Avowed is a jack-of-all-trades action RPG with a rare attention for the little details

I walked through the front doors of Obsidian Entertainment with a singleminded mission: find a gun in fantasy RPG Avowed as quickly as possible.

So much of Avowed—which Obsidian has taken pains to point out is not a sweeping open world game like Skyrim—looks deeply traditional. Cozy. Unsurprising. But then there are the guns. Where else might it diverge from the stock fantasy playbook?

"The things that set Avowed, and really all the [Pillars of Eternity] games we've made in the world of Eora apart in the fantasy RPG genre...