In an effort to give Avowed room to breathe, Xbox Game Studios has pushed its upcoming RPG into what may be the most suffocating year of the current generation. It's almost poetic. The new title from Obsidian Entertainment has been delayed until February 18, 2025 – a release window which has the capacity to be actively hostile to unknown quantities.
Avowed will land in the aftermath of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and under the shadow of upcoming Xbox Series X games like Doom: The Dark Ages, Fable, and South of Midnight. There's Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Monster Hunter Wilds to contend with, which will no doubt dominate early Game of the Year conversations. And it's impossible to anticipate the vacuum that GTA 6 and the launch of Nintendo's Switch 2 will generate. 2025 is going to be wild.
