Obsidian’s ‘Avowed’ Delayed Until 2025

In an announcement that won’t come as too much of a surprise, ‘Avowed’ has been pushed back to an early 2025 release date. Obsidian’s latest RPG was meant to release later this year but was pushed back to February 18th of next year to ‘give players’ backlogs some breathing room’ according to a Tweet from Xbox on the weekend. Its unclear as to whether this is the sole reason for the delay but, considering the mixed reaction from fans when we saw Avowed’s gameplay reveal earlier this year, it may be more than just splitting up big releases.

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Even still, it makes sense as to why Xbox would want to space their upcoming games apart. There are quite a few big budget Xbox games coming in the second half of 2024 including Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Indiana Jones: The Great Circle and Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion.

What’s important to note, however, is that the only one of these three to have a release date is Call of Duty- with Bethesda holding their cards close to their chest on when Indiana Jones and Stafield’s DLC will release. Its unlikely we’ll see these be delayed like Avowed but the lack of any release date information is strange considering that there’s only five months left of the year.

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Unless Doom: The Dark Ages and Fable both drop close to February, Avowed will be able to have its time in the spotlight thanks to Xbox’s decision here. Again, its likely that more work on the game still needs to be done by Obsidian but pushing it outside of the original release window wouldn’t be too big of a blow for Microsoft. This is especially true considering how much criticism the reveal trailers have received thus far.

Flat combat and uninteresting dialogue interactions are only a couple of flaws people online are having with the game. Hopefully, this delay allows Avowed to have enough time in the oven as well as receive a brighter spotlight when it launches next February.