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Avowed Review Thread (self.gaming)

submitted 1 week ago by chloyster to c/gaming

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Game Information

Game Title: Avowed

Platforms:

Xbox Series X/S (Feb 18, 2025)
PC (Feb 18, 2025)

Trailers:

Developer: Obsidian Entertainment

Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 82 average - 85% recommended - 67 reviews

Critic Reviews

4News.it - Danilo Di Gennaro - Italian - 8.8 / 10

ACG - Jeremy Penter - Wait for Sale

AltChar - Semir Omerovic - 85 / 100

Andrenoob - Andres Perdomo - Spanish - 9 / 10

Atarita - Atakan Gümrükçüoğlu - Turkish - 90 / 100

But Why Tho? - Charles Hartford - 9.5 / 10

CGMagazine - Dayna Eileen - 8 / 10

Cerealkillerz - Steve Brieller - German - 8.3 / 10

Checkpoint Gaming - Luke Mitchell - 9.5 / 10

Console-Tribe - Francesco Pellizzari - Italian - 88 / 100

Daily Mirror - Aaron Potter - 3 / 5

Dexerto - Jessica Filby - 4 / 5

Digital Spy - Joe Draper - 4 / 5

Digitale Anime - Raouf Belhamra - Arabic - 8.5 / 10

Echo Boomer - David Fialho - Portuguese - No Recommendation

Enternity.gr - Christos Chatzisavvas - Greek - 9 / 10

Eurogamer.pt - Bruno Galvão - Portuguese - 3 / 5

EvelonGames - Joel Isern Rodríguez - Kaym - Spanish - 7.8 / 10

Expansive - Laurie Jones - 4 / 5

Explosion Network - Dylan Blight - 9 / 10

GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 79%

GRYOnline.pl - Przemysław Dygas - Polish - Unscored

GameOnly - Daniel Kucner - Polish - 8 / 10

GameSpot - Alessandro Barbosa - 6 / 10

Gamer Guides - Patrick Dane - 84 / 100

Gamers Heroes - Blaine Smith - 85 / 100

Gamersky - 心灵奇兵 - Chinese - 8.5 / 10

GamesFinest - Luca Pernecker - German - 8 / 10

Gaming Nexus - Eric Hauter - 8 / 10

Geeks & Com - Anthony Gravel - French - 9 / 10

Glitched Africa - Marco Cocomello - 9 / 10

Hinsusta - Pascal Kaap - German - 9 / 10

IGN Deutschland - Elena Schulz - German - 9 / 10

INVEN - Jaihoon Jeong - Korean - 8.3 / 10

Just Play it - Yacine Tebaibia - Arabic - 8 / 10

Le Bêta-Testeur - Patrick Tremblay - French - 10 / 10

Loot Level Chill - Mick Fraser - 8.5 / 10

Lords Of Gaming - Mahmood Ghaffar - 8.5 / 10

Manual dos Games - Joao Victor - Portuguese - 8 / 10

MondoXbox - Giuseppe Genga - Italian - 9.3 / 10

MonsterVine - Luis Joshua Gutierrez - 4.5 / 5

NextPlay - Brad Goodwin - 7.5 / 10

Nexus Hub - Andrew Logue - 8 / 10

PPE.pl - Maciej Zabłocki - Polish - 8.5 / 10

Pizza Fria - Matheus Feldmann da Rosa - Portuguese - 7.4 / 10

PowerUp! - Leo Stevenson - 9 / 10

Press Start - 8.5 / 10

Restart.run - John Carson - Recommended

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Unscored

SECTOR.sk - Táňa Matúšová - Slovak - 8.5 / 10

SIFTER - Gianni Di Giovanni - Worth your time

Seasoned Gaming - Don Lionheart - 8.5 / 10

Shacknews - Donovan Erskine - 9 / 10

Spaziogames - Italian - 8.3 / 10

Stevivor - Jam Walker - 7.5 / 10

TechRaptor - Austin Suther - 9 / 10

The Beta Network - Anthony Culinas - 8 / 10

The Outerhaven Productions - Jordan Andow - 4 / 5

TheSixthAxis - Dominic Leighton - 9 / 10

Tom's Hardware Italia - Andrea Riviera - Italian - 8.5 / 10

VGC - Chris Scullion - 4 / 5

WellPlayed - James Wood - 6 / 10

Worth Playing - Chris "Atom" DeAngelus - 7.8 / 10

XGN.nl - Ralph Beentjes - Dutch - 9.2 / 10

XboxEra - Jesse Norris - 8.8 / 10

ZTGD - Ken McKown - 8 / 10

ZdobywcyGier.eu - Paweł Bortkiewicz - Polish - 8 / 10

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[–] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sharing Jason Schreier's take from bluesky:

Pleased to report that I love Avowed, the latest RPG from Obsidian. I expected strong writing and combat, but what’s surprised me (and kept me wanting more even after 40 hours) is the exploration. Everywhere you turn there’s a secret or treasure or rooftop to climb — it’s dense and full of life.

I'm a little surprised reading some of these reviews but I suspect that Avowed could wind up like Fallout: New Vegas, where there's a vast gap between the critical reception and overall player consensus

[–] theangriestbird 4 points 1 week ago

what does he mean by "these reviews"? All the scores seem pretty positive to me?

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A good month for action RPGs

Seems like all the way on the other end of the spectrum of Kingdom Come deliverance 2. Might pick this up after I'm done with Kingdom Come.

the lack of stealth is a bit of a turn off for me personally, but the hand placed events and mobs seems like a big plus.

Does anyone know if the game is viable without any companions? The reviews I have seen seem to complain about them a lot and I already dislike AI teammates.

[–] Faydaikin 1 points 2 hours ago

A quick internet search would suggest that no, you can exchange them, but not dismiss them entirely.

The game seems pretty hard-coded in regards to how they want you to play it.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Wow I'm excited to see such positive reviews!

[–] t3rmit3 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I expect a solid 8/10 game, given The Outer Worlds and POE. Looking forward to the exploration more than anything.

[–] Megaman_EXE 2 points 6 days ago

I'm very curious how this one will pan out. I tried Outer Worlds, and I dropped it after about 10 hours or so. It felt oddly empty to me. I figure I should give it another shot at some point.

I hope this game is good!

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I absolutely loved the Pillars games. So I can't wait for Avowed.

[–] Batmanstinks 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excited for this! It might scratch the Skyrim itch I've had for so many years. I know I can go into this without playing the other PoE games, but I've been hooked on CRPGs ever since BG3 so I kind of want to play those games first

[–] delitomatoes@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Kingdom Come 2 kinda does that for me, it's more of a medieval rather than fantasy setting but I get flashbacks to Skyrim because of the melee combat. It's also funny as shit

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can't speak for PoE1, but the second one (deadfire) is a treat. Though I would not recommend playing it through turn based mode, it feels very much like retrofitting the existing RTwP system into a turn based system, which is what happened.

It takes some time to get used go it (or at least it did for me since I don't really enjoy RTwP) but still.

[–] Batmanstinks 2 points 5 days ago

RTwP is the only thing that I'm worried about since I'm coming from BG3 and Dnd 5e. Plus, I'm playing it on Xbox with a controller, and RTwP seems better suited for mouse and keyboard, but we'll see how it goes!