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The Decade’s Hardest-Working RPG Creator May Borrow From Final Fantasy

Obsidian wants to make a tactical RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, which is a risky but excellent idea.

Inverse

There's hunger at Obsidian for a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, says studio design director Josh Sawyer, but it doesn't sound like it'd get that Baldur's Gate 3-size budget he was fantasizing about

Look, I'll just be happy to get another isometric game even half as good as Deadfire.

PC Gamer

Obsidian CEO reveals it's just half the size of many triple-A studios, even as it prepares to launch its 4th game in 5 years

Pint-size powerhouse.

PC Gamer

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Josh Sawyer says there's "a lot of people" at Obsidian who want to make a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, but the "fanbase is not humungous"

The Fallout: New Vegas director explains the difficulty in making a Pillars Tactics

GamesRadar

Avowed could have been Obsidian's Redfall, with a Destiny plus Skyrim co-op multiplayer vision scrapped early in a grueling 6-year development

The great game we got instead is apparently selling well, with DLC and a sequel on the table.

PC Gamer

Too many RPGs don't get that 'choices that matter' isn't just about cause and effect, but Avowed does

I want choices that matter to me, not just to the game.

PC Gamer

Avowed is nothing like Bethesda's RPGs, but The Elder Scrolls 6 should take inspiration from its combat

Opinion | Avowed and The Elder Scrolls have distinct takes on open-world RPGs, but Bethesda's next needs some of Obsidian's combat tricks

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Obsidian Entertainment CEO says the developer has grown significantly under Xbox Game Studios

Speaking in a new interview, Obsidian Entertainment CEO Fearus Urguhart talked about how the RPG developer has grown significantly under Xbox.

Windows Central

There's a simple way to enable FSR 3 frame gen in Avowed and it more than doubled my frame rate, but it makes waterfalls look ugly as sin

Still, 150 fps + even in Paradis central? I'll take it.

PC Gamer

Avowed's huge 66GB update includes major improvements for the game's whole progression system, along with key bug fixes and buffs for companions

Patch 1.2.2 is surprisingly extensive for a launch day update.

PC Gamer

Avowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever

If someone says "wow, you must've hit your head hard" one more time, I'm gonna lose it.

PC Gamer

Dissecting Avowed's beautifully abstract artwork, and how it was made

A bold vision of fantasy and ambiguity – Skylight Collective's Executive Creative Director and Obsidian's Game Director explain how it was made.

Creative Bloq

Avowed brings back a joke pistol from Pillars of Eternity that literally tells you not to use it, but you can immediately upgrade it into a killer hand cannon

"The Disappointer" is a misleading name.

PC Gamer

Avowed's first zone of Dawnshore is the anti-Hinterlands: A fantastic first impression that I didn't mind sinking 16 hours into

Leave the Hinterlands, but take your time in Dawnshore

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Obsidian is trolling all of us by disabling one of Avowed's most useful settings by default, and we're mad about it

Why they decided to disable the ability to see such important objects on the compass is beyond me!

Windows Central

Does Avowed have multiplayer or co-op?

Avowed stands tall as one of 2025's biggest Xbox and PC RPGs, but can you play it in co-op multiplayer?

PC Gamer

Avowed lets you pretend your character's not a stinky mushroom person, but that's the coward's choice

Sorry sweaty, you're stinky.

PC Gamer

Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas' Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod

Look, it's kinda weird in there.

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Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn't sacrifice its identity

I enjoyed The Veilguard, but Avowed has put its successes and failures in a new light.

Windows Central

It's Valentine's Day but Avowed won't let me romance Kai so I'm still sad

Avowed, the latest fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is now here and I love it. But... I'm also sad, because it's Valentine's Day and I can't romance Kai.

Inverse

'Avowed' Director Is Not Trying To Make Games That 'Fill Hundreds Of Hours'

Avowed director Carrie Patel explains the philosophy behind Obsidian's approach to open-world RPGs.

Windows Central

Microsoft's 'Avowed' advanced access inexplicably skips Xbox Cloud Gaming in favor of NVIDIA GeForce Now, putting Xbox customers last

If you paid the extra $23 for early access to Avowed and $20 per month for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you may find that Microsoft prefers your custom on NVIDIA GeForce Now instead.

GamesRadar

A search engine mix-up had Avowed players declare that an Indian politician was "John Avowed" – and they've already made him in-game

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GamesRadar

Obsidian insisted that Avowed wouldn't have romance, but that wasn't quite true, because there's at least one eligible bachelor, and he's voiced by an iconic Mass Effect heartthrob

Could any more romance plots be hiding that we don't know about yet?

PC Gamer

Obsidian says it won't chase huge profits or grow aggressively, and that's how it's going to last 100 years in the RPG business: 'Are we serious? Yes'

The Avowed studio expects each game to be a "mild success" and budgets accordingly, say company leaders who want it to reach its 100th birthday.

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