Avowed was quietly one among 2025’s finest RPGs. In truth, it even made Kotaku‘s finest video games of the yr record. But it surely was additionally one of many few remaining Microsoft video games that was nonetheless unique to Xbox Sequence X/S. That modifications subsequent month. Obsidian Leisure confirmed the Skyrim-like will hit PlayStation 5 on February 17 alongside an enormous anniversary replace throughout all platforms.
Regardless of bringing Forza Horizon and Gears of Warfare to PS5 in 2025, Avowed remained an uncommon island of exclusivity amid Microsoft’s new multiplatform push. It’ll now be a 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 strive it. Right here’s the developer interview from the New Sport+ Showcase the place the port was introduced:
Obsidian additionally revealed what the sport’s subsequent large replace will entail. Along with a photograph mode and new sport plus mode, gamers may even get entry to new character races, together with dwarves, and a further weapon sort. New sport plus mode, in the meantime, will reset gamers’ degree again to 1 however allow them to hold all of their gear from the earlier playthrough in addition to discover new enemy modifiers. The brand new races have been the true heavy carry, nonetheless.
“It’s loads of work and a tough factor to essentially nail down, particularly in Avowed with its parkour methods and its fight mechanics and all of the weapon varieties and stuff like that within the sport,” Dimitri Berman stated within the interview. “Our totally different races are totally different sizes, they’re totally different shapes, they’re a really distinctive sport expertise once you play as every one among them in a first-person sport particularly. So it was one thing 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 be presently 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 one of the best components of each sequence.
