Games with more than one ending go a long way back to the 16-bit era of Contra: Hard Corps (and maybe long before that even). However, Obsidian Entertainment is ready to push the boundary with double digits ending for Avowed which will be shaped entirely by the player’s choices.
Game director Carrie Patel spoke with IGN at Gamescom 2024 and made several eye-popping revelations about the upcoming open-world Xbox exclusive. What stands Avowed out from other games in the genre at a glance is the massive splash of colors.
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Patel credited that idea to the game’s art director Matt Hansen who she said holds color vibrancy close to heart. She added that the colors helped to “bring to life the fantasy of the Living Lands”. Patel was also asked about how many different endings Avowed would have.
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“It is very hard to say,” Patel responded. “I can tell you that our ending slides number in the double digits and you can end up with a lot of different combinations of them.”
“I mean, this is an Obsidian game so your ending is really the sum total of your choices across the game, across a lot of pieces of content depending on what you encountered and what you did when you found it.”
Why Avowed has so many different endings
The idea of having several alternate endings to a game is sometimes a strategy that developers use to make their games replayable or to keep players on their games for as long as possible. This strategy helps when the developer is planning an update to the game. Patel said this was one of the goals Obsidian hoped to achieve with the double-digit slides’ endings of Avowed.
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“We’ve built our gameplay around giving you a lot of options for how you approach combat, how you build out your character,” Patel explained. “You can choose one of your classic fighter, rogue, wizard, fantasy archetypes, or you can choose something that you mix and match styles, you mix and match weapons.”
“There is a lot of freedom on how you progress and you can really build whatever kind of character you want to play. In terms of the storyline, there’s really a lot of choices to be made too about where your true loyalties lie, kind of who your allegiances with in the end game. We are really excited to see players explore those possibilities and build their own story.”
Avowed was announced in July 2020 and would be set in the world of Eora which Obsidian first introduced in the Pillars of Eternity series. Although previously accidentally announced to release on November 12, the game now has a 2025 release window. Patel said the length will be similar to The Outer Worlds.
