When Covid-19 morphed into a full blown pandemic in 2020, artists were quick to work out their feelings through their work. Within its first year, we got home-recorded music about isolation, mask-filled street art, and even a Michael Bay-produced thriller.
That output serves as a great time capsule into how people were dealing with its immediate side effects, largely focused on the struggle to find human connection amid social isolation.
That only scratched the surface of the pandemic’s impact, though. To really grapple with its complexities, we’d all need time to see the scars it left over time and process them.
That wouldn’t happen in a few months. Now, five years later, we’ve finally gotten the kind of nuanced “pandemic art” that could only come with time – and it’s come in a surprising form.
Avowed, the latest game from Obsidian, is a new fantasy RPG that’s all about Gods and political intrigue in the Pillars of Eternity universe.