Mass Effect 5 Pitched as ‘John Wick and James Bond’ in Space, Report Says

BioWare had reportedly planned Mass Effect: Universe, a fifth mainline game, before EA closed the studio and cancelled the project. New claims about its story and gameplay suggest it would have continued the series in a very different direction, with a political standoff replacing the Reaper-scale war.

The game was reportedly set 600 years after the original trilogy, linking its timeline to the journey to Andromeda. Players would control a customisable N7 agent in a galaxy divided among three factions, using experimental technology to hack environments and approach handcrafted missions with Hitman-style freedom. The claims come from a former community feedback participant and were backed by an anonymous source cited by Kotaku; they have not been fully corroborated.