Game News Pentiment releasing on November 15th, now available for preorder

[Infinitron]

Tags: Hannah Kennedy; Josh Sawyer; Obsidian Entertainment; Pentiment

In a rare victory for creative integrity over marketing, Josh Sawyer's historical murder mystery game Pentiment was rebranded from RPG to "narrative-driven game" soon after it was announced back in June. However for completeness sake, we will continue to cover the game here until its release. Earlier today, Obsidian announced that Pentiment would be launching on November 15th and opened up preorders. There was no trailer for this announcement, but the game did appear on IGN's Gamescom stream this afternoon, presented by Josh and artist Hannah Kennedy. Topics covered during the segment included the game's artistic vision and its implementation of choice & consequence in a storyline spanning over twenty five years.

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Numerous previews of Pentiment were published today as well, covering many of the same topics. Here's a list of them:

Ars Technica​

Checkpointgaming​

COGconnected​

Comics Gaming Magazine​

Destructoid​

Game Rant​

GamesHub​

GameSpot​

God is a Geek​

Kakuchopurei​

Metro​

MobileSyrup​

Paste Magazine​

PC Gamer​

Polygon​

Pure Xbox​

Screen Rant​

Stevivor​

TechRaptor​

The Guardian​

The Washington Post​

Pentiment is now available for preorder on Steam for $20, though it's clearly expected that most people will be playing via PC Game Pass. I assume we'll get to see more of the game during tomorrow's Xbox stream.

 

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[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

How many black people will this historically accurate game set in medieval Germany/Bavaria have?

Hopefully at least 50 percent.

 

[Alienman]

Real Sawyer description in the description box.

 

[Immortal]

Roguey you gonna play this? Or pass on nuu-josh?

 

[Roguey]

Roguey you gonna play this? Or pass on nuu-josh?

I'm not interested.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

A game no longer being an RPG is a victory for RPG Codex?

 

[Aemar]

A game no longer being an RPG is a victory for RPG Codex?

Most likely a future contender for a spot on the Top 101 RPGs list.

 

[Nazrim Eldrak]

Sounds more like an adventure game.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

A game no longer being an RPG is a victory for RPG Codex?

A game no longer being considered an RPG is a victory if the game is designed by Josh Sawyer.

 

[jdinatale]

The art style makes me want to commit sudoku.

 

[Darth Roxor]

However for completeness sake, we will continue to cover the game here until its release.

i.e. this is required to fulfil the contract with obsidian

 

[lukaszek]

Can someone explain to me how this game is different form D**** E******? I have not played DE, but I wan't to know how do they differ?

less communism

 

[Modron]

More gameplay.

 

[Infinitron]

This game is explicitly not a Disco Elysium clone. In terms of gameplay it's inspired by artsy indie games such as Night in the Woods and Oxenfree.

 

[lukaszek]

This game is explicitly not a Disco Elysium clone. In terms of gameplay it's inspired by artsy indie games such as Night in the Woods and Oxenfree.

but does it endorse communism

 

[lukaszek]

Thankfully there was no politics in the Middle Ages so we're safe from that debate at the very least.

pre marxist communism! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism

 

[luj1]

Looks super boring

 

[Jaesun]

If this Wasn't an XBox exclusive, I'd honestly be interested. Just from a system design perspective.

 

[Tweed]

Sawyer Joshlysium. I think I'll pass.

 

[karoliner]

This game is explicitly not a Disco Elysium clone. In terms of gameplay it's inspired by artsy indie games such as Night in the Woods and Oxenfree.

That's even worse.

 

[Infinitron]

If this Wasn't an XBox exclusive, I'd honestly be interested. Just from a system design perspective.

It's not an Xbox exclusive.

 

[Jaesun]

If this Wasn't an XBox exclusive, I'd honestly be interested. Just from a system design perspective.

It's not an Xbox exclusive.

This will be for PC?

 

[Modron]

You'll probably have to end up making an xbox live account for this despite the page not list needing a third party account yet as that has been the case for every other game with the publisher xbox game studios.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

If this Wasn't an XBox exclusive, I'd honestly be interested. Just from a system design perspective.

It's not an Xbox exclusive.

This will be for PC?

Yeah. Console exclusives are kinda done. It’s more “ecosystem exclusives” for Sony and Microsoft games. Ecosystem meaning PC and whatever their console is.