Exodus got its most detailed showing yet today, with a roughly 20-minute Extended Gameplay Reveal during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. The sci-fi action RPG comes from Archetype Entertainment, a studio largely made up of former BioWare developers, and it stars Jun Aslan, a scrappy salvager turned Traveler dragged into a galaxy-wide fight. Jun leads a crew of companions across the Centauri Cluster, raiding ancient ruins for anything that might save the homeworld of Lidon from the Rot, a Celestial virus pushing humanity toward extinction. It is due out in early 2027 on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, with wishlisting open now.
A big focus of the reveal was Jun’s morality, split between two alignments: Paladin, the path of virtue where you put others first even at a cost, and Immortal, the path of ambition where you grab power when it serves you. Not every call is that clean, though, and the game throws morally gray decisions into everything from casual companion chats to major story turns. Those choices feed into progression too, shaping which abilities Jun can upgrade and how his powers develop. They also ripple through the crew, with one shown moment putting Jun in a control room deciding whether to vent an airlock full of hostiles on a companion’s word, knowing innocent people might be caught in it.
Players can build Jun as a male or female Traveler, and the reveal offered a brief first glimpse of female Jun ahead of a fuller character reveal later. The crew mixes humans and Awakened animals, from xeno-archaeologist Phaedra Nath, whose story is tangled up with the Celestials, to the mysterious space cowboy C.C. Orlev, voiced by Matthew McConaughey. The Awakened are bioengineered, highly intelligent animals who think, speak, and live alongside humans, including an octopus mercenary named Salt who fights at Jun’s side. They’re woven into society well beyond the party, too, showing up as merchants, soldiers, and medics, with one stretch of the reveal featuring an Awakened elephant running a vendor stall.
Getting deep into the Cluster means surviving hostile worlds like the volcanic Tsang, using Traveler tech such as the multi-mode Recycler and an upgradeable Gauntlet that gains new abilities as Jun salvages alien gear. The more distinctive system is Time Dilation, which the studio says is woven into the universe itself. Traveling at near-lightspeed across huge distances means days for Jun add up to weeks or months back home, a gap that plays out around Persepolis, his main hub on Lidon. The ruins he raids and the missions he takes cost time he can’t reclaim, so the world and the people he left behind won’t always be the same when he returns.
