Has it really been seven long years since the Last Pillars of Eternity game? Perhaps it has, but Obsidian Studios is finally serving us a long-awaited snack to tide us over until the next game: Avowed, the not-quite-spinoff set in the same universe.
It doesn’t disappoint. These guys have form when it comes to fantasy RPGs – even if Obsidian’s most recent games have been the delightfully bonkers Pentiment and the even more bonkers Grounded – and what it concocts here is a delicious fantasy offering that mostly satisfies, even if it doesn’t (to overstretch the culinary metaphor) leave the taste-buds tingling.
