Pentiment may not look the part of a big console exclusive, but based on our demo at Gamescom, this narrative RPG is the Xbox game to watch this fall.
This holiday season is shaping up to be an unusual one for Xbox owners. Players aren’t getting a big-ticket game like Halo Infinite or Forza Horizon 5, leaving parents scrambling to figure out a clear gift this year. Instead, Microsoft is pushing a series of smaller titles set to debut on Xbox Game Pass. That list includes comedic shooter High on Life, biopunk horror game Scorn, and indie darling Slime Rancher 2. But the most intriguing game on Xbox’s slate is also the most atypical: Pentiment.
Ye olde sleuth Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a studio known for acclaimed RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas, Pentiment looks like the kind of indie game you’d stumble across while browsing through Xbox Game Pass. It’s a 2D narrative RPG set in 16th-century Bavaria and features an illustrative art style that’s reminiscent of medieval paintings.
Those skills would become crucial during my demo as I was given three different leads to explore. As I weighed my options, I talked to some of the townsfolk. When trying to shake some information from one friend, I was given a dialogue option that would let me make a grand speech promising he could trust me thanks to my orator trait. He knew I was full of it, but he was swayed by my words nonetheless.
That’s when I learned that there was more to the game than just choosing dialogue options. As I listened, the game cut to a close-up of a bug crawling on me. I had to hit the A button to quickly wipe it off before I made a noise. This would happen again, but I didn’t anticipate the button prompt would change. I screeched, spooking the fisherman and moving him away from the pond before I could get any gossip.
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