostasis 31 years later in 2190, where they find that the ECA's attempted colonization has failed, with the Anomaly destroying all the colony's advanced technology and trapping all the colonists within the confines of a single mountain valley.

In addition, people who have survived exposure to the Anomaly like the Outrider have become "Altered", mutated humans possessing supernatural powers.

Shira then explains that she and scientist Dr Abraham Zahedi are trying to trace the source of a mysterious signal originating from the other side of the Anomaly.

Zahedi reveals that he possesses the last satellite uplink capable of connecting to the Flores, which remains in orbit with half of the colony's supplies.

Taking Zahedi and several companions, the Outrider traverses a number of hazardous environments and is finally able to breach the Anomaly and reach the other side, only to find a vast, barren desert littered with derelict human installations but inhabited by a humanoid native species violently hostile to humans, which they call "Ferals".

Left with no choice, the surviving Pax converted themselves through a ritual into a form capable of violence to resist and wiped out the Caravel colonists.

However, this form removes their ability to reason and behave peacefully, which in turn unleashes the unbalanced energies of the planet as the Anomaly across Enoch without the Pax to tend to it.

The Ferals assault the Caravel, but the Outrider and their group are able to fight them back, allowing Zahedi to signal the Flores to launch its cargo pods.

Despite recovering the remaining cargo pods from the Flores, the ECA is still in danger due to the Anomaly expanding at an exponential rate, which is causing destructive snowstorms to sweep across all of Enoch.

They recover Salvador's research but are forced to flee when Commander Ereshkigal, who wants the storms to cull humanity, arrives.

Atuma reveals that the obelisk maintaining the safe zone is on the verge of failure, but there is another one called the Root Shard that may be able to save humanity.

Though humanity was saved, the Outrider decides to delve into the depths of Tarya Gratar to find a way to permanently end the threat of the Anomaly despite Atuma's warnings that such forbidden knowledge may drive them mad.

In summary, he wrote that "it doesn’t innovate in any huge way and its many flaws are tough to ignore, but Outriders is a blast from a simpler past".

[23] GameSpot's Phil Hornshaw gave the game an 8/10, praising that the "combination of cover shooting, loot shooter, co-op, and superpowers create intense tactical combat".

[27] Tom Bramwell of The Guardian felt the game captured "exactly what makes the genre tick", praising the guns as being universally fun to use.

[30] Jordan Forward of PCGamesN gave the game a 7/10 writing: "Outriders' fast-paced combat and imaginative sci-fi setting make it a journey worth taking.

[41] It's unclear if Outriders was a commercial success or not, because while Square Enix stated it was "on track to become the company's next major franchise", People Can Fly have yet to receive royalties as of August 2021, leading them to suggest it hasn't yet turned a profit.