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Obsidian Entertainment May Be Working on Yet Another Unannounced AAA RPG

A recent job listing suggests Obsidian Entertainment is working on an unannounced AAA RPG alongside its current projects like Avowed and TOW2.

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A job listing states that Obsidian Entertainment is looking for a World Builder to work on its "next major RPG," with other corroborating info suggesting that production on this project began a year ago or so. That's not much to go on, so it's clear whatever this is, it's in the earliest stages. Many have questioned if this could reference Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2, especially since the latter's self-aware trailer implied it was in early development, but that's not the case. First off, The Outer Worlds 2's development began sooner than the trailer implied, going back to 2019. And on top of that, Josh Sawyer has previously stated that Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 are playable.

 

[Elginer]

Gimme more awesome stuff

 

[Mister Wolf]

I've always liked them. Avowed will be better than Starfield. Combat and story.

 

[R3claimer117]

the most underrated Microsoft acquisition. Holy shit these guys are efficient and grounded is top of my game of the year so far from a small team In obsidian. Can’t wait to see avowed.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Into my viens. I like the idea of a more focused AA style games with AAA support their doing. Keeps the content flowing and let other teams like Bethesda do the huge 5 year+ AAA. Let’s see how these turn out. Grounded was a success for its audience. Let’s see if pentiment is a success for mines then avowed.

 

[Robb]

Neat, if true. Obsidian really was a great get for MS, seems like a studio with a lot of solid ideas/projects.

 

[Hobbygaming]

How big is Obsidian?

 

[Fredrik]

How big is Obsidian?

My thought as well. They’re already doing Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, both big RPGs. Then there is Grounded and Pentiment too, smaller games but still need talented people.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

How big is Obsidian?

Smol.

Definitely not capable of 3 AAA and 2 smaller titles.

Dunno what's going on?

But Grounded is pretty good and Pentiment is coming out next month. So maybe their games are coming along well.

 

[anthony2690]

My thought as well. They’re already doing Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, both big RPGs. Then there is Grounded and Pentiment too, smaller games but still need talented people.

"Quick recap of Obsidian team (280+ employees): Avowed 80, ToW 80, Pentiment 13, Grounded 13, New Unannounced AAA RPG 80."

According to some commenter on the Reddit thread where this popped up prior to this article, so could be nonsense.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

"Quick recap of Obsidian team (280+ employees): Avowed 80, ToW 80, Pentiment 13, Grounded 13, New Unannounced AAA RPG 80."

According to some commenter on the Reddit thread where this popped up prior to this article, so could be nonsense.

13 people made Grounded?? LMAO.

It's up there in GOTY list for me this year. Exploring backyard feels surreal. Puts some AAA productions to shame.

 

[reksveks]

"Quick recap of Obsidian team (280+ employees): Avowed 80, ToW 80, Pentiment 13, Grounded 13, New Unannounced AAA RPG 80."

According to some commenter on the Reddit thread where this popped up prior to this article, so could be nonsense.

LinkedIn numbers was 284 so 280-300 is about right

 

[20cent]

What's the other AAA?

 

[anthony2690]

13 people made Grounded?? LMAO.

It's up there in GOTY list for me this year. Exploring backyard feels surreal. Puts some AAA productions to shame.

I am going to get round to this at some point with my other half, always seeing a lot of praise for Grounded.

We are currently doing and really enjoying as dusk falls.

 

[anthony2690]

What's the other AAA?

Avowed & Outer Wilds 2

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I am going to get round to this at some point with my other half, always seeing a lot of praise for Grounded.

We are currently doing and really enjoying as dusk falls.

Yup. Pretty good if you like survival games.

2-3 player coop is must to make most of it.

 

[NeoLed]

Avowed & Outer Wilds 2

Outer Worlds 2. I mixed those two sometimes too

 

[Fredrik]

"Quick recap of Obsidian team (280+ employees): Avowed 80, ToW 80, Pentiment 13, Grounded 13, New Unannounced AAA RPG 80."

According to some commenter on the Reddit thread where this popped up prior to this article, so could be nonsense.

they’re far bigger than I thought they were

 

[anthony2690]

Outer Worlds 2. I mixed those two sometimes too

I still do it would seem

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Give us another Fallout spin-off already!

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Spin up Studio Vault-Tec with talent from all over to make spin-off Fallout games. This is too valuable an asset for my to be near 50 for Fallout 5.

 

[GymWolf]

If spreading their team into 3843638 projects gives me genre defining pieces of mediocrity like the outer world, i'm okay with that.

 

[samoilaaa]

they should slow the fuck down , they can barely finish one AAA game and they want to start another one ? its been 2 years since we heard anything about avowed , instead of starting a new game put all those people to work on your curent projects

 

[Roberts]

I don't want to choose favourites and MS has some amazing studios under their belt, but right now Obsidian is the one that seems to be the most productive. I really hope Pentiment kicks my ass real hard. Can't wait.

 

[Barlow]

We could read "Next Major RPG" years ago when neither Avowed nor TOW 2 were announced.

That's just a copy & paste text.

 

[SuperSaiyanWithDreads]

I've always liked them. Avowed will be better than Starfield. Combat and story.

You’re crazy to think that

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Hope they don’t run themselves into the ground with too many projects like TellTale Games did.

 

[Laptop1991]

All sound's great, but at this point i'm just waiting for 1 of them to actually come out, i'd rarther be playing one of them and waiting for the other's instead of constant new announcements of more games with no actual game out.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Man, I’m really looking forward to Avowed. Probably more than any other Microsoft exclusive except maybe Fable.

I’d imagine the team has grown since the acquisition.

 

[LazyParrot]

Have we seen anything at all from Avowed since the reveal trailer over two years ago?

 

[lh032]

Avowed cancelled confirmed.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

You’re crazy to think that

Yep. Way smaller scale game, for sure.

 

[Bernkastel]

Avowed cancelled confirmed.

Spoiler

 

[Verchod]

How about a spiritual successor to Alpha Protocol? At least I wish that's what it was

 

[Bernkastel]

How about a spiritual successor to Alpha Protocol? At least I wish that's what it was

Sega owns the IP.

 

[Negotiator101]

they should slow the fuck down , they can barely finish one AAA game and they want to start another one ? its been 2 years since we heard anything about avowed , instead of starting a new game put all those people to work on your curent projects

Just released Grounded and Pentiment is out soon. What AAA game have they barely finished ?

 

[Verchod]

Sega owns the IP.

I know, that's what I meant by spiritual successor. Successor in all but name I guess. Or as close as is legally viable. It's a great idea and I get bored of the traditional RPG fare. And I miss Splinter Cell.

 

[Barakov]

Maybe they should finish Avowed first?

 

[The Cockatrice]

Janky developers that haven't made anything great in ages have too many projects they will never finish.

There, a better title.

 

[SuperSaiyanWithDreads]

Yep. Way smaller scale game, for sure.

You never seen it

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

You never seen it

Does that matter? Lol

Not even a difficult educated guess to assume the game will be smaller scale.