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Avowed review: not quite Skyrim, but much stranger

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Avowed review; a skeleton warrior with flora growing from it, holding a sword.

Avowed: details

(Image credit: Obsidian Entertainment / Microsoft Game Studios)

Publisher Microsoft Game Studios

Developer Obsidian Entertainment

Release date 18 February 2025

Format PC (reviewed), Xbox Series X/S

Platform Unreal Engine 5

It would be easy to assume that Avowed is merely Obsidian Entertainment's take on Skyrim, given that it's also a first-person fantasy role-playing game - and it arguably fills a certain void since there's been a nary a peep on what's happening with The Elder Scrolls 6. That would however be a reductive take, as it's really a spin-off of the studio's acclaimed Pillars of Eternity series, also set in the same fantasy world of Eora, but given the AAA treatment and realised in breathtaking detail with Unreal Engine 5.

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