The Expanse: A Telltale Series

Lol, I'm just here after finding out about Owlcats next game. Anyway, I can definitely recommend this game for anyone who is a long time fan of the series, either the TV adaptation or the books. The main story is told solely from Camina Drummers POV before she works for Anderson. The incomparable Cara Gee returns to voice the character. The story itself is plenty engaging, original, and gripping. There are the usual Deck Nine narrative choices that can alter how events play out, but it's clear that decisions are not large in scope. That would require a bigger budget. The DLC focuses on Avasarala portrayed by Shoreh Aghdashloo. It takes place entirely in one office under a security lockdown. Without spoilers, it goes into an interesting emotional moment that her character doesn't often display. No noticeable bugs, played entirely on steam deck, performance was decent. Worth it on sale if you're interested.

Look, the show has a special place in my heart. So I was really excited to play the game. But though the game story so far plays out true to the spirit of the show, the game itself is just plain *not player friendly*! Unskippable dialogues? Come on, that's just inflating the play time. No manual saves? That in itself is bad enough, but I can understand this for a game where "choices matter", for "keeping it real" chique. But coupled with the fact that the game won't tell you that the next action ends a chapter along with all the uncollected loot, logs and secondary objectives, offering no way of even going back a checkpoint? That's just disrespectful to players time and thoroughness. If my choices matter, I should actually have them, like if I'm to decide what's more valuable - somebody's leg or container full of loot, then I should decide that I really want to find the damn crystal before calling it done, not be punished for doing one thing before another with having to replay the entire chapter, not even being to fast-forward to parts I just did.

Perfect for fans of the tv show, and for fans of zero-G space exploration too! Thankfully, I'm both! Camina Drummer is one of the breakout characters from The Expanse show; it's so wonderful spending time with her again, immersing in Belter culture. It's a very gentle/casual gaming experience, which really works to let you settle in for a riveting story...that you get a say in! Doesn't matter if you're beltalowda or inyalowda, you'll find something to enjoy here.

Enjoyed almost all of it. The start is a bit boring but that doesn't last a long time then it picks up. Good story with not too muck phukaround. I liked the characters and the story is good. Downfall is it's a bit short. I would be ready for another 20/40 more hours of this to see where it goes. So if you do want to get it, wait for the sale. What did dislike about it? As with many others, I enjoy character creation and would've rather be someone that represents more of what I am than what I am not so that I can be more immersed. Either way, it's still good. Don't be a fool, download it now. Now I will set off for more Telltale games.

This is my first Taletell game. I couldn't do in one sitting, to busy. I installed, uninstalled, installed, etc... Found the time to finish it after 2 years. Got it on sale, well worth it to just sit down and relax. You do have to be an Expanse fan to appreciate it. Now that I finished it, I want to go back and finish the show. Love the syfy side of the show, hate the political side.

[h1] Telltale, IN SPAAAACCEEEE [/h1] Telltale exercises it's classic masterful storytelling with the Expanse. You don't need to have read the books or seen the show to completely enjoy this game to the fullest. Extremely thankful that all episodes are available as well. I certainly would have been lost if I needed to wait for more episodes to drop. The Expanse delivers incredible performances with deeply nuanced emotion. Each character is deeply mysterious and abundantly human. While I would love to play another telltale title in the Expanse universe, I don't find myself that interested in pursuing the show or the books, I think there could have been a little more set up to direct players to the original IP. But that's neither here nor there on the quality of the game itself. I think that as long as players understand that this is a largely narrative experience, and not a space opera to the likes of star wars or mass effect you will have a great time. There is not really any combat beyond some QTEs and a majority of the gameplay revolves around pursuing the story. It is significantly different from other telltale titles as well, it was refreshing to see the studio venture into a new setting.

This game is awesome. As a big fan of The Expanse Books and the TV series, I recomend this game to everyone who loves it too. But the story is so well made that it can be enjoyable even for a casual player who likes story / telltall games. I recomend it to everyone and also go watch the TV series, its wonderful.

This lacks the depth that Walking Dead had. Too short to build synergy between NPC's. Camina Drummer and the graphics are great. Thats about it. For the Talltales fans its a bad game and for the Expanse fans its hard OK. Would not recommend with full price.

A solid 7/10 for fans of The Expanse. Scenes feel mildly disjointed at times, but still great to explore a little bit of this universe. with Drummer. Quite short, worth picking up on sale. As for the DLC, if you want to send a few emails and work out 2-3 basic puzzles as Avasarala, you can do that. It's over quite quickly.

Shorter than you expect like Telltale games always are, but it's a really good story. I also just really love the Expanse universe (this game has prompted me to start re-reading the series again) so if you also love the Expanse then you'll probably get a kick out of this game

Excellent cinematic adventure as a 'beltalowda' captain, for fans of The Expanse, Drummer is one of the popular take-charge-and-move-out female characters, this game takes place before the series makes her a prominent character in the show. Space is beautiful, space is deadly, choices matter, even if it's poking fun at someone in the first episode, they come back to haunt you later. A surprisingly detailed space combat experience as shown on TV, fights are short and fast as expected of the more pragmatic Belter culture and relatively simple spaceships. It's a very short adventure but a memorable one, get it on sale, play it once with your own gamer instincts and another actually understanding the main character and the Belter language and culture, it's worth it for a tenner.

I can't say enough good things about this game. I'm currently downloading it so I can replay it if that tells you anything. Drummer was always one of my favorite characters from the show, so being able to play her and look into her background is a definite selling point. Telltale is back, and firing on all cylinders. Would love to see more entries into The Expanse universe.

Like most telltale games, the story is good. I was unfamiliar with the world of this game, but it didn't matter. I am thinking of giving the show a watch now.

Dialogue and scenes that can't be skipped on replay, quick time events, questionable player agency in the outcomes of choices. Does a awful job of placing itself in a *hard sci-fi* gritty world where *small details matter* and people live and die by single mistakes made (forgetting to bring suit sealant patches, not double-checking the RCS was refilled before doing an EVA, or not double-latching their helmet). It's clear Taletale has passing-at-best familiarity with (and limited respect) for the source. Likely did not hire a science consultant to check the script... or someone familiar with action choreography to block-out out their gunfights. If any of the below (mostly spoiler free) would ruin your immersion, this will likely be infuriating to play: - The main drive is turned off during a "slingshot" (gravity assist) maneuver, and everyone is still acting like they're feeling 8Gs of force (even though they should basically be in freefall... and even if we didn't understand orbital mechanics... why is the engine off?) - Performing a "slingshot" (gravity assist) maneuver using a small asteroid at a distance far enough away that any gravity would be negligible - Not making use of spare oxygen/scrubbers from other suits that you pass (on recently dead people) when you're expecting to run out of O2 - Returning to a breach pod after you've given your primary weapon to someone else, and not taking a new one from the open box of shotguns - Taking a shotgun with you to kill someone you know is carrying a sealed biohazard container filled with something you know is highly infectious and deadly (you do not have a helmet on) - Trying to sneak up on someone who (canonically) has been watching you on camera-feeds move through the corridors to their location, and literally passing a screen that shows the corridor you just came from as you try to line up a shot - The above almost working, but you can't shoot them because you're... out of ammo? - Not keeping your EVA suit and helmet on during a hostile boarding action - Gathering resources into sealed pressurized cargo containers... from the interior of a wreck that has no pressurized compartments left (gathing things long-exposed to vacuum to put them in a pressurized container before bringing them back to the ship) - Explosively decompressing a sealed cargo container to free something it's pinning, instead of just letting it decompress normally and using the cutting tool in your hand to cut a corner off - Taking down someone you know is hostile to you, and leaving them (stunned but clearly not unconcious) behind you with their gun in easy grabbing-distance, when you probably even had time to tie them up - Able to CQC with someone who is a legendary fighter and win, unable to win hand-to-hand against someone who was shot (with bullets, in case it wasn't clear), in both shoulders, ~4 minutes ago. - Desperately trying to get away, burning at >7Gs, then laying off to zero-thrust (or 1G, it's unclear) for multiple minutes (implied 15+ mins) so everyone can "take a breather" instead maintaining a lower constant burn, and doing this on/off rotation multiple times (unclear why this was expected to work) - Because of the above you're canonically running out of fuel pellets to (re)start the engine - People get out of the crash couches when the above occurs, and don't go back in when a hostile ship is detected

I was satisfied with this as a prequel to the Expanse TV show. Its a good but not great Telltale game, but I enjoyed it for a single play through. It gets a lot of the details right (like the point defense cannons), but also some details very wrong (the kind of details that easily kill people in Expanse outer space, like forgetting to bring your suit sealant patches.) How much this bothers someone varies from player to player. In addition, The actress for Camina Drummer does a very good job reprising the character here. Belter culture is very well represented over all, and the dlc is a good episode for Avasarala fans. Not a lot to chew on for the MCRN though.

Compared to the TV seasons and compared to the written books this game is a poor variant of lower imagination and limited scope, broken episodes lacking continuity. Yes the aim-and-shoot action is OK on the front plane, but this is all of it. As Chat GPT is pointing out the game play is linear, light on interactions, short episodes. On the second plane (of depth, and this is shallow) the player can decide to engage the main character yes/no in a lesbian sleep together. This is similar to buying ice cream and finding a piece of bacon in it. Some players may enjoy this diversion. I do consider this a distraction that lowers this game's quality, Do I really need to enable the sexual preferences of the game's characters? Bad taste, sledge hammer approach.Perhaps the game creators needed to add value to this game by injecting sexual variables to supplement talent gaps.

ZERO GRAVITY SIMULATOR w/too much dialogue As someone who didn't watch thew show/movie I can appreciate that they really thought a lot about the story/lore and represented it well, but I could not have been more disengaged and bored with the gameplay... Wait til its on sale

My space girlfriend died in my arms. Also I didn't get to make a lot of decisions the way I would want to, most of the story felt like it wasn't impacted by my decisions.

Great story

Fun game.

simply put. made me cry

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First three episodes were kind of good, especially liked the zero gravity stuff. Kind of fell apart at the end, episode 4 was basically "walk very slowly" and episode 5 just had a few QTE's and no exploration. I would have liked to give the game a solid thumb sideways, but steam only have up and down.