Pentiment will not have a sequel or spiritual successor from Obsidian

Josh Sawyer, Director penance and Head of Game Design at Obsidian Entertainment, ensured that the narrative adventure of the Xbox series, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Microsoft Store) would not have Neither a sequel nor a spiritual heirbecause the idea, which had been running around his head for several decades, was always to compose a single story.

The historian was also asked on his Tumblr profile by a user (via Gaming Bolt) on whether it will be called a “spiritual sequel”palimpsest(or Palimpsest, an ancient manuscript that preserves artificially erased traces of earlier writings). Sawyer replies: In fact, the initial original title of penance He was palimpsest!

boss Fallout: New Vegas And Pillars of eternity He explains: “It is [equipo] Microsoft realized that legal Possible difficulty in registering this nameso I renamed it as penanceOf the potential sequel, he says: “And no, I have no plans to make a sequel to penanceSpiritual or otherwise.”

“I always envisioned it as one story”says the veteran developer, who started out as a designer at Icewind Dale. Of course, he doesn’t care that other teams pick up the baton: “[Pentiment] Ideas can inspire (I hope, not just me!) In the future, but I’m glad we stopped.”

Works on obsidian I confess And outer worlds 2

At the moment, the obsidian future is passing by I confess, a first-person role-playing game for the Xbox series and PC that we may see at the Xbox Games Showcase conference on June 11th; And outer worlds 2the sequel to the RPG published in 2019 of which we have only seen a preview trailer without any Play.

in Our analysis of penance We said it “One of the most original games” we’ve enjoyed in 2022. A game that does not shy away from talking about fundamental issues such as the importance of history, knowing our social roots, the effects of Catholicism on European society, how progress is not the same for everyone, on class struggle, feminism and many other issues that are relevant and current, looking back from the present. “.