Avowed is a game I have had my eyes on for four years now, even before I set eyes on any gameplay. Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios always manage to pull me in, and with a game that looked very Skyrim adjacent, I couldn’t help but hope it would tide me over until Elder Scrolls VI. The good news? I was right. Avowed has all the makings of a great Elder Scrolls, but it does just enough to make it its own game, even if many of the similarities are glaring nods to my favourite franchise.
The plot in Avowed is mysterious by nature, and saying too much would do a disservice to the game’s story. The basics are that you wash up on shore and are quickly swept into chaos. A mysterious illness plagues the land, causing gorgeous but eerie mushrooms to grow out of people—it looks cooler than it sounds—as they descend into madness, usually attacking anything in sight.
What makes this even more interesting is that you are something called a Godlike, which is also shrouded in... Read more