Obsidian released three games in 2025, but that doesn't mean the studio intends to run an RPG assembly line. Development of Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 dragged on for ages, and it's sheer coincidence they happened to be ready for launch the same year that Grounded 2 entered early access. But the studio is hoping to release games at more regular intervals going forward, and Fallout: New Vegas offers a pretty good example of how it can be done.
With Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian built on the existing technology of Fallout 3 to develop a game in less than two years at the relatively low price of $8 million. "We don't need to change everything every time," Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart tells Bloomberg (paid article link). "We've had this debate internally: Do people really care that we spent an extra hundred person-months on the inventory screen?"
