A very trite evaluation that belies a quick cursory playthrough. If you want player agency, where you can be a murder hobo cleptomaniac with a voracious lust for anything with a pulse, I wouldn't recommend Avowed. Rather Avowed is a choice driven narrative, not a sandbox. The details are everywhere. E.g. if you free Ilora, the smuggler in the tutorial, you'll find her around the main hub of every area. The game is full of these consequences and effects. Most aren't story adjascent so its easy to miss, especially if you fast travel. It's a visual novel with some combat, explorarion, puzzle solving, and platforming mixed in. Just because it doesn't spoon feed the best option doesn't innately make it a bad game. Also, KM on Xbox is lacking sorely. But on PC KM is good to the point of being a trite point again. Unfortunately, Avowed relies a lot on a players imagination which hasn't been fosted in the contemporary gaming community.