Avowed

Play it on: (And on and on and on and on and on) PC

Current goal: Defeat tyranny

I’ve been playing Avowed for weeks now, meticulously mining it for every single crumb of story and quest and conversation and surprise and impromptu battle and, you know, stuff. And I’ve been doing it on a PC build that—unlike everyone else I know playing it on PC—crashes every couple of hours. There’s no clue when it’ll happen, and because it took me until literally today to discover there’s a quicksave button (F5), I have now got over 230 save games. (No, it crashed before I had 230 save games. It seems fine with that.) But I love it so much that, if anything, these CTDs have been the only reason I’ve gone to bed any night for the past couple of weeks.

I’m still not done! I’m threateningly close to done, the story is hinting, which is making me worry, because if I finish it, then it won’t be unfinished anymore. There’s a reason I’ve never seen the ending of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Original Sin 2. I think I have a problem, don’t I? But I’m determined to finish Avowed, even if it means my life feels bereft as a result. I could maybe go finish Baldur’s Gate 3 right after! — John Walker