Rogue Trader devs Owlcat are making an Expanse RPG with Mass Effect-style combat

Osiris Reborn is an archetypal communicative successful the Syfy universe

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and Pathfinder: Kingmaker developers Owlcat Games are venturing into the realm of "hard sci-fi" with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a caller RPG based connected the James S. A. Corey novels and Syfy TV adaptations. It's an archetypal communicative that casts you arsenic a Pinkwater Security mercenary, who starts retired trapped connected Eros Station - an asteroid basal that undergoes cataclysmic upheaval successful the TV amusement - and aboriginal takes complaint of an precocious starship, truthful arsenic to quest astir the star system. The crippled is inspired by BioWare's Mass Effect series, with "tactical" third-person combat featuring 2 state characters and screen mechanics. Also, unit romances. Here's a trailer.

In a property release, crippled plan shaper Yuliya Chernenko comments that "the archetypal Mass Effect trilogy was perfectly an inspiration to the team", being "iconic for the Xbox 360 procreation of gamers". I was going to get snobby astir that motion to consoles, but past I realised that the condemnation is simply a sick pain connected Mass Effect Andromeda, truthful we'll telephone it square.

Its 360 reasoning aside, Osiris Reborn's combat "reflects the standards of modern enactment gameplay". I'm unconvinced of Owlcat's quality to make a real-time Mass Effect-style squad enactment experience, but they've got ample anterior for the kinds of unit narration dynamics and governmental tensions you find successful some Mass Effect and The Expanse.

Please instrumentality structure down the nearest knee-high aboveground portion I capsicum your presumption with these bulletpoint features, according to what I anticipation is simply a faithful simulation of zero-G physics:

Create Your Own Captain: Play arsenic an Earther, Martian, oregon Belter and instrumentality bid of the system's astir precocious ship. Shape your travel done identity, leadership, and the unit of survival.

Lead a Crew: Your companions are much than squadmates -- they person pasts, motives, and a dependable successful your story. Your enactment decisions volition find however squadmate loyalty shifts nether pressure.

Tactical Third-Person Combat: Implement real-time strategical screen mechanics utilizing assorted abilities and squad coordination. Bring 2 companions into combat portion others enactment from down the scenes.

Explore a Divided Solar System: Travel crossed iconic locations from the TV amusement and books, similar Ganymede, Ceres, Mars, and Luna. While traversing the assorted environments, players indispensable uncover secrets and power outcomes done their skills and decisions.

A Story-Driven RPG True to The Expanse: Immerse yourself successful a communicative grounded successful tension, consequence, and the complexity of humanity's aboriginal among the stars

Osiris Reborn is coming to Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG astatine a day that is not today, nor tomorrow, but "soon".

The developers are astatine pains to reassure that they've got a full caller squad moving connected the happening and that determination is nary overlap with immoderate of Owlcat's different projects, including the precocious revealed Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. They're collaborating connected the crippled with Alcon Interactive Group, publishers of The Expanse: A Telltale Story.