Mass Effect: Take Back Earth Announced

Published Nov 10, 2026, 4:12 PM EST Chris is a Gaming Editor at ScreenRant. He has been a professional writer since 2009, and has written for top TV, comics, movie, and video game outlets like Engadget, Polygon, Destructoid, and more. He brings with him an expertise in every game genre, no matter how niche or mainstream. You may know him as the former Managing/Reviews Editor of Destructoid, where he published hundreds of game reviews across every genre, including MMOs, sports games, and Metroidvanias. Find Chris on Twitter @_SRChris. There was a time when Mass Effect was one of the biggest franchises out there. Dating back to 2007, BioWare stunned fans already on board thanks to Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and won over new ones. While Dragon Age would eventually define their tenure, Mass Effect was one of their first big original franchises. Although it would have been nice to get a Jade Empire sequel, Mass Effect further developed the branching dialogue trees from their past work while giving it its own sci-fi flair. A colorful cast of characters would fill out the squad (a conceit that would carry over to Dragon Age), giving you an extra incentive to develop their relationship trees. Now, you can give Take Earth Back a try, thanks to a full confirmation on YouTube. Live now on Nexus Mods, you can download the Take Earth Back mod for Mass Effect 3, which shakes up the game's entire conclusion. Here's the full recap from the creator: "Take Earth Back is a community mod designed to address one of the weakest sections of Mass Effect 3 - Priority: Earth. Bioware's mission was adequate, but it didn't account for the war assets you collected across the trilogy. Take Earth Back primarily focuses on these with an overhaul of the Earth hub to feature more than 28 war assets, as well as cut content restorations, new interactive conversations, new cutscenes and more. Additionally, the Hades gun sequence and beam run have had minor overhauls, and the mod is built from the ground up to work for vanilla players, as well as those who play Expanded Galaxy Mod and Spectre Expansion Mod." In other words, if you found the events leading up to the final conclusion of Mass Effect 3 unsatisfactory, you can load up Take Earth Back and spruce things up a bit. It works with several high-profile PC mods for Mass Effect 3, but it's also fine to use with the vanilla version of the game. Cut dialogue about James' dad has been restored, as well as Joker's Paragon handshake interaction. It also swaps around some dialogue choices to make them cinematic, or interactive, depending on the situation. New cutscenes were introduced to add more stakes to the battle, including showing more war assets in the fray. Much of this data for the added content was compiled from leaked alpha/beta scripts for the game. That said, it doesn't go too far and change everything entirely, it more adds on to what's already there. Although BioWare has ceased operations, the community will keep the franchise alive through a variety of works, including modding. We should also see a ton of Mass Effect cosplay at upcoming conventions. In other words, fans won't forget it anytime soon. After all, the last game in the series was released in 2017, and people have been talking about the promise of Mass Effect 4 ever since. In any case, it would be a shame to see Mass Effect gone forever. While EA still owns the IP, it's possible we could see another studio created with some interested ex-BioWare staff.