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Star Trek Outposts Unknown

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There is a new Star Trek game called Star Trek Outposts Unknown. It is a narrative driven city builder game set in the Trek universe. You play a captain of a starfleet ship tasked with exploring and building an outpost on an alien planet. The planet is located near tetryons rifts which cause problems and I am guessing will be part of the narrative mystery that you will have to solve. There is a demo out on Steam. I tried it. It looks pretty cool. It has that Star Trek feel. You place probes to explore the map and reveal resources. You can give tasks to your officers. You can do research. And of course, you can collect resources and build buildings on the planet to set up your outpost, while managing problems etc, like your city builder type game. The interface looks a bit clunky but that could just be me not used to it yet.

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Glad to see it’s coming out for Mac, though my Mac is old enough that, ironically, I can only play it by booting into Windows.
 
I played it for 20 minutes and it didn't make a great first impression.

It reminded me of a lot of other games where you gather resources and make buildings, except the UI was a little more awkward, it was a little less clear what it expected me to do, and I wasn't feeling any particular motivation to do it. Also the first officer is obsessed with coffee, to the point where I wanted to yell "Okay, I've seen Voyager too, I get it!". And the away team sleeps on the ground at night unless you build them a shuttle landing pad to fly back up to their quarters, which is kind of strange.
 
Just seems like Trek would be ripe for a ship construction game.

There was a game released back in 1998 called "star trek: starship creator" that did that. You could pick a ship class and then mix-match different nacelles, hull shapes etc... to build your ship. You could also select different systems like weapons, shields and select your crew from trek shows. For example, you could have Kirk as captain with Data as XO. Once you finished your ship and had your bridge crew, you could send it on missions to see it performs.


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I played it back in the day. Unfortunately, there was not a lot of replayability imo. Sure, you could build a galaxy class with super long nacelles or an intrepid class with 4 nacelles but the missions were boring. So it was kinda fun to look at your cool looking kitbash but other than that, there was not much to the game. I think it would very cool if someone rebooted this game with modern graphics and gameplay mechanics. with some creativity, you could make the game truly interesting.
 
There was a game released back in 1998 called "star trek: starship creator" that did that. You could pick a ship class and then mix-match different nacelles, hull shapes etc... to build your ship. You could also select different systems like weapons, shields and select your crew from trek shows. For example, you could have Kirk as captain with Data as XO. Once you finished your ship and had your bridge crew, you could send it on missions to see it performs.


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I played it back in the day. Unfortunately, there was not a lot of replayability imo. Sure, you could build a galaxy class with super long nacelles or an intrepid class with 4 nacelles but the missions were boring. So it was kinda fun to look at your cool looking kitbash but other than that, there was not much to the game. I think it would very cool if someone rebooted this game with modern graphics and gameplay mechanics. with some creativity, you could make the game truly interesting.

I remember Starship Creator. Some fun times.
 
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