Pentiment Director said that the Obsidian Entertainment 2D 2D-game was originally planned under the name PalimpSest. The name was supplemented by the artistic style of the game, reminiscent of manuscripts of the late Middle Ages. This name remained workers for some time, until the legal team of Microsoft has been worried.

They foresaw potential problems with the PALIMPSEST trademark, so the adventure game was renamed into a more harmonious name – Pentiment. Josh Soyer, Pentiment’s gamer, made this revelation on his Tumblr. He answered the fan’s question on this platform. Josh said,

The initial non -working name Pentiment was actually PalimpSest! The legal service of Microsoft felt potential difficulties in obtaining this name, so I renamed it to Pentiment.

There were assumptions about the possible continuation of Pentiment. As a possible name for the aforementioned sequel, Palimpsest was called. But Josh stopped these rumors. According to him, he always wanted Pentiment to be "independent history", and that he is not going to release his 2D game based on the narrative. Although he did not exclude the possibility of creating a game on pentiment.

And no, I do not plan to release any continuation, spiritual or other, for Pentiment. I always conceived it as an independent history. She can inspire ideas (I hope not only me!) in the future, but I am pleased with what we stopped at.

Fans were very amused by such a discovery. Most of them expressed the opinion that Pentiment sounds much better than the working name of the game, since PalimpSest seems multiple. Fans also agreed with Josh’s decision regarding Pentiment’s sequel. In their opinion, the story of a two-dimensional game reached its completion, but they would not mind if the team had something new to add to this story. Moreover, they hope that Obsidian Entertainment will promote small projects such as Pentiment.

Pentiment is a narrative-adventure single-user 2D game developed by Obsidian Entertainment for the Xbox Game Studios. It was released on November 15, 2022. The game takes place in a fictional alpine town Tassing in Upper Bavaria in the 16th century. The plot of the game revolves around the secret of the murder, where the player has to collect evidence, walking around the city and talking with the townspeople.