Latest about Avowed
Avowed takes Skyrim's approach to combat and evolves it, allowing players to "build the character they want to play who fights the way they want to fight"
Interview Interview | Obsidian discusses Avowed's "classless" combat system and what that means for your playstyle-of-choice
Avowed's focus on choice and consequence means "most players won't discover 100% of what you've built for them", but Obsidian wouldn't have it any other way
Interview Interview | In combat, narrative and exploration, Avowed is dialing the choice-factor up to 11
Avowed is set in Pillars of Eternity's world, but Obsidian says you don't need to have played its older CRPG
News The new game draws things like spells from Obsidian's older game
Obsidian wants Avowed to be a "challenging" RPG that's more complex than "black-and-white, good-versus-evil morality"
News Breaking away from the moral binary
Avowed lead reveals there's "no one perfect build" in Obsidian's classless RPG: "There's gonna be choice and consequence for what you kit out”
News So you can mix and match the guns, wands, and shields however you want
Avowed's commitment to ubiquitous player choice could make it 2024's standout RPG: "At Obsidian, it's your world, your way, right?"
Interview Interview | In combat, in questing, and in everything between, Avowed puts you at the heart of everything it does
Echoing Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed devs say their RPG has heaps of content that "not everybody's gonna find"
news "Discoverability and letting players be the author of their own experience is obviously very important to us"
Avowed is serving up a slice of magical fantasy, driven by player choice, flexible combat and "gun-slinging mages"
Features Avowed looks set to continue Obsidian's emphasis on player choice in its fantasy RPG
What to expect from Xbox Series X in 2024: Massive AAA exclusives, a banner year for Game Pass, and new hardware
Opinion Opinion | 2024 is the year where Xbox Game Pass will become unstoppable, and where Microsoft finally delivers on its commitment to deliver trend-setting first-party exclusives
