New Mass Effect teaser poster for N7 Day hints at return of the geth

BioWare’s annual N7 Day, a celebration of all things Mass Effect, landed on Sunday, and while the event itself was rather quiet, the developer offered a new teaseInformation about its next sci-fi game. A teaser poster shows us the crew and ship of the new sci-fi game. Mass Effect, and a not-so-subtle hint that the geth will return in BioWare’s still-undated sequel

Beyond the obvious tagline (“Mass Effect will continue” — yeah, we know!), the poster offers a bird’s eye view of a four-person crew, one of which definitely appears krogan-shaped. There’s also what appears to be a destroyed geth on the ground, and scarred terrain that’s undeniably the silhouette of a geth head. That would certainly hint at the return of the AI race, which were absent from the most recent game in the franchise, 2017’s Mass Effect Andromeda.

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The ship itself also appears to be new — and not the so-called Mudskipper shown in a previous teaser — and the impact crater that made the geth shape appears have been a harsh landing for … something that the geth themselves may have been investigating.

BioWare did not provide any explanations as to what this teaser meant. In an N7 Day blog post, the developer said, “We are, of course, hard at work on the next adventure in the Mass Effectuniverse. Until then, please accept our most humble thanks to you for accompanying us on this journey.”

Last year, it was confirmed that the Mass Effect 2 is currently in development. Then-BioWare general manager Casey Hudson said, “a veteran team has been hard at work envisioning the next chapter of the Mass Effect universe,” and that BioWare was “in early stages on the project.” Like the next Dragon Age game, it’s almost assuredly years away from release.