Possible Outer Wilds inspiration?

[Duke Alfonso The Great]

Just finished the game, and a big takeaway I had was the similarities in style to Mobius Digital's Outer Wilds. The game's world is like the entire ocean condensed into a couple hundred kilometres, with tropical reefs and New England-esque coastal towns near each other, kinda like the tiny solar system in Outer Wilds. The naming scheme for the game is also kinda similar (Timber Hearth, Giant’s Deep, Dark Bramble compared to Gale Cliffs, Devil's Spine, Stellar Basin). And both game's final areas feature an anglefish enemy, who has unique mechanics that disable it from seeing you unless a specific thing happens.

I'm not trying to say that the developers ripped off Mobius Digital, the games are so different and I think it's completely fine for creative people to take elements or stylistic cues from other projects. Black Salt Games (if they were actually inspired) have remixed these elements in pretty unique and creative ways. Just thought it was an interesting theory to bring up.

[Wylie28]

This is just very common stuff lol