Can the Upcoming ‘Expanse’ Game Avoid ‘Mass Effect’s’ Biggest Mistake?

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A main theme of the nine-book sci-fi series The Expanse is that sometimes you may never know the consequences of a choice you made. The universe, utterly indifferent black box that it is, “never tells us if we did right or wrong,” as the character Naomi Nagata puts it in The Expanse TV show.

That’s the line the developer of the upcoming Expanse video game has adopted as its own slogan. The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is set to release in spring 2027. It’s being developed by Owlcat Games, the Cyprus-based developer known for dense role-playing games like Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader.

Osiris Rebornis a third-person shooter and role-playing game where the player slips into the boots of a spaceship captain leading a found-family crew of misfits across the far-future solar system. You fight bad guys and float around in zero-gravity environments in the hard-science setting...

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