Curious about this game but not sure how much Expanse background knowledge I would need to play it. The TV series never aired in my region I think. All I know of it are some random awesome YT clips. I'm not even sure if the characters in the trailer are the heroes or whose side they're on. This doesn't seem like the type of space opera you can just jump into midway. Also, a little leery of playing Owlcat games as they rather sternly insist you agree to their terms and conditions before letting you play the game. It seems to be some kind of in-built spyware you can't opt out of. I'm not sure what it's picking up or how to block it. It always makes me uneasy playing their games, even though they seem pretty polished and interesting. Is this typical of Russian game studio productions? Also not a fan of how they tend to add an evil companion you can recruit with no way to redeem them and doing their quests means either offing them yourself or getting dragged down into their rabbit hole, which tends to screw up good playthroughs. I don't even know if the Expanse has good playthroughs. It feels like another dark dystopian future where you're railroaded into doing terrible things cos there wasn't any other choice. It looks really good though. I do miss the original Mass Effect although I don't expect this game to beat it.

Owlcat is on fire, just like my wallet trying to keep rhythm of their releases, DLCs, games!!!! Congratulations to the team!

Cool!

Hopefully not a delayed release on GOG!

The game looks interesting, but hope doesn't need previously knowledge of the TV series.

Shouldn't be necessary as it's confirmed to take place during the events of seasons 1 to 2,5 of the series.
Could give yourself a little headstart lore-wise by watching at least the first 3 seasons of the series or read the first two of the novels though.

yes please

I just checked. It's only two. Not bad though.

Sooooo... soon is now? :D

I think, the "soon" is for beta (and alpha) on GOG, not released game.

I wouldn't mind an "in development" release :)

You can always preorder (on theirs website).

I get the sense that most devs prefer not to do "in-dev" here and instead wait for the 1.0 release, so they only have to focus on one store (Steam) for the time being.

Owlcat's one of the few exceptions though - Rogue Trader as well as Pathfinder had beta releases on GOG too.