Avowed was going to be a co-op game at one point, but Obsidian pivoted during development as it realized it wasn't focusing on "the things it's best at."
As revealed in part 5 of Obsidian's 20th-anniversary documentary, Avowed was almost a very different game as its developers wanted it to have a multiplayer aspect at one point. "When I look back at 20 years, there's decisions that of mine that I feel really good about, and there's decisions that I feel not so good about," Feargus Urquhart, Obsidian's studio head, says in the documentary.
