It’s been more than a year since the last update on Dramatic Labs’ new Star Trek: Resurgence video game, but the developer is back on the scene this month with great news — the once-delayed adventure is now locked in for a May 23, 2023 release date!
Arriving next month, the “interactive narrative game” will be available to play on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One gaming consoles, and through the Epic Games Store for PCs.
As the Dramatic Labs puts it:
Star Trek: Resurgence is a bold interactive narrative game set shortly after Star Trek: The Next Generation’s timeline. A worker uprising threatens the tenuous peace between two alien civilizations, and Starfleet is forced to intervene.
Players experience the conflict and larger mystery from two key perspectives. The U.S.S. RESOLUTE’s First Officer Jara Rydek is part of the diplomatic envoy led by Ambassador Spock that’s tasked with finding a resolution – and uncovering the ultimate source of this tense situation. Engineering Crewperson Carter Diaz highlights how the mission plays out from the lower decks, caught up in the events in his own unique way.
Throughout the gripping story, players can interact with the Star Trek universe like never before, with moments of authentic action and critical decisions that shape the broader narrative in subtle and unexpected ways.
Here’s a big collection of screenshots from the upcoming game, released this week:
The company also shared some insight into the game’s delay, through a blog post on the official Star Trek: Resurgence page.
The short answer is because we are a relatively small development team, making a pretty big game, and that has been keeping us very busy!
As you might know, we had initially hoped to have the game out in “Spring 2022,” but it is now “Spring 2023.” What happened? Honestly, our initial target was just too aggressive. We were very excited to get Star Trek: Resurgence to everyone as fast as we could, but this is our first game as Dramatic Labs, and our first game built with the Unreal Engine. And along the way it became clear the game wouldn’t be what we wanted if we kept that release window.
We considered trying to hit the holiday season for 2022, but we decided that, if we were going to change the date, we should do it to make the best game we could. Not to meet some arbitrary marketing timeline. That’s why we reset for a Spring 2023 release and now we’re excited to finally announce a date: May 23, 2023!
Lastly, you might want to know why we’ve been so quiet along the way. We’ve primarily been putting our efforts into getting across the finish line. Trailers, dev diaries, and social media take time away from actually working on the game. We also didn’t want to announce a new release date without having a good idea of when we would deliver the game to you. We did preview the game for press at various points along the way and got some great media coverage and we had a blast playing through a scene with the audience at our Comic Con panel in San Diego.
That said, we realize we could have done a better job of keeping you all in the loop. But now that Star Trek: Resurgence is this close to being in your hands, you’ll be hearing much more from us. We can’t wait for you to join the crew of the U.S.S. Resolute and play the game!
And if you missed it last year, here is some gameplay footage from the game, which by May will be finished for all gamers to play.
Keep checking back for more news about Star Trek: Resurgence as its May 23 release date approaches — and let us know in the comments below if you plan to play this new Star Trek game yourself!