“Hear Me Out”, Says Avowed Player Who Wants To Bonk The Mushroom Enemies

Don’t you just regret opening Reddit sometimes? I do. But I’m a serious games journalist (email in bio), so I’m gonna share my regrets with you, and we can all bow our heads in shame together. Avowed fans, I see you.

You know a game’s doing pretty well when its community starts thirsting over the weird, vaguely humanoid characters. Or just a bear, in the case of Baldur’s Gate 3. For Avowed, it’s a dead mushroom enemy with a thicc dumpy, which as u/cloodhee so elegantly put it, belongs in the “Don’t Put Your Di** In That” subreddit. Seriously, it might look like a Fungi, but it’s probably poisonous.

u/morning_thief, however, worries me. “(Sigh),” they commented. “(unzips)”. Unfortunately, they’re not alone. Even though the world is full of handsome fish people and fuzzy, ugly Sonic lookalikes (everyone has a type), there are a lot of fans who are more into spores. “Hear me out,” u/FitBattle5899 said. “Stupid sexy fungus,” u/CokeWest said. “Would,” u/Hungry-Ear-4092 commented.

Not Everyone Is Into Avowed’s Fungal Monsters

But I’d like to counterbalance all this talk of bonking mushrooms with some level-headed debate, like u/CordiallySuckMyBalls, who has really taken into consideration the finer details of getting down and dirty with their mushy pals: “I bet the texture is awful”.

u/Wynter_born, who has been downvoted by the Avowed community, just doesn’t vibe with all the shrooms. “The colourful fungal theme kinda grosses me out visually. When I had to choose a ‘godlike feature’ […] I was really turned off.”

But I think u/DeleteIn25 put it best, “Humanity fell off hard ngl”.

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Released

February 18, 2025

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Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence