A brand new Star Trek game was just announced tonight, for all of you who have been clamoring for digital action in the final frontier!
Star Trek: Resurgence is scheduled to arrive next spring, a “third-person, choice-driven adventure game” from developer Dramatic Labs — a post-Voyager series set in the year 2380, right after the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies.
Planned to be available on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 consoles — as well as for PC through the Epic Games Store, Star Trek: Resurgence centers around the crew of the USS Resolute, a Centaur-class Federation starship of the late 24th century.
From the official press release:
Dramatic Labs, a new fully remote independent game developer comprised of veterans from Telltale Games, in collaboration with ViacomCBS Consumer Products, today revealed Star Trek: Resurgence, a new third-person choice-driven adventure game set within the iconic sci-fi universe.
Star Trek: Resurgence is an interactive narrative video game that tells an original story set in the era shortly after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stationed aboard the U.S.S. RESOLUTE, players will assume the role of two principal characters, First Officer Jara Rydek and Engineering Crewperson Carter Diaz, as they unravel a sinister mystery involving two alien civilizations on the brink of war.
Throughout the game, players will immerse themselves in the Star Trek Universe, interacting with new and returning characters through a variety of dialogue and action gameplay to determine the course of the story.
The seasoned team at Dramatic Labs is composed of industry veterans, including twenty former Telltale developers that have worked on games such as The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones: The Telltale Series, and Batman: The Telltale Series.
Star Trek: Resurgence is scheduled for worldwide release in Spring 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4 gaming consoles, and exclusively on the Epic Games Store for PCs.
In addition to today’s announcement and trailer, which features a look at gameplay and what seems to be an appearance of Ambassador Spock (voiced by a Leonard Nimoy sound-alike), the official Star Trek: Resurgence website also adds some additional detail to our opening knowledge about this upcoming game.
From that site’s FAQ page:
Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative adventure game featuring dialog choices, relationship building, and exploration. Alongside dialog-driven role playing and rich branching storylines, you will also engage with the Star Trek universe in a variety of other gameplay styles, including shuttle piloting, phaser fights, tricorder scanning, stealth, and micro-gameplay mechanics.
Star Trek: Resurgence is set in the year 2380, in the era immediately following the Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films; [the game] features an all new crew on an all new starship, but also includes characters that are fan favorites. Stay tuned for more info!
Direct control of player movement in Star Trek: Resurgence uses a 3rd person “over the shoulder” camera. Dialog-driven role-playing is presented in a playable cinematic format [and the game] follows two principal characters through a single epic story, with gameplay switching between the characters, similar to Telltale’s Game of Thrones or Tales from the Borderlands.
Star Trek: Resurgence is proudly being built using Epic’s Unreal engine and Beanie™, our interactive screenwriting system and narrative engine; [the game] is a single player experience without microtransactions, DLC or other additional monetization models.
More information on this game is likely to come soon, if the Spring 2022 release target is to be believed — so keep your tricorders locked here at TrekCore for more coverage as we get closer to the Star Trek: Resurgence release!