Welcome!
Oddwords is a quasi-journalistic site founded in 2018, created to document and discuss the various games and events related to the Oddworld series, its community, and its developers. While most of the content on the site deals with Soulstorm, especially its pre-release material, you can also find game critiques, interviews, articles about various more or less known aspects of the series, a few surveys conducted by me, and even a couple of fanfics. I hope you enjoy your stay!
Featured posts
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The History of Oddworld Inhabitants: The Second Ten Years (2004-2014)
Exploring OWI's little-known era during and after the release of Stranger's Wrath.
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Interview with David Fried
One of Stranger's Wrath's game- and narrative desginers shares his thoughts on the game, Soulstorm, Warcraft and other topics.
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Interview with Sammi McEwan
The author of the new Mudos-map found in Abe's Origins shares her experience and some details about the map.
Featured Non-Oddwords Oddworld Content
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Escape from RuptureFarms 1029
A Text-Adventure Game by Nemin
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R.E.L.I.V.E.
Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus on modern systems
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The Magog on the March
An Independent Source of Everything Oddworld
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The Oddworld Library
A comprehensive encycopledia of all things Oddworld
Resources
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Starters' Guide
A comprehensive guide for beginners and for people who wish to know more about the series and its history alike.
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Timeline (Updated: 2023-12-20)
A calendar of all the events that happened since 2016.
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The Found Archives
Every image released in the Lost Archives project in a convenient list.
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Dear Alf, Please Get Your Facts Together!
A list of (nearly) all Dear Alf questions and answers.
Cut content
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Necrum Burial Grounds
A list of OWI's abandoned projects.
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Abe's Quest
The most absurd Oddworld game you have never heard of before.
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The Mythology of Unreleased Games
A short cautionary tale about SligStorm, Fangus Klot, the Hand of Odd and not knowing when to let go.
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So what the heck is a Squeek anyway?
Discussing Oddworld's mysterious third hero.
Newest posts
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The Child's Sacrifice
A deal is struck with the devil. - An Oddworld Fanfiction
2025.06.15.
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Sleeches - Revolution or Devolution?
Exploring the behind-the-scenes for Soulstorm's new enemy type.
2025.02.08.
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Stuff I Wish to See in the Next Game(s)
Some concepts and ideas I would like to see in Oddworld #3 and beyond.
2025.02.02.
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Soulstorm - Story Rundown
A critique/review of Soulstorm's plot
2024.09.01.
Fandom-related Statistics
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State of the Fandom
Another fandom activity report
2022.01.11.
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Dwindling numbers
A fandom activity report
2021.07.05.
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The Second Fandom Survey
Two years after my previous survey, it was time to question the community once more.
2021.05.31.
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Favorites based on the SW giveaway
During the last giveaway OWI asked people to name their favorite game. I collected these responses.
2020.07.18.
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Fandom survey
What do the fans think and know about the series?
2019.04.20.
General Oddworld Content
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The Child's Sacrifice
A deal is struck with the devil. - An Oddworld Fanfiction
2025.06.15.
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Stuff I Wish to See in the Next Game(s)
Some concepts and ideas I would like to see in Oddworld #3 and beyond.
2025.02.02.
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What comes next?
Summarizing what we know of the next Oddworld and OWI-related projects.
2024.08.23.
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Lunar Eclipse
Queen Margaret learns the truth - A short horrror fanfic.
2024.06.18.
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The History of Oddworld Inhabitants: The Second Ten Years (2004-2014)
Exploring OWI's little-known era during and after the release of Stranger's Wrath.
2024.02.06.
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No Love For Old Games
Two games, twenty-five years, two wildly different outcomes.
2023.11.24.
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The Fly and the Worm
A short story about two unlikely creatures meeting underground.
2023.05.30.
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The Wanderer And The Hermit
A fateful meeting between two outcasts - An Oddworld Fanfiction
2022.01.22.
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Museum
A look through my memes over the years. The page is massive, don't use mobile traffic.
2021.05.20.
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Abe's Quest
The most absurd Oddworld game you have never heard of before.
2021.02.20.
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Abe's Incredible Oddysee
A long-form blog post reviewing Abe's Oddysee
2020.08.24.
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Munch on the Operating Table
A long-form essay/critique about Munch's Oddysee
2020.08.18.
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So what the heck is a Squeek anyway?
Discussing Oddworld's mysterious third hero.
2020.03.20.
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The Mythology of Unreleased Games
A short cautionary tale about SligStorm, Fangus Klot, the Hand of Odd and not knowing when to let go.
2020.02.16.
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Reviewing Abe's Origins
My thoughts about the new Artbook.
2020.02.07.
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Interview with David Fried
One of Stranger's Wrath's game- and narrative desginers shares his thoughts on the game, Soulstorm, Warcraft and other topics.
2020.02.06.
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Dear Alf, Please Get Your Facts Together!
A list of (nearly) all Dear Alf questions and answers.
2020.01.23.
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Necrum Burial Grounds
A list of OWI's abandoned projects.
2019.10.13.
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Loading screen messages
A list of messages you sometimes see, while NnT is loading.
2019.07.18.
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NnT's LCD screens
All LCD messages in NnT.
2019.07.02.
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AO's LCD messages
All LCD messages in Abe's Exoddus.
2019.07.02.
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AE's LCD screens
All LCD messages in Abe's Oddysee.
2019.07.02.
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The Found Archives
Every image released in the Lost Archives project in a convenient list.
2019.04.20.
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Thoughts
Some random facts, I thought are worth sharing.
2019.02.01.
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The Oddysee-movie
Did you know that there was an Oddysee movie planned before the game?
2019.01.26.
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Facility trivia
Interesting facts about the placees Abe visits in Exoddus.
2019.01.12.
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Cut content
Some interesting things cut from the games.
2019.01.05.
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Molluck
About the meanest boss in the world.
2019.01.03.
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Repercussions
About what Abe's actions have caused.
2018.12.14.
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Molluck on Trial
About my favorite oddworld artwork.
2018.12.12.
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The Schism
About one of the most important events in Oddworld's history.
2018.12.05.
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Cities
About how I envision cities on Oddworld.
2018.12.03.
Soulstorm-related Content
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Sleeches - Revolution or Devolution?
Exploring the behind-the-scenes for Soulstorm's new enemy type.
2025.02.08.
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Soulstorm - Story Rundown
A critique/review of Soulstorm's plot
2024.09.01.
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Magog Takeover: A Confusing and Confused Narrative
My thoughts about the recent social media event regarding the 'Magog Cartel takeover' of OWI.
2024.01.03.
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The Transcript of Soulstorm's Cutscenes
In case you wanted to quote something quickly.
2021.04.10.
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Soulstorm's achievements
Discussing Soulstorm's recently leaked achievements.
2021.03.31.
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Social Media - 10 days later
Ten days have passed, let's see if my concerns about the media campaign were legitimate or not.
2020.11.30.
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Anti-Social Media
Some thoughts about Soulstorm's social media campaigns.
2020.11.21.
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Piecing together Soulstorm's story
In this post I'll attempt to make sense of what all the trailers told us.
2020.06.13.
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Interview with Sammi McEwan
The author of the new Mudos-map found in Abe's Origins shares her experience and some details about the map.
2019.12.22.
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Timeline (Updated: 2023-12-20)
A calendar of all the events that happened since 2016.
2019.11.17.
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Comparing Soulstorm's graphics to NnT and AE
How does Soulstorm's graphics hold up compared to Exoddus and New 'n' Tasty?
2019.07.02.
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New Soulstorm information dump
Several gaming news sites wrote about Soulstorm. I collected the important bits out here.
2019.05.13.
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Lorne Lanning Q&A
On February 16th Lorne Lanning held a one hour Q&A on the official Discord. You can read the questions and his answers here.
2019.02.17.
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What we know about Soulstorm? (Outdated)
An outdated pile of information about Soulstorm.
2019.01.21.
Blog
Archive
Below you can find a list of posts that largely concern pre-release speculation from my part and so provide little relevant information these days.
Reveal list
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Soulstorm at IGN again
Similarly to 2019, Soulstorm has once again appeared in an IGN stream. Here are my thoughts.
2021.03.26.
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The GamesRadar Stream
My thoughts about the recent GamesRadar stream.
2021.03.26.
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The State of Play Stream
My thoughts about the recent stream that also revealed the release date.
2021.02.26.
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Epic Games Stream Trailer
Things to take note of in the new trailer.
2021.02.11.
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The Game Awards Trailer
Soulstorm appeared for a minute on the Game Awards. Here are my thoughts.
2020.12.11.
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My thoughts about 'Molluck Returns'
In this post I explain my thoughts about the new PS5 trailer
2020.09.19.
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Things I noticed in 'Molluck Returns'
Spotting a few things in the newest PS5 trailer.
2020.09.16.
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PS5 Addendum
Some additional thoughts about the PS5 footage.
2020.06.12.
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The PS5 Soulstorm Footage
Analysing Oddworld's new teaser trailer that aired on the PS5 stream.
2020.06.11.
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IGN Soulstorm gameplay
My thoughts about the IGN Soulstorm gameplay footage.
2019.06.13.
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E3 Soulstorm footage
The stuff I noticed in the Soulstorm footage released at E3.
2019.06.09.
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GDC
My thoughts about the GDC presentation.
2019.03.20.
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EGX 2017
A transcription of Lorne Lanning's EGX2017 talk about Soulstorm.
2019.01.01.