You’ve waited long enough: 7 recommended games on Steam have just reached a new low price. For Peter, every single one of them is a blast.
The Steam Summer Sale is underway and one game, one deal, stands out in particular for me Six euros for a Star Trek mini-series in the style of The Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space Nine? So please, if that’s not a great deal for sci-fi fans!
If you love the generation of Star Trek captains from Picard, Janeway and Sisko you should beam this interactive movie straight into your shopping cart. Thanks to the playfully shallow adventure game from mini developer Dramatic Labs, people with a passion for Star Trek can immerse themselves in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future in a way that hasn’t been possible in PC games for a long time.
If you’re still hesitating in the face of 75 percent discount and the lowest price since release, you shouldn’t do anything for the next two minutes – after that, you’re guaranteed to be convinced to buy.
The soul of the Federation
What makes Star Trek: Resurgence from the year 2023 such a special game for me? It’s certainly not the graphics; there’s still a lot of room for improvement, especially when it comes to the mechanical animations of the characters. The action sequences with mini-games and quick-time events also often feel clumsy.
But that’s not the core of Star Trek: Resurgence, which is set on the spaceship Resolute with a completely new crew after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
The detailed realization of iconic locations such as the engine room, the ships in space and the LCARS user interface make my Trekkie heart beat faster. Every button, every prop is unmistakably Star Trek, down to the smallest detail. This love for the series more than makes up for the technical shortcomings in my eyes.
Ten hours of Star Trek
In the role of the heroic duo Jara Rydek and Carter Diaz, players navigate a charged diplomatic conflict that escalates into a sector-wide threat. Despite all the drama, the theme of optimism, cohesion and international understanding runs like a common thread through the plot. In other words, some of the central values of Starfleet and the Federation.
About ten hours of everything I loved about the old Star Trek. The story is written by fans of the earlier series from the 90s and 2000s, and you can tell that at every turn. In the meantime, the developers have fixed many bugs and added a German text translation; with 89 percent positive user reviews, the title is a hit on Steam.
Yes, much like Telltale (some of the developers used to work there), the decision-making moments are often only fake and the plot doesn’t branch out as much as you might like, depending on your choices in the dialogs.
Star Trek: Resurgence nevertheless delivers exactly what many Trekkies need right now: A return to times gone by with plenty of nostalgia, but also lots of new impulses. The Trek isn’t perfect, but for just six euros on Steam, this adventure game is still an absolute must-buy for anyone with a connection to the universe.