A content material creator who claims to have served on a BioWare group council has shared alleged particulars concerning the cancelled subsequent Mass Impact sport, titled Mass Impact Universe.
In a prolonged Twitter/X publish (thanks, PC Gamer), YouTuber Dantics claimed the cancelled sport was set greater than 600 years after the Reaper Warfare.
He stated he’d had entry through his position on the “Mass Impact Council” and had seen firsthand what BioWare was growing, and offered suggestions throughout improvement.
Based on Dantics, the sport would have centred on a “galactic Chilly Warfare” between three main factions, fairly than one other Reaper-style invasion. Humanity, the Krogan, the Batarians, and others would have allied, with the Council races forming their very own alliance and the Geth rising as a 3rd superpower.
He additionally talked about Geth-built megastructures, connections between the Milky Approach and Andromeda, and a “shadowy adversary”.
Gamers would have managed a customisable N7 agent, which Dantics described as “a cross between John Wick and James Bond” fairly than “a strolling gun rack”.
I can lastly speak about Mass Impact Universe.
Since Bioware closed I can now reveal that I used to be a part of the Mass Impact Council, noticed what BioWare was constructing, and offered suggestions throughout improvement.
• Set 600+ years after the Reaper Warfare
• You play as a customizable N7… pic.twitter.com/69b1HP1wm9— Dantics (@DanticsOfficial) October 23, 2026
They’d even have had experimental expertise implanted, giving them the power to hack and manipulate the setting, see via partitions, establish programs, and remotely set off hazards.
Missions would have been handcrafted, as within the authentic trilogy, however with “Hitman-style freedom” in how they have been accomplished. Dantics additionally listed brutal close-range executions, squadmates who might conflict with one another, romances that weren’t “sanitised”, and Shepard’s legacy being preserved no matter which ending gamers selected.
Squad member Liara would even have returned, solely now as an “extremely highly effective Asari Matriarch”.
“From what I noticed, BioWare was making Mass Impact for us, the followers, not for individuals who don’t exist,” Dantics wrote. “It seemed unimaginable. And now we could by no means get to play it.”
None of this has been confirmed. Neither BioWare nor EA has commented, and Dantics’s position on the council hasn’t been independently verified.
It follows the looks of an inner trailer for Mass Impact Universe, which has since been confirmed as actual, after BioWare’s closure and the cancellation of the sport.
The EA job cuts, which befell only some months after Saudi Arabia’s $55bn leveraged buyout of the corporate, additionally hit builders at Respawn, Maxis, Full Circle, EA Motive, and different EA-owned studios. Whereas such cuts have been anticipated by specialists given EA’s new debt obligations, the information of BioWare’s closure nonetheless drew out many messages of sympathy and anger from throughout the trade.
We stated a tragic farewell to BioWare earlier this week.