Outernauts is a social role-playing strategy game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Electronic Arts, originally released in open beta in July 2012 as an Adobe Flash title on Facebook. It marked a notable departure for Insomniac, serving as both the studio's first social game and its first release on a non-Sony platform. Players explore an outer space setting, capturing and battling alien creatures in a format reminiscent of monster-collecting RPGs. The game later moved away from Facebook ahead of a planned port to iOS and Android. The Facebook version was retired at the end of January 2014, and the game was shut down entirely on February 1, 2016. Despite its relatively brief lifespan, Outernauts represented a significant experiment for Insomniac Games in the social and mobile gaming space.
