Avowed

A fun game where Garrus Vakarian can be your companion again! But the I'll also say that the map designs in this game is great. The world feels handcraftet and it's a lot of fun to see something cool on the horizon and decide you want to check it out. The combat also feels great, it feels fast and flashy in a way that makes you feel cool. I will also say that my pc is not the best, so at the endgame I started to expirience some technical hiccups and crashes, which is a shame since the early game runs completly fine for me. I'll say the game is worth giving a chance, and having fun exploring and getting to know your character

It's pretty fun, nice to have an RPG of this type to play around with that has it's own unique lore and setting.

This game is really underrated. I don't really have any complaints. It's not some masterpiece that will change whole genre, but it's just solid, fun RPG game. Cool first person engaging combat, very good graphics, there are choices that matters and can change the outcome of the story. Actually a strong point of this game is also lack of ubisoft-like question marks and pointless collectibles everywhere. I had fun, never felt bored and I can definitely recommend it in 2026 after all patches.

For CachyOS Users: PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=0 VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr,no_upload_hvv %command% Game itself is good. Solid 8/10. Great Combat, Visuals, art style. It feels awesome to explore because you will always find something usefull. Story is good, Characters also but all in all forgetable. The World..well its your Playground. No Reactions to theft, people always stay at the same place - so no KCD2. RPG Elements itself..well your origin story matters sometimes.. Your decisions can have a hard impact but only once per region more or less. All in all enjoyable especially

played around 45 hours: Pros - First 2 areas are really beutiful Like the exploration Like the parkour and finding secrets combat is really nice cons - at some point the fights feel a chore - i played in heightest diffuclty and the enemies just have too much hp. like normal enemies takes seconds to do even when you have max stats and gear Too much dialog - and with "choises matter" like too many, I got into the final act and i thought to my self, oh finally the ending! but noooooooooo there still a big map to explorer. I don't bother to end the game, the fights just arent good enough to carry this game

Definitely worth it if you buy it on sale for ~$35 (that's half of the original price) Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon was too dark and depressing for me. I want a game that relieves stress, not increases stress

A great gateway into the Pillars of Eternity franchise, which I've been putting off until now. The game was overall very well done, with the exception that the combat was a little slower than I personally prefer.

Avowed is a game for which I'd like a third option instead of "yes" or "no" for the recommendation, I find it to be a somewhat mixed bag. It has some undeniable good and fun elements but at the same time fails in other areas - especially when it comes to some RPG elements. First things first, yes, the game has some "woke" elements like pronoun shenannigans. As someone who really, really dislikes woke elements in games I have to say that it did not feel intrusive to a level that bothered me. So the backlash this has experienced over that is indeed overblown. Let's now talk about the game: The good stuff: - combat is fluid and fun - exploration feels rewarding and you find lots of loot - playstyles with different weapons/magic are fun - I mostly liked the semi-open world areas - especially during the first 1/2-2/3rds of the game these element kept me intrigued - artstyle etc. are nice The bad stuff: - although I like the world and loved POE1/2 the story of Avowed is mediocre at best, there was no point in the game at which the story really made me want to continue. - I disliked the companions. I found their overall writing to be uninteresting. Compare this to BG or original DA: Origins, these games had interesting and sexy companions you wanted to know more about and romance. I did not care for the Avowed companions (who felt a little like they were the DEI squad) - I think they made astonishingly bad choices in regards to item upgrade/progression - Especially towards the end, enemy encounters and variety felt very repetitive became increasingly less fun for me - combat does not really change from start to finish - it doesnt feel like it evolves a lot. This combined with the enemy variety and story led me to rush through the final parts a bit because I somewhat wanted to finish it but not spend too much more time with it. - Another thing that has been critizied a lot but did not bother me so much is that the world is unreactive compared to games like Skyrim: there is no theft, you take whatever you want out each home; you can throw bombs in town or try to hit citizens - the game does not even react to that and you cannot harm them like in Elder Scolls games. If you want a fast paced, action oriented game without too much depth, I think you can go for avowed. If you want a deep RPG with good story, companions and well thought out systems, I suggest you skip this one. It is certainly not a bad game. But it is also most certainly not a really good game. I