The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Gets a Debut Gameplay Trailer With Big Mass Effect Vibes, a Closed Beta, and a Spring 2027 Release Window

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is making a large splash with a slew of announcements, each revolving astir its archetypal gameplay trailer.

Owlcat Games, the workplace down the well-received role-playing crippled Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, is making a large propulsion into third-person sci-fi enactment with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which is acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic the much-loved books and show. It’s got beardown Mass Effect vibes, which you tin spot from the trailer, below.

At the Xbox Partner Preview showcase, Owlcat said The Expanse: Osiris Reborn volition get a closed beta connected April 22, and Microsoft confirmed it had picked up the crippled arsenic a time 1 motorboat for Game Pass. The beta volition tally until the game’s motorboat successful outpouring 2027.

The closed beta volition beryllium disposable connected Xbox Series X and S, PC via Steam, and PlayStation 5 to everyone who buys the Collector’s Edition oregon Miller’s Pack. The closed beta volition springiness players a consciousness for the game’s combat, question successful the zero-g environment, and dealing with beingness and decease connected a distant abstraction station.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is simply a story-driven enactment RPG acceptable successful The Expanse beingness with absorption connected companions, subordinate choices, and dynamic third-person combat. As a Pinkwater Security mercenary who survives a catastrophic incidental connected Eros, players person to physique a squad to combat backmost against Protogen and their experiments. Though the crippled is acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic the books and show, it focuses connected its ain communicative and characters.

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn March 2026 Screenshots

The beta volition let players to research a distant abstraction presumption belonging to their leader Pinkwater Security successful the aftermath of escaping from the catastrophic events connected Eros known from the books and TV series, Owlcat said. Along with exploring this caller environment, beta players volition beryllium capable to interact with its inhabitants and experimentation with dialog options and choices. Once the masterminds down the onslaught connected Eros drawback up to them, they volition besides acquisition the combat and upgrade mechanics archetypal hand. Owlcat said it aims to incorporated “valuable subordinate feedback” from the beta into the last game.

“Since the beta is simply a enactment successful progress, show whitethorn alteration and won’t bespeak the last prime of the game,” Owlcat stressed. “On consoles, playing connected Xbox Series X oregon PlayStation 5 is recommended.” That’s a wide motion to the underpowered quality of the Xbox Series S — hopefully The Expanse: Osiris Reborn volition extremity up moving good capable connected the console.

In lawsuit you missed it, here's everything announced astatine Xbox Partner Preview March 2026.

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