{"id":1251328,"date":"2026-03-01T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/F5XyRLNMk2Jzi8jaKDyUHE"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:06:08","slug":"the-expanse-rpgs-developers-are-humbled-by-comparisons-to-biowares-heyday-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-straight-mass-effect-clone-we-make-our-story-a-little-bit-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-expanse-rpgs-developers-are-humbled-by-comparisons-to-biowares-heyday-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-straight-mass-effect-clone-we-make-our-story-a-little-bit-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"The Expanse RPG&#8217;s developers are &#8216;humbled&#8217; by comparisons to BioWare&#8217;s heyday, but don&#8217;t expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: &#8216;We make our story a little bit differently&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Through this summer&#8217;s deluge of game announcements, nothing made me sit up quite so fast as<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/theyre-making-an-action-rpg-based-on-the-expanse-and-its-got-mass-effect-vibes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Owlcat revealing it&#8217;s making an Expanse RPG<\/a>. One that seems, from its initial trailer at least, heavily inspired by<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/mass-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mass Effect<\/a>. Much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed PC gaming&#8217;s recent return to highly complex CRPGs, watching the trailer made me realise how much I miss a bit of BioWare-style guns &#038; conversation. The Expanse: Osiris Reborn seems to channel that era of roleplaying in all the right ways.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Osiris Reborn&#8217;s creative director Alexander Mishulin has addressed the comparisons directly. Speaking to<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/gaming\/611007\/expanse-osiris-reborn-mass-effect-comparisons\" target=\"_blank\"> Polygon<\/a>, Mishulin said that he was &#8220;humbled&#8221; by players aligning Owlcat&#8217;s latest with BioWare&#8217;s beloved sci-fi series. &#8220;Mass Effect is a great inspiration for us because it\u2019s an iconic game for [the] Xbox 360 generation, and a lot of [Owlcat] team members played it in their youth,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;It would be impossible to deny that Mass Effect has [had] a lot of impact on us as game developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That said, Mishulin stressed Osiris Reborn won&#8217;t completely mimic Mass Effect&#8217;s design. This is particularly the case with branching narrative. &#8220;We make our story a little bit differently. We\u2019re making more choices and consequences, and we want to make sure that this game still has a lot of them provided with a lot of agency,&#8221; Mishulin said.<\/p>\n<p>One example Mishilin cited is how players can choose a different planetary origin for their character, and the way this plays into how other characters perceive you. &#8220;If you happen to be playing a character of Mars origin or Earth origin\u2014and you will be able to select your origin from the start\u2014you will not be very welcomed on Ceres,&#8221; Mishulin said.&#8221; But if you will be playing Belter origin, you will be much more welcomed, and you will have more opportunities, more places to visit, probably some new side quests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Mishulin stated that Owlcat is looking to streamline Mass Effect&#8217;s template, observing that players are now &#8220;accustomed to a lot more convenient user interfaces, convenient approaches to gameplay&#8221;. Apart from making me feel astonishingly old, I genuinely don&#8217;t know how you can make an RPG more streamlined than, say, Mass Effect 2, the whole point of which was to sand down the edges of the original.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m glad someone is picking up Mass Effect&#8217;s baton. It&#8217;s going to be a while until we get a new entry in the series from BioWare itself, and that&#8217;s assuming it ever comes out at all. Given how severely EA cut back the studio following the<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/new-report-details-dragon-age-the-veilguards-ugly-failure-through-live-service-flip-flops-rewrites-and-conflicts-with-mass-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\"> underperformance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard<\/a>, another game from BioWare is<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/ea-has-learned-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-dragon-age-the-veilguard-and-its-going-to-be-disastrous-for-the-future-of-mass-effect-if-it-even-has-a-future\/\" target=\"_blank\"> by no means guaranteed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"4c2fc3de-468e-4770-abf1-5c4bb8e9dd4f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-expanse-rpgs-developers-are-humbled-by-comparisons-to-biowares-heyday-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-straight-mass-effect-clone-we-make-our-story-a-little-bit-differently.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"4c2fc3de-468e-4770-abf1-5c4bb8e9dd4f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/the-expanse-rpgs-developers-are-humbled-by-comparisons-to-biowares-heyday-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-straight-mass-effect-clone-we-make-our-story-a-little-bit-differently\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this summer&#8217;s deluge of game announcements, nothing made me sit up quite so fast as Owlcat revealing it&#8217;s making an Expanse RPG. One that seems, from its initial trailer at least, heavily inspired by Mass Effect. Much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed PC gaming&#8217;s recent return to highly complex CRPGs, watching the trailer made me realise how much I miss a bit of BioWare-style guns &#038; conversation. The Expanse: Osiris Reborn seems to channel that era of roleplaying in all the right ways. Now, Osiris Reborn&#8217;s creative director Alexander Mishulin has addressed the comparisons directly. Speaking to Polygon, Mishulin said that he was &#8220;humbled&#8221; by players aligning Owlcat&#8217;s latest with BioWare&#8217;s beloved sci-fi series. &#8220;Mass Effect is a great inspiration for us because it\u2019s an iconic&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-expanse-rpgs-developers-are-humbled-by-comparisons-to-biowares-heyday-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-straight-mass-effect-clone-we-make-our-story-a-little-bit-differently\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1251328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Expanse RPG&#039;s developers are &#039;humbled&#039; by comparisons to BioWare&#039;s heyday, but don&#039;t expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: &#039;We make our story a little bit differently&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Through this summer&#039;s deluge of game announcements, nothing made me sit up quite so fast as Owlcat revealing it&#039;s making an Expanse RPG. 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