What's a good Star Trek Game?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I have ST 25th Anniversary and that was good and both versions of Elite Force.

What others are good? There's a pile of them on GOG now going cheap would love all your thoughts on pros and cons and what games seem fun and what to avoid.

 

[Timby]

Judgment Rites, the sequel to 25th Anniversary, is good. A Final Unity is also good. One word of warning, though, is that some late-game puzzles in both of those are absolute bullshit.

Armada was a good RTS, I didn't much care for Armada II. (Though the Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is excellent.)

Birth of the Federation was almost a good 4X game, but crippled by janky code and a game-breaking memory leak that renders the game almost unplayable after Turn 200.

Bridge Commander was decent, not great. Helped a lot by mods.

Starfleet Academy felt like Wing Commander with a Star Trek skin, especially with ship movement. Klingon Academy was fun, but janky and held together with toothpicks, chewing gum and the wails of the wretched and the damned. You're better off watching the cinematics on YouTube.

The three Starfleet Command games were good, though the first two were the best.

Stay far, far away from Star Trek: Legacy, Hidden Evil, New Worlds and D-A-C. And if you see a copy of the Star Trek game from 2013 (the one that's based in the Kelvin timeline), set it on fire, because it's unplayable.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Judgment Rites, the sequel to 25th Anniversary, is good. A Final Unity is also good. One word of warning, though, is that some late-game puzzles in both of those are absolute bullshit.

Armada was a good RTS, I didn't much care for Armada II. (Though the Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is excellent.)

Birth of the Federation was almost a good 4X game, but crippled by janky code and a game-breaking memory leak that renders the game almost unplayable after Turn 200.

Bridge Commander was decent, not great. Helped a lot by mods.

Starfleet Academy felt like Wing Commander with a Star Trek skin, especially with ship movement. Klingon Academy was fun, but janky and held together with toothpicks, chewing gum and the wails of the wretched and the damned. You're better off watching the cinematics on YouTube.

The three Starfleet Command games were good, though the first two were the best.

Stay far, far away from Star Trek: Legacy, Hidden Evil, New Worlds and D-A-C. And if you see a copy of the Star Trek game from 2013 (the one that's based in the Kelvin timeline), set it on fire, because it's unplayable.

I might go for Star Trek Armada as it feels like the one I would like.

Oh I've seen tons of videos about the Star Trek 2009 game the one based on that film and it's a bug ridden mess

 

[USS Firefly]

My favorite Star Trek game is Klingon Academy, unfortunately I can't play it anymore
And I have played Armada and Armada II(with my friends) a lot.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There's even a bug in the 2009 Star Trek game that turns characters big and almost non existent collision detection

 

[USS Firefly]

The three Starfleet Command games were good, though the first two were the best

Does it work on Windows 10? I heard that the game has a lot of bugs

 

[Timby]

Does it work on Windows 10? I heard that the game has a lot of bugs

Couldn't tell you, I haven't tried recently, but the games are up on GOG.

 

[BillJ]

Mass Effect series.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Mass Effect series.

Haha incorrect as they are not actual Star Trek but they are what Star Trek games should have been

 

[publiusr]

Kerbal 2 is on the way---don't know if it will let you have trek-ships

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[Gingerbread Demon]

Kerbal 2 is on the way---don't know if it will let you have trek-ships

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Oooh I think I have Kerbal somewhere, the first one that is.
Starship Troopers hey, Star Trek without the bullshit, yes we still have money in the federation.

 

[publiusr]

Ha!

I like that Kerbal 2 had a Shuttle 2

Here is a spaceflight simulator
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/sfs/
https://www.space.com/moon-rover-simulated-drive-apollo-astronaut


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[Haggis and tatties]

Judgment Rites, the sequel to 25th Anniversary, is good. A Final Unity is also good. One word of warning, though, is that some late-game puzzles in both of those are absolute bullshit.

Armada was a good RTS, I didn't much care for Armada II. (Though the Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is excellent.)

Birth of the Federation was almost a good 4X game, but crippled by janky code and a game-breaking memory leak that renders the game almost unplayable after Turn 200.

Bridge Commander was decent, not great. Helped a lot by mods.

Starfleet Academy felt like Wing Commander with a Star Trek skin, especially with ship movement. Klingon Academy was fun, but janky and held together with toothpicks, chewing gum and the wails of the wretched and the damned. You're better off watching the cinematics on YouTube.

The three Starfleet Command games were good, though the first two were the best.

Stay far, far away from Star Trek: Legacy, Hidden Evil, New Worlds and D-A-C. And if you see a copy of the Star Trek game from 2013 (the one that's based in the Kelvin timeline), set it on fire, because it's unplayable.

New worlds is a game that actually became playable with each new Windows OS that came out, as is, on Win 95,98 and ME the game would crash at random times constantly, and with no save funtion of any kind in the game, and with some levels taking a hours to finish, the game was basically unplayable, then along came Windows XP, then W7, and the game would no longer crash 99% of the time and you could actually play it.

One of the few ST games i know that worked better with each new windows OS while all the rest all fell over, funny how things work out. Lol

But if you do want to play these older ST games never buy them from Steam, only buy them from GOG, as the GOG versions are the only versions that are pre-tweaked for you by the GOG team to run on modern OS.

 

[Rincewiend]

I have ST 25th Anniversary and that was good and both versions of Elite Force.

What others are good? There's a pile of them on GOG now going cheap would love all your thoughts on pros and cons and what games seem fun and what to avoid.

https://www.trekbbs.com/forums/trek-gaming.12/

 

[Owain Taggart]

Some of the very early Trek games are kind of rough. The very first PC game I ever purchased was Star Trek: Rebel Universe. Honestly, I don't remember much about it and I never got very far into it because from a gameplay perspective, it felt very abstract. I never really knew what I was doing or what I was accomplishing. https://www.mobygames.com/game/1212/star-trek-the-rebel-universe/

There was also a series of text adventures, possibly a trilogy, that Simon & Schuster released that were some of the earliest license uses I can remember. Again, never got very far, in them, but I remember being amazed at the amount of freedom in the game, being able to visit every deck if you wanted to and order people around. And if you cursed up a storm, the game had a response to that, in having McCoy haul you off to the brig after repeated warnings, which I always thought it was hilarious.

 

[Eckauskas]

Judgment Rites, the sequel to 25th Anniversary, is good. A Final Unity is also good. One word of warning, though, is that some late-game puzzles in both of those are absolute bullshit.

Armada was a good RTS, I didn't much care for Armada II. (Though the Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is excellent.)

Birth of the Federation was almost a good 4X game, but crippled by janky code and a game-breaking memory leak that renders the game almost unplayable after Turn 200.

Bridge Commander was decent, not great. Helped a lot by mods.

Starfleet Academy felt like Wing Commander with a Star Trek skin, especially with ship movement. Klingon Academy was fun, but janky and held together with toothpicks, chewing gum and the wails of the wretched and the damned. You're better off watching the cinematics on YouTube.

The three Starfleet Command games were good, though the first two were the best.

Stay far, far away from Star Trek: Legacy, Hidden Evil, New Worlds and D-A-C. And if you see a copy of the Star Trek game from 2013 (the one that's based in the Kelvin timeline), set it on fire, because it's unplayable.

I think I must be in the minority considering some of the opinions I’ve seen about it, but I actually enjoyed Legacy. It was the first time I got to control Federation starships and I thought that was pretty cool. I’m not sure if it’ll hold up particularly well now though.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^I though legacy was great, and moreso because we got Shatner, Stewart, Brooks, Mulgrew and Bakula voicing all in the one game.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

There's always the old "Strategic Operations Simulator" arcade game. Or the positively hoary old "Star Trek" computer game (typically implemented in BASIC, but there was at least one FORTRAN version, that ran on the student timeshare system at my high school, in the late 1970s), which undoubtedly inspired it. Then there's something called "STARTK" (which I extensively revised as "FSTREK," for Fountain Valley Star Trek), also on the student timeshare system, which was against a single enemy ship (in my expanded revision, the enemy ship's behavior varied according to whether it was Klingon, Romulan, or Tholian).

 

[Timby]

^^^I though legacy was great, and moreso because we got Shatner, Stewart, Brooks, Mulgrew and Bakula voicing all in the one game.

Sure, the novelty of the voices was fun and all, but that doesn't matter a hoot when the gameplay is microwaved dogshit. It was glitchy as hell, the controls were non-sensical and the AI was beyond stupid.

Presentation only goes so far.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I personally never had no real issues playing the game, worked great, and i was only a few achievements off 100% on the xbox 360.