Obsidian's New Big RPG Is Called Avowed

Obsidian received quite a lot of attention during Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase earlier this week. The prestigious studio has two games in development – Grounded and Avowed, and an expansion to The Outer Worlds, Peril on Gorgon.

While we knew about Grounded, a rather unusual game for a studio that focused solely on RPGs until now, Avowed was one of the biggest surprises of the show, along with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Avowed is an “epic, first-person RPG” set in the same universe as Pillar of Eternity, a great game that flopped commercially.

For Avowed, Obsidian switched to a first-person perspective, but that shouldn't be a problem since this is the same studio that gave us Fallout: New Vegas. Unfortunately, that's all we know about Avowed at this moment, although Mikey Dowling, Obsidian's director of communications said that more details will be shared “later down the line.”

Judging by the short teaser and the not so many details about the game, it's likely that Avow... (read more)