Obsidian Entertainment has proven to be a productive developer in the past number of years, with an increasing ability to juggle several projects at once. Obsidian has a long history of making RPG games , and its current projects prove there isn’t any slowing down the Microsoft Games Studios developer. Most of the company’s current projects are public knowledge, with one secret project and another large game that has been shrouded in myst
Skyrim ‘s system also has another key upside for Obsidian Entertainment — accessibility. Part of Skyrim ‘s massive financial success was no doubt in part to its accessibility to players new to the RPG genre, doing away with complicated and interwoven class and stat systems that could be alienating or confus
What is for sure, however, is that Avowed will be set in a world with some fascinating spiritual lore. The player character will almost certainly have lived many lives before the game, some of which they may be able to interact with depending on the game’s plot. If nothing else, Avowed players can feel a little less bad about mowing down their enemies safe in the knowledge that those souls will be returning to the world through The Wh
Grounded is Obsidian’s big potential release for 2021, but the studio’s next step is public too. In the same showcase that Grounded was revealed, Obsidian and Microsoft announced Avowed, a new RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity universe. Although Obsidian has said next to nothing about Avowed since then, knowing the setting of the game has gone a long way in helping fans get an image of the game. There’s tons of Pillars of Eternity lore already in place that’ll surely inform the game, no matter what the story is or how the gameplay differs from the games that precede
There’s been much speculation that Obsidian hopes to use Avowed to target The Elder Scrolls ‘ top spot in the first-person fantasy RPG market. The studio made a similar move with The Outer Worlds , a satirical sci-fi RPG directed by the original creators of the Fallout franchise. Like Skyrim , Avowed is set in a world with a cosmology deeply influenced by Lovecraftian myt
Following the release of Final Fantasy 7 Remake last year as well as the Intergrade DLC and the PS5 version only recently, many assumed Square Enix would at least be willing to show off what’s next for Cloud, Tifa, and the rest of the crew. Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that the development team has moved on to Part 2, though details continue to be scarce leaving many fans to speculate and theorize how the experience could cha
One major Obsidian project is actually already accessible. Grounded went into early access in July 2020 , and Obsidian has been supporting it aggressively ever since. Grounded is a new take on a familiar premise: the player characters are children who’ve mysteriously been shrunken down, and now have to fight insects much larger than them to survive. Although Grounded looked strong from the beginning, Obsidian consistently comes up with good additions to the game, like new buildings for players to create and a koi pond offering a tense and beautiful new way to engage with the microscopic wo
With the support of The Outer Worlds winding down, it’s easy to imagine that Grounded will receive some additional development support as it edges closer to moving past early access. Grounded’s community has exceeded 5 million players which could help ensure a long and exciting future. While there is certainly a sizeable scale to consider here, Grounded is arguably not the biggest project in the works at Obsidian Entertainment right
While Avowed is undoubtedly a huge undertaking, Obsidian Entertainment somehow has another project in the works that could be equal to the scale of Avowed dlc, if not greater. Josh Sawyer, design director at Obsidian Entertainment, took to Twitter in August 2020 and noted in no uncertain terms that he’s directing his own project and that the project isn’t Avowed. Josh Sawyer worked on the Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights series early in his career. More recently, he was responsible for pitching Pillars of Eternity which saw the company get out of a tight financial spot, and went on to direct the two games in that series. He’s perhaps most well-known for directing Fallout: New Vegas, a fan-favorite entry in the post-apocalyptic RPG ser
Obsidian has become an extremely productive developer with several projects in the pipeline at the moment. While some of these games are unlikely to be released for a few years, many fans are excited about what the studio has in store for the gaming industry. Since Microsoft bought Obsidian , it seems that the team has been ramping up development, and with Microsft behind them, it seems as though it has more resources accessible to them than ever bef
Obsidian could just as easily come up with something even more surprising. A recent job listing from Obsidian revealed that it’s starting work on an unannounced project supposedly set in an open world, which could mean The Outer Worlds 2 , or it could mean something completely different. In fact, since Obsidian has been establishing quite a few new IPs in the form of Grounded and The Outer Worlds lately, it seems pretty likely that the studio has another big idea that it wants to expl