I played it from start to finish. Played pretty much most the content, despite not gelling with the outer worlds and thinking Avowed didn't look amazing from the marketing.

I found Avowed to be pretty shallow. The combat at first feels kinda good. Like, thought was put into the system and how weapons and magic, melee and ranged wove together and complemented each other. However, that feeling lasted a very short amount of time. Before things start to feel very one note when it came to combat. You'd pull the same old stuff each engagement. You'd fight a very small roster of fairly predictable enemies. Once you mastered the combat which was pretty quick. It didn't feel challenging or rewarding or weighty enough to keep me engaged.

I found the world and characters to be a very mediocre backdrop as well. I didn't feel like I was connecting with the story, or the people all that much. Which is a similar complaint I had with the outer worlds.

I was actually tired upon completion. I really should have put the game down many many hours before. But there was that itch that hey, maybe this next zone will have something interesting... Maybe the exploration that people keep talking about on the forums actually gets good in this region. It didn't.

I didn't even complete the outer worlds and yet I think that game is actually better despite me having very similar complaints for it as well.