Avowed (2025)
Avowed is a 2025 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios.
The Living Lands beckon in Avowed, Obsidian's first-person fantasy action RPG set in Eora, the same world as Pillars of Eternity. You arrive on a mysterious island as an envoy of the empire, drawn into a place whose ecosystems, ruins, and peoples seem to be calling out for help. Combat mixes swords, guns, shields, and a grimoire of spells that freeze, trap, or burn, letting each fight bend to your build. Companions from many species travel alongside you, their own quests and loyalties shifting with the choices you make.
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What is Avowed about?
The Living Lands beckon in Avowed, Obsidian's first-person fantasy action RPG set in Eora, the same world as Pillars of Eternity. You arrive on a mysterious island as an envoy of the empire, drawn into a place whose ecosystems, ruins, and peoples seem to be calling out for help. Combat mixes swords, guns, shields, and a grimoire of spells that freeze, trap, or burn, letting each fight bend to your build. Companions from many species travel alongside you, their own quests and loyalties shifting with the choices you make.
When was Avowed released?
Avowed was released on 18 February 2025.
Who made Avowed?
Avowed was made by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios.
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A few thoughts on Avowed
Newcomers to Eora who want the wider vista should try Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon for factional fantasy scheming, or Christopher Paolini's Brisingr for questing across a strange continent. Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack score matches the sweep of the Living Lands as you climb its cliffs and delve its ruins.
Open worlds where your companions remember what you did
Avowed's companions from across Eora shift their loyalty depending on how you treat them, turning every choice into a relationship. These open worlds work the same way: allies, followers, and found family who react to your decisions rather than standing around as scenery, so the world feels lived in rather than staged.
Fantasy rebellions against an overreaching empire
You arrive in the Living Lands as an envoy of an empire that the locals never asked for, and Avowed lets you decide whether that empire deserves your loyalty. These picks share that same fault line: fantasy worlds cracking under imperial overreach, where siding with the crown or the resistance changes everything that follows.
Magic-and-blade adventuring parties in a wondrous, dangerous world
Avowed hands you a grimoire alongside swords and guns, letting spells that freeze, trap, or burn sit right next to steel in every fight. These series share that same mix: companions who combine swordplay with sorcery, moving through strange, hazard-filled worlds where every encounter calls for both magic and muscle.
Dark fantasy music for casting spells in a strange land
The Living Lands hum with old magic and half-understood ruins, the kind of setting that wants heavy, ominous music behind it. These records match that mood: prog and metal built on dread and scale, better suited to a grimoire and a blade than anything cheerful.