I won't lie to you, I've never seen a single episode of The Expanse TV show. Then again, I'd never seen a single episode of The Walking Dead when I sobbed my way through Telltale's first videogame adaptation of the series. I'd never read a single Fables comic when The Wolf Among Us became one of my favourite games of all time. I'd only ever played the first Borderlands when I couldn't get enough of Tales from the Borderlands, which relies heavily on events from the second game.
Telltale has always had a way of making me fall in love with both its games and its source material regardless of my initial familiarity—and I have close to zero knowledge of The Expanse bar it being a sci-fi show based on a series of novels. But this isn't the same Telltale who had a chokehold on me in the mid-2010s. That developer was abruptly shuttered in 2018, leaving a big narrative adventure-shaped hole in my heart and devastating news of crunch and toxic management within the company.
