One of the best things about Telltale's take on The Expanse is that you don't really need to know what's going on to have fun with it. Being a prequel, it certainly would help to be at least somewhat familiar with the sci-fi TV show and its character of Camina Drummer, the deadpan chief of a large intergalactic space base known as Tycho Station, but the beauty of the game is its focus on player choice.
The Expanse benefits from Telltale's signature adventure-exploration gameplay, as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy's best choices, hinged on quick-time events and missable items that could have a lasting impact on later events. Its branching narratives offer a bespoke opportunity to build out Camina's backstory as you want to shape it, honing in on relationships between herself and fellow Artemis crew members as they stand at the precipice of an interplanetary mystery. Between cinematic cutscenes, drip-fed lore, space pirates, and the unique zero-gravity dynamics of operating a magsuit, it's a suitably disorienting experience that's big on immersion – no matter your familiarity with its source.
