How The Expanse: A Telltale Series evolves the Telltale formula
The upcoming adventure game The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a revival in more ways than one. Co-developed by Deck Nine Games – the creators of Life is Strange: True Colors and Before the Storm – and the new Telltale Games, it's a new adventure game adaptation of a cult TV series that had gone through its own resurrection, which is undoubtedly an appropriate pick for a debut game. But it's also the project that looks to re-establish a fan-favorite style of adventure game that revived a once-forgotten genre during the 2010s.
Announced at The Game Awards in 2021, The Expanse: A Telltale Series marks the debut of the sprawling universe of the sci-fi thriller TV series in the gaming medium. Focusing on the early years of fan-favorite Camina Drummer, the Telltale series sees her exploits as a scavenger in the belt, where she'll encounter vicious space raiders and backstabbing crewmates in remote areas of outer space.
It's a compelling setting for a choice-driven adventure series, and it's a promising start for the new era of Telltale Games. Just ahead of the upcoming release of episode 1 on July 27, I got to play the first episode of The Expanse, seeing those familiar and unexpected Telltale-style moments, and spoke with game director Stephan Frost and actress Cara Gee about bringing The Expanse universe to a video game.
For the uninitiated, The Expanse is a sci-fi TV series based on the novels by James S.A. Corey. The story focuses on humanity in the middle-term future as they colonize and explore the solar system. With different colonies and planets populated by humans, creating their own cultures and identities away from Earth, a brewing conflict amongst them puts the galaxy's fate at risk, which also uncovers evidence of a
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