Obsidian Entertainment games

About Obsidian Entertainment

Based in California, Obsidian Entertainment has built its reputation on writing-led role-playing games where party composition, faction loyalties and conversation choices shape how a story resolves. Its work sits firmly in the RPG tradition, with isometric parties and character systems that reward planning.

Pillars of Eternity is the series most closely associated with the studio, a return to classic party-based fantasy adventuring with its own world, factions and lore. Alpha Protocol takes the same interest in branching dialogue into a modern spy thriller with action elements.

Games in the catalogue

The Pillars of Eternity line is the core of the range. The first game appears in its Hero Edition and in a collection bundle that gathers the series together, while Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire carries the story into a seafaring archipelago. Alpha Protocol rounds out the selection with a third-person spy story.

Expansions and add-ons make up a sizeable part of the listings, including the White March expansion for Pillars of Eternity and the Deadfire season pass. These require the matching base game on the same account.

Platforms include Steam, GOG.com and Xbox, with genres spanning role-playing, action and story-rich adventure. Everything in the range is sold as a key.

How buying works

Each game activates on the platform its listing names: Steam keys are redeemed in the Steam client or website, GOG.com codes are added to a GOG account, and Xbox codes are entered through the console or Microsoft account. If you have not redeemed a code before, the Steam activation guide walks through the steps.

Games are sold per region, and a key has to match the region of the account redeeming it, so check the region of a listing against your store account before buying. The region locking article explains how this works in practice.