Obsidian's Pentiment Arrives This November
Obsidian Entertainment has announced that its narrative mystery game Pentiment will be released for Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC on November 15.
Announced on Xbox Wire, the game was already confirmed for November but has now received an official date. Its announcement to release period is therefore fairly slim as Pentiment was only announced a couple of months ago in June.
Led by industry veteran Josh Sawyer, the game follows a medieval artist named Andreas Maler, an educated journeyman who's close to reaching his ultimate goal of becoming a master artist. As it happens, however, Maler gets caught up in a murder mystery as his friend is accused of killing someone.
The player, as Maler, must solve the mystery - or at least decide who's punished - but Pentiment won't make clear exactly who's guilty. The decision will have knock-on effects over years and years as Maler gets caught up in more and more murders.
Player choice is a staple in Obsidian Games - the developer behind Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas - and Sawyer told IGN back in June that these themes would echo throughout Pentiment as well.
"There will be familiar elements in terms of choice and background development and consequence for people who like our RPGs," he said. "But it really, at its heart, is a narrative adventure story."
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
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