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Your journey culminates in Galawain’s Tusks, featuring the final batch of quests, including the answers to the questions you’ve likely had throughout the game. The area you’re able to travel ...
Art the Clown reached a new level of fame last year when he not only starred in the mega-successful Terrifier 3, but also became a playable character in Call of Duty. His placement in the popular ...
TL;DR: Avowed, a new RPG from Microsoft, entered the top 20 best-earning games of February 2025 despite being on Xbox Game Pass. Despite its release onto Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's new first ...
Avowed, which I've temporarily put down while I grind for drip in Monster Hunter Wilds, is slowly-but-surely summoning me back to the Living Lands with some incremental improvements. It's nice to ...
Before Avowed came out, the team were playing coy about whether the game would get post-launch support. Developer Obsidian Entertainment has now confirmed it'll continue supporting its new fantasy ...
You know, I’m something of an adventurer myself—that is, until the way-too-large spiders rear their ugly eyes in my direction. (Can you rear your eyes? -Pedantic Ed) To ensure fights like the ...
Crashing on the shores of Avowed’s Living Lands, I didn’t have two gold pieces to rub together. But with one quick scheme—okay, it was actually multiple methods in a concerted effort—I ...
Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. We’ve all been there: playing an RPG in a fictional world when suddenly you’re ...
It is no secret that romance questlines in RPGs are popular. You only need to bring up Baldur’s Gate 3 to a fan for them to start gushing over their favorite characters and the game’s well ...
What a difference a few weeks make. It wasn't that long ago that question marks were still hanging over Obsidian's coral-coloured role-playing game Avowed. Promotional trailers had left people ...
Romance has become increasingly common in role-playing games in recent years, having had central roles in Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Cyberpunk 2077, to name a recent few.
With Game Pass in the mix, success is an odd thing to gauge for any first-party Xbox release nowadays since sales aren't necessarily paramount. Thankfully for the beloved RPG studio, Avowed's ...