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Avowed’s release delayed into 2025 to dodge “a busy season” on Game Pass, claims reportBut the game itself is in “good shape”, apparently
But the game itself is in “good shape”, apparently
Image credit:Microsoft
Image credit:Microsoft
Obsidian’s first-person action-RPGAvowedis one of our75 most anticipated games of 2024, but according to a report, it’s been booted back into early 2025 to avoid a “very busy period” on Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service. Thanks, Microsoft. Do you know how long it took to cobble together that 2024 list? I still get hand cramps.
The report in question is from The Verge’s Tom Warren - as sturdy a source as they come. Writing on hisNotepad blog(paywall), Warren claimed that Avowed is in “good shape”, and that the delay is “more a matter of wanting to give the game breathing room during a very busy period for Xbox Game Pass”.
Outside Game Pass, it would have to reckon withAssassin’s Creed Shadows(15th November) and, perhaps most worryingly for Obsidian, BioWare’sDragon Age: The Veilguard(not dated yet, butdue to land in EA’s third quarter 2024, after 1st October).
Avowed could probably do with a bit of distance from anything comparably bulky and shiny with “action” or “RPG” in the job description.A classless RPG with easy respeccing and “open zones”, once pitched asObsidian’s Skyrim, it still feels to me like it’s stuck in No Man’s Land between Obsidian’s prior Pillars Of Eternity CRPGs, which are set in the same universe, and the more recent first-person Outer Worlds.
