{"id":1350812,"date":"2025-10-08T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pYn6Gmjz2b7RpEWNG8S6kg"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:44:55","slug":"its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-fing-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-fing-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s literally impossible to pick the &#8216;real&#8217; murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: &#8216;You&#8217;re not a detective, you&#8217;re a f***ing artist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Obsidian&#8217;s Pentiment is one of the most interesting games of the last several years. Set in 16th-century Bavaria, the game tasks you\u2014journeyman artist Andreas Maler\u2014with figuring out who keeps doin&#8217; murders in the town of Tassing. There are plenty of potential suspects you can point the finger at, and you have to choose one whether you&#8217;ve got damning evidence or not.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler: you will never have damning evidence. Regardless of who you send under the headsman&#8217;s axe, you&#8217;ll always have a queasy feeling that they might not be the one who did it.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with PCG at this year&#8217;s GDC, Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said that&#8217;s entirely the point. &#8220;From the very beginning I said, &#8216;I think that for this to be compelling in the way that I want it to be, there cannot be a right answer'&#8221;. In fact, it sounds like Sawyer himself doesn&#8217;t have a clear culprit in mind for the game&#8217;s evildoings. &#8220;People on the team would ask me [who the culprit is], then people at Xbox would ask me, and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;No! There isn&#8217;t!&#8217; And I will say that there are people who, in retrospect\u2026 seem more likely to have done it, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer, who also led development on games like Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, approached the issue of (not) selecting a culprit from the perspective of an RPG maker. &#8220;When there&#8217;s always a right answer and it&#8217;s a puzzle and you kind of either get it right or you get it wrong\u2026 I just don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a lot there from an RPG developer&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It made me think, well, what if you didn&#8217;t know and you just had to keep going, right? And in the way that we do RPGs: choice and consequences, we say, &#8216;You made this choice. If you have second thoughts, you&#8217;ve just got to live with that'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9ckyTxRwkiyCXaBDqQaLW9\" name=\"20221105175946_1.jpg\" alt=\"An image of Pentiment showing Andreas talking with Saint Grobian.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-fing-artist.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Obsidian)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the role you have in Pentiment? Andreas. &#8220;You&#8217;re not a detective, you&#8217;re a fucking artist. You&#8217;re not good at this,&#8221; says Sawyer. &#8220;You&#8217;re doing the best you can to prevent a good friend who\u2014very obviously\u2014is not the person who did it, from dying.&#8221; That&#8217;s Piero, the lovely old monk who&#8217;s initially fingered for murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the other thing\u2026 Andreas, the character you&#8217;re playing, he is motivated to prevent Piero from dying, and will never offer him up, because it&#8217;s inconceivable to him that Piero could have done this. That&#8217;s sort of like, sorry player, Andreas will not allow Piero to die. You have to pick someone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"e891aa7c-349b-44a0-b6f7-6fde3d52c90a\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best laptop games\" data-dimension48=\"Best laptop games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:146px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"o2twU6ehEfeJDWWUZMiEsB\" name=\"stardew square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-fing-artist-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"146\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-laptop-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"e891aa7c-349b-44a0-b6f7-6fde3d52c90a\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best laptop games\" data-dimension48=\"Best laptop games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best laptop games<\/strong><\/a>: Low-spec life<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/steam-deck-best-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best Steam Deck games<\/strong><\/a>: Handheld must-haves<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-browser-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best browser games<\/strong><\/a>: No install needed<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-indie-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best indie games<\/strong><\/a>: Independent excellence<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/adventure\/its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-f-ing-artist\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obsidian&#8217;s Pentiment is one of the most interesting games of the last several years. Set in 16th-century Bavaria, the game tasks you\u2014journeyman artist Andreas Maler\u2014with figuring out who keeps doin&#8217; murders in the town of Tassing. There are plenty of potential suspects you can point the finger at, and you have to choose one whether you&#8217;ve got damning evidence or not. Spoiler: you will never have damning evidence. Regardless of who you send under the headsman&#8217;s axe, you&#8217;ll always have a queasy feeling that they might not be the one who did it. In a chat with PCG at this year&#8217;s GDC, Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said that&#8217;s entirely the point. &#8220;From the very beginning I said, &#8216;I think that for this to be compelling&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/its-literally-impossible-to-pick-the-real-murderer-in-pentiment-because-obsidian-never-considered-having-one-youre-not-a-detective-youre-a-fing-artist\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[130,748],"class_list":["post-1350812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-adventure","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s literally impossible to pick the &#039;real&#039; murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: &#039;You&#039;re not a detective, you&#039;re a f***ing artist&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Obsidian&#039;s Pentiment is one of the most interesting games of the last several years. 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