Obsidian Entertainment is reportedly happy with the current sales progress of its latest action role-playing game, Avowed.
During an interview with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Avowed director Carrie Patel shared that Obsidian Entertainment is happy with the game’s sales thus far. This likely means that Microsoft is also pleased with its current sales progress, especially given how it has been available on Xbox and PC Game Pass since its launch.
Elsewhere in the interview, Patel mentioned that, four years ago, Obsidian Entertainment had made the decision to reboot the development of Avowed. At that point, the game had been in the works for over two years. Patel took over as the project director and ultimately led the it to completion. As such, the total development period spanned a total of 6 years.
Patel said that she learned many things over the past four years that she wished she had known at the start of Avowed’s reboot process. According to her, her role as the project’s director has been a job where the highs were really high and the lows were really low. She likened it to building tracks while the train is moving forward. A lot of lessons were learned by the development team of 80 people while building Avowed, which ideally would’ve been learned on a small scale with a proper pre-production.
The Avowed director also hinted at the possibility of a sequel at some point in the future. Now that the studio has built the game’s world as well as the team strength and muscle memory around the content and gameplay in said world, Patel would like to see the development team do more with it.
Avowed was released in early access on February 15, 2025, for the Xbox Series X|S and PC. Playing the game early required players to purchase the special edition on the Xbox Store and Steam, or pay a $20 upgrade fee on top of a Game Pass subscription.
