Avowed won't take hundreds of hours to complete: Obsidian Entertainment's new game is comparable in scope to The Outer Worlds

For a long time after the announcement of the role-playing game Avowed many people perceived it as an attempt of Obsidian Entertainment studio to create its own analogue of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - a game with a huge open world and hundreds of additional quests.

Recently, the developers have managed to clarify to gamers that such a comparison is correct. And finally, the game director Carrie Patel brought clarity and clearly outlined the scope of Avowed.

Here's What We Know

In an interview with Game Informer, Carrie Patel revealed that the size of Avowed is comparable to another Obsidian project, the space RPG The Outer Worlds (2019).

As such, you can expect it to take 25-35 hours to get through all the quests and locations, and the main story will fit into about 15 hours.

Patel also emphasised that Avowed will not have an open world like The Elder Scrolls. Of course, the game will have many spacious and open areas to explore, but their scale is not even close to Bethesda's games, and in addition, they are clearly connected to each other by various transitions.

Instead of betting on scale, Avowed developers decided to concentrate on the quality of each quest and make them as diverse, complex and variable as possible.

When We Can Expect It

Avowed is expected to release in late 2024 on PC and Xbox Series, and will be available immediately on Game Pass.

Source: Game Informer