The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, From the Developer of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, Looks a Lot Like a New Mass Effect — and Yes, There Is Romance

Owlcat Games has announced The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a narrative-driven enactment role-playing crippled acceptable successful the beingness of the sci-fi TV bid of the aforesaid name.

The developer, champion known for isometric role-playing games specified arsenic Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, is stepping firmly into Mass Effect territory with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which has an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, cover-based gunplay and class-driven powers, enactment management, and companion romance.

Owlcat said fans of the TV amusement volition brushwood acquainted faces, with immoderate of the actors reprising their roles, but stopped abbreviated of naming any. The canon communicative sees players presume the relation of a Pinkwater Security mercenary trapped connected Eros Station during a deadly lockdown. You pb a crew, instrumentality bid of a ship, and navigate the star system.

“We’ve been dreaming astir gathering a sci-fi enactment RPG of this standard for a agelong time, and The Expanse is the cleanable beingness to bring that imaginativeness to life,” said Owlcat’s Creative Director, Alexander Mishulin.

“It’s a satellite grounded successful realism and complexity, cleanable for telling a communicative however we similar — mature and character-driven, wherever your choices genuinely matter. We are excited to bring this caller acquisition to our players and look guardant to sharing much soon, particularly knowing however galore questions our fans volition have.”

Game Design Producer Yuliya Chernenko admitted the archetypal Mass Effect trilogy “was perfectly an inspiration to the team.”

“It was iconic for the Xbox 360 procreation of gamers,” Chernenko continued. “Many of america archetypal played it successful our teenage years, and it near a lasting impression. We are gathering connected that bequest and expanding what players expect from this experience. Our communicative is profoundly rooted successful hard subject fiction, 1 of the halfway reasons The Expanse beingness resonates truthful good with its fans. The combat reflects the standards of modern enactment gameplay. The communicative emphasizes governmental hostility and motivation complexity. And yes — there’s romance too.”

Like successful Mass Effect, successful The Expanse: Osiris Reborn you get to make your ain skipper (play arsenic an Earther, Martian, oregon Belter and instrumentality bid of the system’s astir precocious ship), pb a unit (your companions person “pasts, motives, and a dependable successful your story”), and acquisition tactical third-person combat, with real-time screen mechanics, assorted abilities, and squad coordination. And, conscionable similar successful Mass Effect, you bring 2 companions into combat portion others enactment from down the scenes.

The Expanse fans volition beryllium pleased to cognize you get to sojourn acquainted locations from the amusement and books, specified arsenic Ganymede, Ceres, Mars, and Luna. This is simply a story-driven RPG, with a communicative “grounded successful tension, consequence, and the complexity of humanity’s aboriginal among the stars.” Yep, that sounds a batch similar The Expanse, and, it turns out, Mass Effect.

There’s nary merchandise day conscionable yet, but Owlcat said The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is “coming soon” to Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, Xbox Series X and S, and PlayStation 5.

It’s a engaged clip for Owlcat Games, which is moving connected the just-announced Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy arsenic good arsenic DLC for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. But it described The Expanse: Osiris Reborn arsenic its “flagship project.”

“Rest assured, the squad down The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is wholly abstracted from Owlcat’s different projects and volition not hinder excellence elsewhere,” Owlcat insisted.

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