Pentiment

The following contains mild spoilers for Pentiment. If you haven’t played it yet, go do that right now! Then come back and see us. Obsidian is in peak form, if you ask me We’re already…

Obsidian Entertainment has announced that update 1.1 for Pentiment is now live, which includes a brand-new minigame, a collection of quality of life improvements, and…

Fallout veteran Josh Sawyer says his “niche” new game Pentiment would not exist without Xbox Game Pass. The murder mystery from Obsidian Entertainment released earlier this week on Game…

A history that almost wasn’t Pentiment is out this week for PC and Xbox, and it sounds like that might not have happened if not for Xbox Game Pass. In a new interview with Waypoint,…

Obsidian Entertainment’s latest game, Pentiment, takes its title from the term pentimento, a change made by an artist while painting. Its origin is the Italian word pentirsi, which means to…

Does playing an artist in 16th-century Bavaria sound appealing to you? What if I told you the game in question had no voice-over, unfurled its narrative in slowly-rendered text, and that, as…

The best stories in video games manage to fuse narrative, art, and gameplay in a way that elevates all three. Pentiment, the latest from Obsidian Entertainment, is a perfect example of this,…

Though Pentiment doesn't look like your typical pre-Black Friday game from a major publisher like Xbox Game Studios, it's maybe hitting at just the right time--after all,…

I loved reading history books growing up, especially those written more like a storied account of what happened as opposed to straight facts on the page. There's an implied…

A historical whodunnit Real history is an interesting setting for games to use. Pulling in actual world events to tell a tale can be tricky, but Pentiment does it in stride. Pentiment is a…