It wasn’t too much of a surprise to hear that developer Telltale was coming back with an episodic game based on SyFy and Amazon’s popular sci-fi series The Expanse. Before it was shut down and revived, Telltale made a name for itself on such licensed games.
But this The Expanse game comes before all that. It’s set before the first season of the TV show and follows a character named Carmina Drummer, played by an actress named Cara Gee in both the show and the game. Drummer first appears in the show as the stoic assistant to OPA leader Fred Johnson on Tycho Station.
Frost tells Digital Trends this is something he did with new members of the development team. The story follows Carmina Drummer as she works with, and eventually takes control of, the scavenger crew on a ship called the Artemis. It’s a bit of a space pirate adventure, although the game does have a darker tone than that kind of description suggests.
Through and through, this is very much a narrative adventure game in the style of Telltale’s classics. Whether you’re a fan of The Expanse or just Telltale’s formula, you can find something to enjoy here. And while Deck Nine could’ve stopped there and made the choices the only real interesting thing about The Expanse: A Telltale Series, they went a step further, adding zero gravity sections that feel more like Dead Space than The Wolf Among Us.
Everyone on this ship was brutally murdered, too, with their heads chopped off, so exploring is a pretty tense and creepy experience. While it lacks any of the combat and more terrifying moments of Dead Space, it certainly felt a lot like I was playing EA Motive’s excellent remake as I floated through space in zero-G and saw the aftermath of a horrifying event that I’m mostly in the dark about. It’s a killer combination and works just as well as Life is Strange: True Colors’ RPG chapter.
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