Obsidian Is Reportedly Working On A Murder Mystery RPG, Inspired By Disco Elysium
And it’s being directed by the same guy who did Fallout: New Vegas.
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Obsidian has a lot of games in the works right now. There’s Avowed, the first-person fantasy RPG that seems to be taking on Skyrim, and The Outer Worlds 2, the sequel to the wacky sci-fi action RPG that convinced us New Vegas can absolutely exist in space.
Obsidian was rumored to have a third game in development, and now we’re getting our first ideas on just what that game is.
This comes courtesy of Jeff Grubb on a recent episode of the Grubbsnax Show, along with a report from Windows Central journalist Jez Corden. The game is called “Pentiment,” which is a word describing “an underlying image in a painting, especially one that has become visible when the top layer of paint has turned transparent with age.” As the name sort of suggests, it’s a murder mystery RPG that takes place in the Renaissance period.
In Pentiment, you play as a 16th-century investigator looking into a grisly murder. During the investigation, it becomes clear the murder is part of a larger conspiracy, although we don’t know the full details as of yet.
We do know that at the helm will be Josh Sawyer, the same game director who helmed Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity. Pentiment is being made by a small team of 12 people for an “indie” feel, and it’ll feature the sort of branching narrative that Sawyer is known for.
Expect a dialog-heavy RPG with lots of response options and limited combat. Actions and choices will have consequences that shape the narrative and determine what happens to both you and the story.
Grubb specifically mentioned Disco Elysium as a big source of inspiration for Pentiment, so expect a similar experience here.
Pentiment is aiming to launch sometime in 2022 and might even include some “experimental gameplay elements,” but we’ll have to wait and see if those experiments make it to launch.
Besides Pentiment, Obsidian is also apparently “deep into pre-production” on Avowed, and is aiming for a 2023 release window.
Link Source : https://www.thegamer.com/obsidian-murder-mystery-rpg-pentiment/