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[Teslerum]

Low budget/very small passion project. Might not be yours, but I think it looks very interesting.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

Artwork is quite unique and love the historical medieval painting feel. And the concept is quite different...definitely interested.

 

[Teslerum]

Some additional context why the setting was chosen: Sawyer has studied European History and IIRC wrote his thesis on witch burnings. He's talked about making a historical game using his knowledge for ages.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[SteelCurtain 59]

It does look interesting, but the way they did the text massively reduces my interest. Like going from grey to black like that just makes it annoying to read, and considering dialogue will play a major part in the game I don't know if I'll be motivated to put up with that decision

 

[tommib]

This looks super interesting. Great art and should be super historically accurate. Can’t wait for this, really.

 

[Shubh_C63]

unpopular opinion, but make this game for ipad.

 

[BoxFresh123]

So this is the Disco Elysium inspired thing..................

 

[belteshazzar]

Hmm, that actually piqued my interest. I really dig the medieval book aesthetics, and the unique visuals. I'll keep this game on my radar

 

[Pejo]

so a visual novel?

 

[Labadal]

Will keep an eye on it. I have drifted away from Obsidian games, but maybe this pulls me back in.

 

[The_hunter]

This is the disco elysium style game josh sawyer was working on? I thought it was a random indie game. Interest is piqued, the puzzles looked good.

 

[adamsapple]

Art reminded me of The Procession to Calvary.

I really enjoyed that game.

That + Obsidian writing = I'm in.

unpopular opinion, but make this game for ipad.

You can play on iOS, Android or anything related with Xcloud

 

[Kimahri]

Never gonna be Kingdom Come Deliverance

Good thing they're not even remotely trying to then, eh?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Nice to see something more of a Puzzler nature among all the others shown.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Kinda looks like Yes Your Grace.

Kind of an Oregon Trail inspired game. I enjoyed it so I hope they do something similar with Pentiment.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Day one. I love these kinds of games. Reminds me of Thronebreaker.

 

[Punished Miku]

One of the more interesting games from the show for me.

 

[reksveks]

I am excited for this game

 

[Teslerum]

Obsidian's Xbox-Exclusive Pentiment Is a 16th Century Mystery Styled Like a Medieval Manuscript - IGN

After a number of rumors, the next project from Josh Sawyer has finally been revealed: it is indeed called Pentiment, and it's a narrative crime story of sorts set in 16th century Bavaria and styled like a medieval manuscript.

www.ign.com

As Sawyer explains it, Pentiment follows a medieval artist named Andreas Maler, an educated journeyman who's near to becoming a master artist. While visiting an abbey to make an illuminated manuscript, a monk who is also Andreas' friend and mentor is accused of a murder he claims he didn't commit. Since no one else steps in to solve the case, Andreas dedicates himself to finding the real killer.

Sawyer tells us that key to Pentiment is that it never explicitly tells you who the murderer really is. Andreas will have to decide who he thinks committed the murder, or at least who he thinks should be punished for it even if it isn't the actual murderer. And those decisions will ripple out through the rest of Pentiment, which covers a span of around 25 years and multiple crimes and murders that Andreas keeps getting caught up in.

 

[Champomade]

Looks good!
Definitely on my radar now

 

[Shifty1897]

Yeah this looks really interesting, when I first saw the art style I was reminded of Monty Python.

 

[BigbyTheSheriff]

It's by Josh Sawyer, so I'm in day one on Steam.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I immediately thought of Monty Python. I thought it was going to be some comedy game at first.

 

[Raven117]

I think it looks cool!

Obviously the strength of the writing will carry it.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

So this is something like a time-loop murder mystery detective game? Looks super interesting.

 

[Fuz]

Flash game.

 

[Teslerum]

So this is something like a time-loop murder mystery detective game? Looks super interesting.

No time loop or anything else sci-fi. It just takes place over a long time.

 

[Balducci30]

Not for me

 

[Lognor]

This is my jam and I didn't even know that until they showed me. Wow

 

[niilokin]

If you like artstyle check out Balancelot its like medieval Elastomania

 

[Ladioss]

It looks fantastic. Wasn't expecting something like that from Josh Sawyer.

 

[CitizenZ]

JS is one of the greatest ever to code RPGs and no matter what he does(though I doubt we would be friends) I will play and def. enjoy.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

This game looks VERY cool, and I can't wait to play it.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

Definitely not what I was expecting, but it looks so unique from any game I've ever seen that I am very interested. Plus, I love quirky history.

 

[Ezekiel_]

Definitely not what I was expecting, but it looks so unique from any game I've ever seen that I am very interested. Plus, I love quirky history.

It's been done before a few times.

Take this game for example :

 

[Andodalf]

Art reminded me of The Procession to Calvary.

I really enjoyed that game.

That + Obsidian writing = I'm in.




You can play on iOS, Android or anything related with Xcloud

Yeah certain scenes looked a lot like it!

 

[In Cold Blood]

Not my thing, but Obsidian has had some luck with their passion projects.
Grounded would most likely never have got a go but they let it happen and it's a big hit for what it cost to make.
Maybe this will be similar.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

This is a game I would have completely ignored were it not for Obsidian. Obsidian is the only reason I'm bothering to look into and understand this game, and I'm glad I did. It's something different and I welcome that.

Pretty much the way it plays is you make choices and decisions based on a set of options the game gives you, mostly starting with dictating your background, lifestyle, to how you choose to investigate murders. And depending on the conversational choices you make, it will dictate what direction the game takes, the choices available to you throughout the game. So how you investigate, how you question people, who you accuse, who you choose to investigate, all of it is connected.

A Narrative RPG basically lol.

https://www.obsidian.net/news/obsidian/obsidian-entertainment-announces-pentiment

Give the site a read.

The site provides a better description. They also basically provide a small update on Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed.

We are aware that fans of our studio are also excited for Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2. Our teams are chugging away on both games and when we are ready to show them off, trust us, we will.

 

[Corndog]

It does look interesting, but the way they did the text massively reduces my interest. Like going from grey to black like that just makes it annoying to read, and considering dialogue will play a major part in the game I don't know if I'll be motivated to put up with that decision

Maybe they will change it.

 

[CatLady]

Low budget/very small passion project. Might not be yours, but I think it looks very interesting.

I thought Pentiment was something different, not sure which game I had it confused with, but this doesn't really excite me at all.

 

[begotten]

I wasn't sold on this when I first watched it, but now I think the art-style is really nice and crisp. Can already tell it's going to have a lot of clever gameplay and mechanics weaved into the story.

 

[reksveks]

I need to read the IGN articles I think

 

[GeekyDad]

Looks great. Great RPG idea, presentation, setting, etc. But not a big fan of the art style.

 

[coffinbirth]

Not normally the type of game I would buy, but this is perfect for Game Pass.

 

[Wildebeest]

Seems quite dry. Someone who is as burnt out as me needs a huge incentive to get through all that text.

 

[Teslerum]

 

[Naked Lunch]

This game isnt going to set the world on fire but it looks pretty unique. Very intriguing.
I love seeing period pieces in games - especially from eras you dont normally see.
Cool that its set over the course of 25 years.
Also, that key art with the guy's head in smoke is just awesome.

 

[adamsapple]

Since this is a text only game, this should make for great localization.

 

[schaft0620]

Card Shark is fun as hell and visually way better than this.