Mass Effect 2007

About

On Steam, 94% of 14,892 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 19 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 71 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck. It was nominated for 1 award.

Mass Effect is an action role-playing game set in the year 2183. The player takes the role of Commander Shepard, a customizable character who serves as Executive Officer aboard the SSV Normandy. After a routine mission goes wrong, Shepard assembles a squad and pursues a threat that escalates into a galaxy-wide conflict. The game features real-time squad-based combat where players choose companions and tactics suited to different enemy types, from biotic-wielding opponents to heavily armored machines. The game spans a large science fiction universe, with explorable locations ranging from the Citadel space station to alien homeworlds and remote outposts. Player decisions affect mission outcomes, crew relationships, and the overarching narrative across the trilogy.

Story

In the year 2183, Commander Shepard is sent to the human colony of Eden Prime to recover a Prothean beacon. The mission is disrupted by an attack from the synthetic Geth, led by Saren Arterius, a rogue Spectre agent. After making contact with the beacon and receiving a cryptic vision of destruction, Shepard is appointed the first human Spectre and tasked with hunting Saren across the galaxy. The investigation leads Shepard and a growing crew aboard the SSV Normandy through multiple worlds, uncovering a conspiracy tied to the Reapers, a highly advanced machine race believed to eradicate all organic civilizations on a 50,000-year cycle. Shepard must stop Saren before he can trigger their return.

What is happening now

Mass Effect is a narrative-driven RPG and shooter that defined a generation of character-focused sci-fi storytelling when it launched in 2007. The original trilogy established the franchise's reputation for branching dialogue, squad-based combat, and consequential player choices across multiple games. Recent coverage has focused on Exodus, a spiritual successor from Wizards of the Coast that draws deliberate inspiration from Mass Effect's formula. Early hands-on impressions suggest the game captures much of what made BioWare's series compelling - a third-person perspective, narrative depth, and RPG mechanics - though some reviewers note that the dialogue execution doesn't quite match the modernization of other systems. The project appears positioned as a spiritual continuation of that lineage rather than a direct sequel.