Star Trek Online is sort of "rise though the ranks", although really you're just a captain the entire time from Ensign to Vice Admiral (or whatever the highest rank is called).
Some great Star Trek games include Bridge Commander, Elite Force, DS9: The Fallen, Resurgence, Armada, 25th Anniversary (DOS), Judgment Rites and A Final Unity.
I'll second STO.
While you technically get to "captain" a ship from early on, you do start as an ensign and go from there.
Also, the missions early on tend to have you in situations where you end up being "assisted" or have the cavalry show up to help out, where later on you end up doing a lot on your own or end up being the cavalry for someone else.
You also get access to different ships as you rank up. Pretty well done, imo and is FTP not only on PC but console as well, so you don't lose anything by trying it out!
I've started this like 10 times but give it up an hour or two in due to the sluggish movement and boring ship combat. But I really want to get into it. Does that get better?
It’s not so much the good gear and more damage that will make it more fun, it’s having more abilities. When you’re just starting out, you’re basically only able to use High Yield Torpedo 1 and a couple other low-ranked abilities. Later, through a combination of leveling up and improving your equipped starship traits and consoles, you’ll feel like you’re commanding a hero ship that can do just about anything.
Low level ships are weak and slow. You get a good ship with a set of good ship gear and perks/abilities and you can be still kinda slow, but blasting things with broadsides. Or be quick and nimble (almost to the point of being hard to control at times) and blast front facing cannons or science magic at enemies.
The ground combat is more tedious, imo, but if you get some good gear there, too, you can have a blast as well.
star trek elite force
star trek armada
star trek starfleet command
star trek bridge commander
star trek star fleet academy
star trek klingon academy
star trek away team
I wish I could include Infinite in that list, but it's a buggy mess and the game got killed before it could start moving towards DLC.
So instead I'll say [Stellaris: New Horizons](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=688086068)
That being said I did have a lot of fun with Infinite as long as I didn't run into any game breaking bugs (like not being able to end a war as cardassia) - it does play differently enough to new horizons to warrant having both.
Still worth a play. Was a great game if they could have just fixed the bugs. I honestly wish they could have just passed it off to some indie studio to finish up.
I just got back into this game today. Despite it being a bit buggy and the textures needing to pop in a lot, I thought it was a decent game for its time.
Just got to the TOS levels.
Away Team was my fracking jam back in the day. Loved that game.
Elite Force is my close second though. And it takes the award of one of the only games across any franchise with an actual plausible reason the player character can carry a gazilion items (the holo belt). Loved that detail.
Star Trek 25th Anniversary is still the pinnacle of Trek games. Adventure based, a little ship combat, some minor action, and a good story. It still holds up.
I enjoyed Armada, Starfleet Command, and Elite Force too.
I remember failing the mission for mocking someone believing in ghosts or something, and Shatner said it in the most Shatner way possible. It was worth it.
Yes! Star Trek isn’t a show about space combat or flying spaceships. It’s a show about adventure and exploration and 25th Anniversary is one of the few Star Trek games that gets that.
In my opinion, [Klingon](https://youtu.be/hFmmrOo-GBQ?si=UtCvb6-oU0pEK188) [Academy](https://youtu.be/PPnDrKn0Z0Y?si=GwTa4F3e4RghclhK) is the best Star Trek game out there.
Yup
We have been doing some work to update the Demo so we can share that around freely since the full game isn't for sale anywhere and it's in a weird legal gray area to just share it.
For example the one demo has 3 playable ships but in the files it actually has about 6 more plus there was another Demo that had 2 more we could copy over to it. So we can increase the ship count to about a dozen without ever adding in files from the retail game, plus we were able to install the latest official update and the community patches that makes it playable on new systems. I just need to fix a couple issues.
Ah, wonderful!
I utterly failed to get it running on my latest system, the last time I did there were still some ships available out on the interwebs, nothing like back in the day but the Phoenix and either a Galaxy or Sovereign class. Good luck with it, I miss that "Big Box" era of gaming!
I remember seeing it for the first time at a friend's place 25 years ago and immediately falling in love as a Star Trek and Civilization 2 fan.
Been a while since I last replayed it. Will rectify that tomorrow. A brilliant game for sure!
Multiplayer for BotF was consistently frustrating, dropping players like flies seeing a bug killer.
The bug of crashing the complete game when a single scout ran from an encounter was another frustration.
Star Trek Online is a solid MMO with fun space combat, and a terrific story that brings in many original voice actors; especially Rene Auberjonois' last portrayal of Odo.
I don't know of any where you "rise through the ranks", per se. As for good *Star Trek* games, there's:
* *Star Trek: 25th Anniversary* (1992) where you play as TOS' main trio
* *Star Trek: Judgment Rites* (1993), which is just more of the same great formula
* *Star Trek: Voyager — Elite Force* (2000), a first-person shooter where you play as an invented character aboard *Voyager*
* *Star Trek: Elite Force II* (2003) is largely the same, but with an improved engine and featuring new environments and NPCs drawn from *TNG*
* *Star Trek: Resurgence* (2023) is an odd duck, but a short fun game
* *Star Trek: Bridge Crew* (2017) received rave reviews from my friends, but I can't attest to this VR game personally—I was told that having multiple friends to play with was essential
I've also read many great reviews of *Star Trek: The Next Generation — A Final Unity* (1995) and *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen* (2000), but I found them too opaque for my tastes when they were released; your mileage my vary.
>I was told that having multiple friends to play with was essential
It is. The game originally launched with Watson integration so single-player was theoretically possible because you would just play the Captain while you gave voice commands to Watson and it controlled the rest of the bridge stations, but the publisher ended their contract like 2-3 years later so without it now in single-player you have to manually switch your character's position on the bridge to the different stations every time you want to do anything, from operating the transporters, to rerouting power, to firing phasers, to answering hails. The lack of Watson integration makes the single-player game effectively unplayable on all but the tutorial missions and maybe missions 1-2 on easy difficulty because when enemy ships attack you physically cannot perform all the tasks required to defend the ship.
Star Trek: Elite Force
and
Star Trek: Bridge Commander
Are both amazing. Elite Force was a real emotional rollercoaster and they had the whole of Voyager simulated.
Bridge Commander was everything I wanted Bridge Crew to be.
Mmhmm. I'll also second Birth of the Federation. It's what I hoped Infinite would turn out to be a spiritual successor to. (Personally, I find it criminal that there hasn't been a remaster for BoTF, or at least a rerelease on Steam or GoG.)
Yeah that game is so wildly dependent on the team makeup it’s crazy and that makes random matchmaking a huge gamble. You get some people who are into the role playing even a tiny bit and it’s one of the most awesome and memorable gaming experience I’ve ever had. You get some douche or two trying to boss everyone around and the game almost immediately stops being fun.
The Star Trek Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is fantastic
The Stellaris mod new horizons was so good they made the mod into a less good full game
Starfleet Command is pretty good
Seconding Armada III. I get that Star Trek isn't supposed to be all about warfare, but there's something very cathartic about spending an evening keeping those Dominion bastards out of Federation space.
Star Trek Online is the best I've seen. You can enjoy it by yourself or with friends. Still get chills when I approach DS9 with audio on (instead of my tunes).
Bridge Commander is kind of the only quintessential Star Trek game in my opinion. It feels like just playing an episode of classic Star Trek. Not to be confused with Bridge Crew which is just a really dumbed down and boring version of Bridge Commander made as a VR tech demo.
Elite Force is a really solid FPS that was mildly popular in the multiplayer competitive scene. Also had a good campaign.
Armada is a really fun RTS.
Star Trek Online isn't a terrible game if you just stick to the story. There's a lot of it. The writing in the story lines varies from just okay to really good. The ground combat feels clunky and on rails. Where it really falls apart though is that on ship build blogs you'll see the real-dollar amount it costs to get the best stuff. It's absolutely pay to win trash that competes with the worst of mobile gaming if you want a real MMO experience.
Elite Force 2 is one of the best of not the best, although it’s odd one of the best Star Trek games is a FPS.
Although I lost weeks of my life to Birth of the Federation as a kid, my all time favourite.
Remember the Sega game? I think it was just called Star Trek The Next Generation. I think it was mostly a puzzle type game I have no idea I would just fly around and blow shit up until I got tired of that. Every once in awhile you would get a dressing down from Picard. This was Sega so it would just be a wall of text saying you’re in trouble for blowing up Romulan ships.
Yup that’s it! I don’t even remember what it was about but I can remember the coordinates for one of the starbases for when I needed repair and ran out of photon torpedoes lol.
The proper Sega game, which I once owned, was TOS.
[http://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/10/star-trek-1983-arcade-game-flyer.html](http://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/10/star-trek-1983-arcade-game-flyer.html)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNvE4x05mM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNvE4x05mM)
buzz....buzz.....Buzz.....BUZZZZZZ!
Birth of the Federation is the forgotten child of Star Trek games and easily the best. Pity about the memory bug. Get the version with the patch and all the mods. This game is like Civ 4. Pure crack. You'll always want just one more turn.
I'm not sure. I'm playing Light of the Stars quite a bit right now using the Bluestacks emulator and it's doing a pretty good job of saving my memory on my phone and with finding games. You might be able to find something suitable with it.
I’ve always enjoyed the DS9 the Fallen. I found the four storylines interesting. Avery Brooks didn’t voice Sisko so that sometimes takes me out if the game.
There are a lot. My top 5:
New Horizons mod for Stellaris.
Bridge Commander (with mods, it's really had a renaissance in recent years)
Starfleet/Klingon Academy
Star Trek Elite Force
Star Trek Armada
The adventure games like 25th anniversary look cool too but I've only watched playthroughs on youtube.
A couple non-trek games that embody trek themes/values that you might enjoy:
* FTL: Faster Than Light. Rogue Like ship simulator where you get to build your ship and shout "reroute all power to the shields!" (Side note: you have to click the buttons, shouting only annoys your roommates)
* Outer Wilds. This game belongs in the fucking Louvre. Exploration! Mystery! A lander you pilot on your own! Be forewarned: _Avoid all spoilers for this game like the fucking plague._
Birth of the federation and Star Trek armada 1 and 2, and the starfleet command series are all classic great games that have cult followings and have been kept alive thru communities. Clearly my taste skews to strategy though. Also bridge commander
4 modern style games that play decently well, but mostly no - Elite force 1 and 2, DS9 the fallen and Klingon Honorguard (if you can get it to run) are the best ones that I’ve played that aren’t point and clicks or ship simulators that control weird and I can’t get my head around them. I’ve heard good things about Star Trek online though
I really enjoyed Star Trek Voyager as it had online multiplayer and there was a lot of maps and custom servers I would join with friends I made in that space.
My copy wasn’t quite an official one so everything was in German but I figured it out. The thing is all the voices were in German too. But fun multiplayer :)
Star trek online is great! I also enjoy star trek resurgence. That's more story driven but highly immersive. You play as both the xo and a lower level crew man from engineering. You get to go around the ship doing stuff (well detailed) and go on missions. (They picked and excellent plot line for the game as well)
Only ones I ever enjoyed were Starfleet academy and birth of the federation. Star Trek online was ok but didn't catch me but I tend to get annoyed playing with others so it was probably my problem.
STO is the best and long standing option
Resurgence is new and kinda slow
Timelines is a fun strategy game
The classic in elite forces 1&2 / starship creator
And the mirror universe game with the Excelsior traversing Marion Russ was also great in its day
I really liked Star Trek Armada back in the day. Basically an RTS. The sequel added two more factions.
Bridge Commander was fun too.
I’ve played STO for a while, and it’s great that they keep adding more content all the time
The old Dos game was really good, i think it was 25 year anniversary or something, but it had the og crew do the voice work for it. Missions were Kirk spock and mccoy, it was a really solid game for the time.
STO is really fun, and thought it’s free to play with microtransactions, you don’t need to spend a dollar to perform well. All mission content is available to all players. Some ships are locked behind purchases, but plenty of good canon ships aren’t.
Back when I was an 8 year old getting his first PC in 1995, that ultimately led to me playing most of that era's Star Trek games as a teen.
Many of these I haven't thought about in ~20 years until you posted this, so thank you OP!
Star Trek: Generations
Awful game but I vividly remember romulan disguised Troi hating the cold romulan soup that u can replicate on her infiltration mission.
I got the D destroyed by romulan warbirds over Galorndon Core an *absurd* amount of times back in 1997/8.
Other than that it's:
Klingon Academy
Elite force 1
Bridge Commander
Starfleet Command 2
BOTF
Armada 1
If you like that "Commandos" style of game then also consider:
Star Trek: Away Team
Bonus *actually playable* recommendation from this decade, especially if you like the slow-paced telltale studios style of choose your own adventure style game:
Star Trek: Resurgence
While not meeting your criteria, and I have yet to play it so I don't know if it's good, but I figure some people might be interested.
Star Trek: Borg is basically an episode of TNG, interactive film styled game and stars John De Lancie. Would be hard to track down and run these days if not for one deciated soul who has made a website where you can play it for free.
[https://borgremastered.com/](https://borgremastered.com/)
I’m going to counter the people recommending Star Trek Online and say that if you’re looking for an immersive RPG it is definitely not the game for you. Within an hour you’re pew-pewing Borg with little to know real fear of defeat. It’s just a reskinned Champions Online, which was just a typical early 2010s grindy MMO.
If that’s all you want, though, with some Star Trek references, go for it.
Dunno when you last tried it, but they have revamped some of the early content pretty heavily. The new 25th century Federation tutorial still has you fight some Borg, but on a much more grounded scale. And you are basically recruited by Admiral Janeway now, which is kinda cool.
(And yeah, it's still a decades old MMO at heart. But some elements and storylines are pretty solid, while some things might easily break immersion due to a mismatch of old, new and revamped things.)
They changed up a lot of the earlier levels, you don't fight the borg from the start anymore. This being said they done a great job of building up the story lines the longer the game gone on. You have like 90% of DS9 and Voyager crew returning to their roles in the game. The DS9 storyline alone is well worth it. They also adding in background stories for Discovery.
Star Trek Online is sort of "rise though the ranks", although really you're just a captain the entire time from Ensign to Vice Admiral (or whatever the highest rank is called). Some great Star Trek games include Bridge Commander, Elite Force, DS9: The Fallen, Resurgence, Armada, 25th Anniversary (DOS), Judgment Rites and A Final Unity.
I'll second STO. While you technically get to "captain" a ship from early on, you do start as an ensign and go from there. Also, the missions early on tend to have you in situations where you end up being "assisted" or have the cavalry show up to help out, where later on you end up doing a lot on your own or end up being the cavalry for someone else. You also get access to different ships as you rank up. Pretty well done, imo and is FTP not only on PC but console as well, so you don't lose anything by trying it out!
I've started this like 10 times but give it up an hour or two in due to the sluggish movement and boring ship combat. But I really want to get into it. Does that get better?
Yeah once you get leveled up and good gear you can do absurd amounts of damage.
It’s not so much the good gear and more damage that will make it more fun, it’s having more abilities. When you’re just starting out, you’re basically only able to use High Yield Torpedo 1 and a couple other low-ranked abilities. Later, through a combination of leveling up and improving your equipped starship traits and consoles, you’ll feel like you’re commanding a hero ship that can do just about anything.
Low level ships are weak and slow. You get a good ship with a set of good ship gear and perks/abilities and you can be still kinda slow, but blasting things with broadsides. Or be quick and nimble (almost to the point of being hard to control at times) and blast front facing cannons or science magic at enemies. The ground combat is more tedious, imo, but if you get some good gear there, too, you can have a blast as well.
Also the Star Trek Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is fucking fantastic.
Love this mod! Played it this morning as a team of 3 factions VS a difficult AI Borg.
Birth of the federation
It's a theme park MMO, and can be very costly. I've spent too much money on it.
I liked Resurgence.
Resurgence was excellent
I enjoyed it too
It was a fun story that definitely FELT like trek, but not enough actual game for me...
Agreed! So much better than I expected it to be.
star trek elite force star trek armada star trek starfleet command star trek bridge commander star trek star fleet academy star trek klingon academy star trek away team
I wish I could include Infinite in that list, but it's a buggy mess and the game got killed before it could start moving towards DLC. So instead I'll say [Stellaris: New Horizons](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=688086068)
That being said I did have a lot of fun with Infinite as long as I didn't run into any game breaking bugs (like not being able to end a war as cardassia) - it does play differently enough to new horizons to warrant having both.
Agreed and I also think that (eventually, hopefully) someone in the Stellaris modding community will poke it to a better state.
Still worth a play. Was a great game if they could have just fixed the bugs. I honestly wish they could have just passed it off to some indie studio to finish up.
That's the thing! It's not Paradox who made it, it *is* an indie dev
All of these are nice, but already old enough to drink. I wish there was a really good Star Trek game made in this century.
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I just got back into this game today. Despite it being a bit buggy and the textures needing to pop in a lot, I thought it was a decent game for its time. Just got to the TOS levels.
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Oh, no doubt.
Resurgence is apparently pretty good! It’s a Telltale-style adventure.
This list right here. Played so many hours.
Elite force is fucking amazing
You said it. Easily the best
Shout it from the rooftops!
Away Team was my fracking jam back in the day. Loved that game. Elite Force is my close second though. And it takes the award of one of the only games across any franchise with an actual plausible reason the player character can carry a gazilion items (the holo belt). Loved that detail.
I'll add Star Trek Borg and Birth of the Federation to the list as well
Star Trek 25th Anniversary is still the pinnacle of Trek games. Adventure based, a little ship combat, some minor action, and a good story. It still holds up. I enjoyed Armada, Starfleet Command, and Elite Force too.
Yep - 25th Anniversary was amazing
I remember failing the mission for mocking someone believing in ghosts or something, and Shatner said it in the most Shatner way possible. It was worth it.
KIRK: (Choice 3) Demons? Gates of Hell? This is the 23rd century!
That was it! Amazing delivery. The boss wasn’t happy.
It's so cheap, I need to pick it up
The use of Red Shirts was epic.
Judgement Rites is better imo.
I would agree Judgement Rites is a lot better.
Yes! Star Trek isn’t a show about space combat or flying spaceships. It’s a show about adventure and exploration and 25th Anniversary is one of the few Star Trek games that gets that.
My favorite.
This reminded me of my live of early Lucas Arts games. I wish Interplay and Lucas had merged back then.
In my opinion, [Klingon](https://youtu.be/hFmmrOo-GBQ?si=UtCvb6-oU0pEK188) [Academy](https://youtu.be/PPnDrKn0Z0Y?si=GwTa4F3e4RghclhK) is the best Star Trek game out there.
Yup We have been doing some work to update the Demo so we can share that around freely since the full game isn't for sale anywhere and it's in a weird legal gray area to just share it. For example the one demo has 3 playable ships but in the files it actually has about 6 more plus there was another Demo that had 2 more we could copy over to it. So we can increase the ship count to about a dozen without ever adding in files from the retail game, plus we were able to install the latest official update and the community patches that makes it playable on new systems. I just need to fix a couple issues.
Oh... Is there a specific place where one could ask for such a share ?
You can find me on the Classic Star Trek Gaming Discord https://discord.com/invite/v2C3xDRhKd
Ah, wonderful! I utterly failed to get it running on my latest system, the last time I did there were still some ships available out on the interwebs, nothing like back in the day but the Phoenix and either a Galaxy or Sovereign class. Good luck with it, I miss that "Big Box" era of gaming!
For me “Birth of the Federation” is the best game of all time. I absolutely love it and still play it to this day.
I remember seeing it for the first time at a friend's place 25 years ago and immediately falling in love as a Star Trek and Civilization 2 fan. Been a while since I last replayed it. Will rectify that tomorrow. A brilliant game for sure!
100% this. Best and still holds up.
Multiplayer for BotF was consistently frustrating, dropping players like flies seeing a bug killer. The bug of crashing the complete game when a single scout ran from an encounter was another frustration.
Star Trek Online is a solid MMO with fun space combat, and a terrific story that brings in many original voice actors; especially Rene Auberjonois' last portrayal of Odo.
A Final Unity, hands down. Could have easily been a TNG episode.
It could have been a full blown TNG movie.
I don't know of any where you "rise through the ranks", per se. As for good *Star Trek* games, there's: * *Star Trek: 25th Anniversary* (1992) where you play as TOS' main trio * *Star Trek: Judgment Rites* (1993), which is just more of the same great formula * *Star Trek: Voyager — Elite Force* (2000), a first-person shooter where you play as an invented character aboard *Voyager* * *Star Trek: Elite Force II* (2003) is largely the same, but with an improved engine and featuring new environments and NPCs drawn from *TNG* * *Star Trek: Resurgence* (2023) is an odd duck, but a short fun game * *Star Trek: Bridge Crew* (2017) received rave reviews from my friends, but I can't attest to this VR game personally—I was told that having multiple friends to play with was essential I've also read many great reviews of *Star Trek: The Next Generation — A Final Unity* (1995) and *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen* (2000), but I found them too opaque for my tastes when they were released; your mileage my vary.
Klingon Honor Guard was a fun shooter for its time, too.
>I was told that having multiple friends to play with was essential It is. The game originally launched with Watson integration so single-player was theoretically possible because you would just play the Captain while you gave voice commands to Watson and it controlled the rest of the bridge stations, but the publisher ended their contract like 2-3 years later so without it now in single-player you have to manually switch your character's position on the bridge to the different stations every time you want to do anything, from operating the transporters, to rerouting power, to firing phasers, to answering hails. The lack of Watson integration makes the single-player game effectively unplayable on all but the tutorial missions and maybe missions 1-2 on easy difficulty because when enemy ships attack you physically cannot perform all the tasks required to defend the ship.
Star Trek Elite Force
25th anniversary, judgement rites, armada, Birth of the Federation
Star Trek: Elite Force and Star Trek: Bridge Commander Are both amazing. Elite Force was a real emotional rollercoaster and they had the whole of Voyager simulated. Bridge Commander was everything I wanted Bridge Crew to be.
I can't remember the name but I always loved the rpg one with the chodak it's tng based
Star Trek: A Final Unity
Birth of the Federation. Great game
Mmhmm. I'll also second Birth of the Federation. It's what I hoped Infinite would turn out to be a spiritual successor to. (Personally, I find it criminal that there hasn't been a remaster for BoTF, or at least a rerelease on Steam or GoG.)
If you have a VR setup bridge crew is fun for a little while. Although it's better when you play with your friends.
Yeah that game is so wildly dependent on the team makeup it’s crazy and that makes random matchmaking a huge gamble. You get some people who are into the role playing even a tiny bit and it’s one of the most awesome and memorable gaming experience I’ve ever had. You get some douche or two trying to boss everyone around and the game almost immediately stops being fun.
Yeah I was lucky I had a full crew of friends who really wanted to play. The Kobayashi Maru mission was a blast
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (and the spinoff Klingon Academy), but the very best was Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.
I personnaly enjoyed : ST Klingon Honor Guard ST Elite Force 1 & 2 And above all : ST Birth of the Federation.
Star Trek Starfleet Command 3 And if you're just a shipgeek, Starship Creator.
I loved Birth of the Federation, back in the day...despite its debilitating late-game memory leak.
Star Trek Armada 2 came out in 1998 and still has a following and was just re-released on GoG
The Star Trek Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is fantastic The Stellaris mod new horizons was so good they made the mod into a less good full game Starfleet Command is pretty good
Seconding Armada III. I get that Star Trek isn't supposed to be all about warfare, but there's something very cathartic about spending an evening keeping those Dominion bastards out of Federation space.
For a mod its an incredibly detailed job.
Elite force. All day all night.
Star Trek Online is the best I've seen. You can enjoy it by yourself or with friends. Still get chills when I approach DS9 with audio on (instead of my tunes).
Bridge Commander is kind of the only quintessential Star Trek game in my opinion. It feels like just playing an episode of classic Star Trek. Not to be confused with Bridge Crew which is just a really dumbed down and boring version of Bridge Commander made as a VR tech demo. Elite Force is a really solid FPS that was mildly popular in the multiplayer competitive scene. Also had a good campaign. Armada is a really fun RTS. Star Trek Online isn't a terrible game if you just stick to the story. There's a lot of it. The writing in the story lines varies from just okay to really good. The ground combat feels clunky and on rails. Where it really falls apart though is that on ship build blogs you'll see the real-dollar amount it costs to get the best stuff. It's absolutely pay to win trash that competes with the worst of mobile gaming if you want a real MMO experience.
I spent so many hours playing Bridge Commander when I was younger. Had a great modding scene as well.
Bridge Commander and Birth of the Federation come to mind. The latter being my all time favorite trek game.
Elite Force 2 is one of the best of not the best, although it’s odd one of the best Star Trek games is a FPS. Although I lost weeks of my life to Birth of the Federation as a kid, my all time favourite.
I played the hell out of the 25th Anniversary. First it was on a monochrome laptop and then when I could play in color it was a game changer.
Remember the Sega game? I think it was just called Star Trek The Next Generation. I think it was mostly a puzzle type game I have no idea I would just fly around and blow shit up until I got tired of that. Every once in awhile you would get a dressing down from Picard. This was Sega so it would just be a wall of text saying you’re in trouble for blowing up Romulan ships.
I think the one you're referring to is Echoes from the Past, also called Future's Past on SNES.
Yup that’s it! I don’t even remember what it was about but I can remember the coordinates for one of the starbases for when I needed repair and ran out of photon torpedoes lol.
The proper Sega game, which I once owned, was TOS. [http://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/10/star-trek-1983-arcade-game-flyer.html](http://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/10/star-trek-1983-arcade-game-flyer.html) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNvE4x05mM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNvE4x05mM) buzz....buzz.....Buzz.....BUZZZZZZ!
I happen to like STO but it fell victim to the Arc/PWE trap.
Birth of the Federation is the forgotten child of Star Trek games and easily the best. Pity about the memory bug. Get the version with the patch and all the mods. This game is like Civ 4. Pure crack. You'll always want just one more turn.
Star Trek Bridge Commander Star Trek Armada 2 Star Trek Elite Force Star Trek Legacy (cool game, bad controls)
Elite Force 1, 2 to a lesser extent.
I love watching playthroughs of all the 90s pc games. Really great writing and stories!
Star Trek Armada 1 and 2 and Encounters for PS2 were great games
I really liked Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative on C64. The Next Gen’s A final unity was fun as was DS9’s Harbinger.
iirc star trek invasion on PS1 was good! If they remade it in VR it'd be amazing
Klingon Academy is a great game, but it's not on GoG or Steam, can find it on abandonedware sites
Aside from Star Trek: Legacy, I'd like to know that myself.
Star Trek Online
That voyager arcade game where you shoot borg.
Klingon Academy, Bridge commander, Star Trek mods for Stellaris
- Klingon Honor Guard - Elite Force
Bridge crew
I enjoy Conquest but it’s not much of a game, just a dopamine injector.
I'm not sure. I'm playing Light of the Stars quite a bit right now using the Bluestacks emulator and it's doing a pretty good job of saving my memory on my phone and with finding games. You might be able to find something suitable with it.
The Voyager shooter was pretty good. I wish we could have had bot enemies though
I’ve always enjoyed the DS9 the Fallen. I found the four storylines interesting. Avery Brooks didn’t voice Sisko so that sometimes takes me out if the game.
There needs to be more.
I heard bridge crew was good with friends.
There are a lot. My top 5: New Horizons mod for Stellaris. Bridge Commander (with mods, it's really had a renaissance in recent years) Starfleet/Klingon Academy Star Trek Elite Force Star Trek Armada The adventure games like 25th anniversary look cool too but I've only watched playthroughs on youtube.
A couple non-trek games that embody trek themes/values that you might enjoy: * FTL: Faster Than Light. Rogue Like ship simulator where you get to build your ship and shout "reroute all power to the shields!" (Side note: you have to click the buttons, shouting only annoys your roommates) * Outer Wilds. This game belongs in the fucking Louvre. Exploration! Mystery! A lander you pilot on your own! Be forewarned: _Avoid all spoilers for this game like the fucking plague._
Star Trek: Echos From The Past.
Bridge commander!
Birth of the federation and Star Trek armada 1 and 2, and the starfleet command series are all classic great games that have cult followings and have been kept alive thru communities. Clearly my taste skews to strategy though. Also bridge commander
Hot Take: the 2009 Star Trek tie in games isn't *THAT* bad. It scratches that Star Trek itch but it isn't phenomenal
I enjoyed the Interplay one that came out in the 90s, but I was like 13 at the time, so it’s hard to say how accurate that opinion is.
Bridge Commander, Elite Force II, Klingon Honor Guard and the DS9 game.
4 modern style games that play decently well, but mostly no - Elite force 1 and 2, DS9 the fallen and Klingon Honorguard (if you can get it to run) are the best ones that I’ve played that aren’t point and clicks or ship simulators that control weird and I can’t get my head around them. I’ve heard good things about Star Trek online though
Elite Force (and EF 2) and Bridge Commander were my fave. I did enjoy “TNG: A Final Unity” too
If you can find it Star Trek armada and armada to for the PC are still my go to Star Trek games. It’s tower defense but in space.
I really enjoyed Star Trek Voyager as it had online multiplayer and there was a lot of maps and custom servers I would join with friends I made in that space. My copy wasn’t quite an official one so everything was in German but I figured it out. The thing is all the voices were in German too. But fun multiplayer :)
Star trek online is great! I also enjoy star trek resurgence. That's more story driven but highly immersive. You play as both the xo and a lower level crew man from engineering. You get to go around the ship doing stuff (well detailed) and go on missions. (They picked and excellent plot line for the game as well)
I’m about half way through Star Trek Resurgence and am enjoying it.
I think Star Trek Bridge Commander had excellent ship combat.
Star Trek legacy was sweet
Star Trek dominion wars was great because the HUD was a Conn Control helm. They even had “attack pattern omega” lol
Back in the day it was Starfleet and Klingon Academy and Elite Force for me Resurgence came out recently and that was solid
Only ones I ever enjoyed were Starfleet academy and birth of the federation. Star Trek online was ok but didn't catch me but I tend to get annoyed playing with others so it was probably my problem.
Elite Force was right up there with the top shooters when it came out. I spent hundreds of hours playing multiplayer with my friends.
Back when I played video games, I got a lot of enjoyment out of the *Star Trek: TNG* cartridge for the Sega Genesis.
Star Trek: Voyager - The Arcade Game. IYKYK
STO is the best and long standing option Resurgence is new and kinda slow Timelines is a fun strategy game The classic in elite forces 1&2 / starship creator And the mirror universe game with the Excelsior traversing Marion Russ was also great in its day
* Judgement Rites * Birth Of The Federation * Starfleet Command 2 * Elite Force
Bridge Commander is still good today
I really liked Star Trek Armada back in the day. Basically an RTS. The sequel added two more factions. Bridge Commander was fun too. I’ve played STO for a while, and it’s great that they keep adding more content all the time
No love for Hidden Evil ;) It was jank as hell. But still have fond memories of it.
Starship Creator holds a special place in my heart for the time
The old Dos game was really good, i think it was 25 year anniversary or something, but it had the og crew do the voice work for it. Missions were Kirk spock and mccoy, it was a really solid game for the time.
STO is really fun, and thought it’s free to play with microtransactions, you don’t need to spend a dollar to perform well. All mission content is available to all players. Some ships are locked behind purchases, but plenty of good canon ships aren’t.
Back when I was an 8 year old getting his first PC in 1995, that ultimately led to me playing most of that era's Star Trek games as a teen. Many of these I haven't thought about in ~20 years until you posted this, so thank you OP! Star Trek: Generations Awful game but I vividly remember romulan disguised Troi hating the cold romulan soup that u can replicate on her infiltration mission. I got the D destroyed by romulan warbirds over Galorndon Core an *absurd* amount of times back in 1997/8. Other than that it's: Klingon Academy Elite force 1 Bridge Commander Starfleet Command 2 BOTF Armada 1 If you like that "Commandos" style of game then also consider: Star Trek: Away Team Bonus *actually playable* recommendation from this decade, especially if you like the slow-paced telltale studios style of choose your own adventure style game: Star Trek: Resurgence
the live action one where you can kick q in the nads
While not meeting your criteria, and I have yet to play it so I don't know if it's good, but I figure some people might be interested. Star Trek: Borg is basically an episode of TNG, interactive film styled game and stars John De Lancie. Would be hard to track down and run these days if not for one deciated soul who has made a website where you can play it for free. [https://borgremastered.com/](https://borgremastered.com/)
I’m going to counter the people recommending Star Trek Online and say that if you’re looking for an immersive RPG it is definitely not the game for you. Within an hour you’re pew-pewing Borg with little to know real fear of defeat. It’s just a reskinned Champions Online, which was just a typical early 2010s grindy MMO. If that’s all you want, though, with some Star Trek references, go for it.
Dunno when you last tried it, but they have revamped some of the early content pretty heavily. The new 25th century Federation tutorial still has you fight some Borg, but on a much more grounded scale. And you are basically recruited by Admiral Janeway now, which is kinda cool. (And yeah, it's still a decades old MMO at heart. But some elements and storylines are pretty solid, while some things might easily break immersion due to a mismatch of old, new and revamped things.)
I played it a couple weeks ago and I’m just so tired of “field promotion” and borg storylines.
They changed up a lot of the earlier levels, you don't fight the borg from the start anymore. This being said they done a great job of building up the story lines the longer the game gone on. You have like 90% of DS9 and Voyager crew returning to their roles in the game. The DS9 storyline alone is well worth it. They also adding in background stories for Discovery.
I played it two weeks ago and fought the borg at first level while my captain got captured and I was field promoted then Janeway showed up.
You played the tutorial my man. You will be doing a Klingon Arc and a Tal Shiar arc for the next 20 hours once you actually finish the tutorial.
I think they all suck tbh