Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed is already on the list of 2025's most anticipated role-playing games, and its art director teases that the studio is leaning on "all the greatest hits" from its previous works to bring it to life.
As a stand-alone game set within the Pillars of Eternity universe, Avowed goes its own way by developing a deeper focus on combat and the shared experience of going on an adventure that shares a lot of common ground with The Outer World - yet it still retains the DNA of Obsidian's other more varied projects such as Grounded and Pentiment. During GamesRadar+'s recent Avowed preview, we spoke with art director Matt Hansen and lead environmental artist Dennis Presnell about the making of the game and how Avowed is a culmination of all the best content and features the devs had refined from across their entire studio's history.
