Avowed' evokes the best of 'The Elder Scrolls' and "The Witcher' without all of the worst aspects of modern RPGs.

Avowed has launched in the all-too-common-now paid early access on Xbox and PC, and players are getting their hands on the ...

Reviews are pouring in for publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Obsidian Entertainment's latest role-playing game, ...

This deep dive can be viewed in video form up above, which gives a nice visual representation of everything going on in the new Obsidian RPG. The team tests out each and every performance mode across ...

In a world where endless growth is constantly peddled as the only way forward, this sort of language is very refreshing to ...

Exploration also feels great, with fun traversal and plenty of secrets.

In Avowed you don’t have to pick locks using a minigame. Instead, some chests and doors need more or fewer lockpicks to open. It doesn’t really make sense, but it does mean you should always keep at ...

Once you've linked your accounts, you can either start a new save or load an existing one. This feature is particularly handy ...

Spend a few hours in Avowed, and you’ll start to feel as if the NPCs are obsessed with wood. Open any chest or lockbox, and ...

When playing Avowed, keep your pre-completion save files before hitting the endgame in case of future DLC or expansions.

Happily, Avowed does at least launch in much better shape, and with some genuinely fetching fantasy visuals that may even ...

Avowed sort-of works on the Steam Deck, though shaky performance means it's not the ideal way to play Obsidian's RPG.