The companions in Owlcat's new Mass Effect-inspired RPG stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up

Over the past eight years, Owlcat Games has built a reputation for making some of the best modern isometric RPGs (after a bit of patching, at least!), including Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And though it's clearly not giving up on that genre any time soon (there's a follow-up to Rogue Trader on the way), it is taking its first step outside it with one of its upcoming releases.

Like BioWare before it, Owlcat is making the leap from isometric RPGs to a third-person shooter RPG with The Expanse...