Avowed was quietly one of 2025’s best RPGs. Actually, it even made Kotaku‘s best games of the year list. But it was also one of the few remaining Microsoft games that was still exclusive to Xbox Series X/S. That changes next month. Obsidian Entertainment confirmed the Skyrim-like will hit PlayStation 5 on February 17 alongside a big anniversary update across all platforms.
Despite bringing Forza Horizon and Gears of War to PS5 in 2025, Avowed remained an unusual island of exclusivity amid Microsoft’s new multiplatform push. It’ll now be part of Obsidian Leisure’s different 2025 RPG, The Outer Worlds 2, on Sony’s platform the place thousands and thousands extra gamers will get an opportunity to attempt it. Right here’s the developer interview from the New Recreation+ Showcase the place the port was introduced:
Obsidian additionally revealed what the sport’s subsequent massive replace will entail. Along with a photograph mode and new sport plus mode, gamers will even get entry to new character races, together with dwarves, and an extra weapon kind. New sport plus mode, in the meantime, will reset gamers’ degree again to at least one however allow them to maintain all of their gear from the earlier playthrough in addition to discover new enemy modifiers. The brand new races have been the actual heavy raise, nevertheless.
“It’s a lot of work and a difficult thing to really nail down, especially in Avowed with its parkour systems and its combat mechanics and all the weapon types and stuff like that in the game,” Dimitri Berman stated within the interview. “Our different races are different sizes, they’re different shapes, they’re a very unique game experience when you play as each one of them in a first-person game specifically. So it was something new to wrangle for Avowed.”
Whereas the sport performs like The Elder Scrolls, it takes place within the fantasy universe from the Pillars of Eternity video games. The primary of these can also be at present getting a significant replace so as to add a turn-based mode. We’ll see if Obsidian plans to make an eventual Pillars 3 that merges the best parts of both series.
