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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing fine and are well prepared for the winter holidays!

We at Dramatic Labs want to sweeten the festive season a little and are therefore giving away a total of 10 copies of Star Trek Resurgence on a platform of your choice (PS4, PS5, Xbox or PC).

Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative-driven adventure game created by former members of Telltale Games that delivers all the excitement and wonder of the Star Trek universe. Join the crew of the U.S.S. Resolute as first officer Jara Rydek and enlisted engineer Carter Diaz on a mission to prevent an eons-old and powerful force from engulfing everything in its wake!

To take part, you have to comment on which Star Trek games you grew up with and which one was your favourite. The 10 winners will be randomly selected and contacted by me. The giveaway will run until 21st December 23:59 CET.

We would also be very happy if you visit us on our socials:

Discord: https://discord.gg/4PnJRN7xqy

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TrekResurgence

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091845953352

Have fun and I look forward to your comments! 🖖

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I must sadly recuse myself from the giveaway (curse my sense of ethics!), but I can confirm that OP is indeed the Community Manager for Star Trek Resurgence at Dramatic Labs.

Good luck to everyone!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just wanted to say it's really neat to have a giveaway for a Star Trek game here. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I know right? Really glad to see them embracing the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Yannik

Is this game still exclusive to Epic?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hi! Yes, currently. We are heading to Steam in 2024. You can already wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653940/Star_Trek_Resurgence/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

@Yannik @blaine Will it support Steam Deck?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

EXPERIENCE BIJ!

But in all seriousness I enjoyed a bunch of Voyager: Elite force and have been getting into Birth of the Federation lately :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh, yes, one of my first DOS games, played it lots, but I don’t think I ever cleared the board. Always ended up running into three or four Klingon ships and getting blown up.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was a big fan of the Elite Force games, but the one I enjoyed most was a DVD game from the mid to late 90s that doesn’t seem to exist. It was similar to the activision Zork games of the era, but Gowron was making Gowron eyes at the screen a lot; I’m considering that I’ve merged two games I played together, and made a false memory, but honestly I don’t know what games those would’ve been either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although not text based, there was a FMV game called Star Trek: Klingon (YouTube link to a longplay) where Gowron does a bunch of Gowron things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

See I’m sure that’s some of what I’m remembering, but at least when I played Klingon about 2007 it didn’t seem to be the same game.

(Btw, the Acti Zork games are acted DVD graphical adventures, unlike their text based precursors. Worth a go if you can. )

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

My favorite Star Trek game is the sims. Make sure you have a few people with the name redshirt. Make sure those people have low stats in cooking and make them do all the cleaning. See how long they last. Then have other people as the officers. They just play all the time and enjoy themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

All the old point & clickers were good fun. The one I played the most was TNG A Final Unity. Nostalgia hitting pretty hard right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Star Trek Armada, hands down the best Star Trek game I've played. I do like the feeling of captaining my own ship in Online, nothing beats the feeling of winning a war via RTS.

And now that I'm older, and have seen more Treks, read more books, and have a much greater knowledge of all things Star Trek, I've been wanting to replay but I can't seem to locate my disc... I'll have to check my digital providers to see if I can find it most likely.

I'd love to see a modern take on a 4X Star Trek. Flavor mods for Stellaris and Sins of a Solar Empire don't cut it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Honestly, I have never played a Star Trek game, I've only watched the shows and some of the movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I played Star Trek Pinball lol

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[–] n01getsout 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The first Star Trek game I played was a shareware version of EGA Trek for DOS, which was also one of the first computer games I ever played.

I remember it would tell you a starbase was under attack and you would have to go there to defend it. One of my torpedoes missed and hit a star which made it go supernova, destroying the enemy ship. Fun times.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was that old Voyager fps, Elite Force, that kicked ass.

I put a stupid amount of hours into Starfleet Command. Probably my all time favorite. I'm the kind of person who geeks out on power and shield management.

I played a lot of Sins of a Solar Empire and I mention that because there was a cool Star Trek mod for that game I played for a bit.

Lastly, I played STO for a couple years. Loved the story and space combat but man the ground missions a slog. Still I enjoyed that game a bunch.

I feel like I'm missing something but I can't think of any more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Starfleet Command 2 Klingon Academy Armada 1 & 2 Hidden Evil Elite Force 1 & 2 Final Unity Bridge Commander

I played them all to death! Such a good time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Does modded stellaris count?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I pleaded and got Star Trek: A Final Unity for my birthday one year. Even on my ancient Mac it was amazing. Like playing an episode of TNG.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Man what games didn't I play as a kid.

  • ST Armada 1 and 2 (FleetOps)
  • Birth of the Federation
  • ST Borg
  • Elite force 1 and 2
  • The DS9 FPS which I forget the name
  • Bridge commander
  • ST Dominion War
  • Starfleet command 3

There's probably some I'm forgetting. I'd have to say Armada 2, man I played so many hours of that game. Played around with mods as a kid too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

By far my favourite ST game is 25th Anniversary from Interplay released in 1992. I grew up in the 70s so TOS was very near and dear to me. In 92 I was reviewing games right at the peak of CD ROM and MS DOS gaming and 25th Anniversary really typified the best of both by including beautiful VGA graphics and a fantastic soundtrack complete with actual sounds from the series and the entire cast in their signature roles. Playing it was like being in the show, nothing else has quite replicated that feeling because it was like the cast was putting on a performance just for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As a Iong time ST fan I just way to say, this game was a great time. It was like I was playing through a ST episode, dilemma and all. Sending a ship to warp cinematically was something I never knew I wanted to do, but it was perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I was an adult when I got/played it, but Star Trek: Bridge Crew was a blast to play on my Vive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I miss playing Star Trek Armada.

[–] SteadyGoLucky 3 points 11 months ago

I clearly remember screaming a lot of "Ferengan Ha'DIbaH!" in the microphone for Star Trek: Klingon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force!! I both loved and hated that game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I got my Trekkie mom the Star Trek 25th Anniversary game for christmas, but I defitnely ended up playing it more myself!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Never played any star trek games as a kid. Honestly the only one I played is bridge crew and it's awesome. Every once in a while I drum up some friends and we play it. It's a blast!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

First of all, thanks for the giveaway!

My first Star Trek game was actually Star Trek Online, but I'll probably always have a soft spot for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time for the SNES.

I'm definitely happy to see Resurgence coming to Steam though, I don't buy from anyone except for them and GOG.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I always loved the 92' version of Star trek the board game! Lots of good times, plus I just another box unopened from a garage sale! Want to break into it but I probably won't do this would be cool on PC!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh man! I used to play the Star Trek: The Next Generation Echoes From the Past game on Sega Genesis. I was really young but loved flying the Enterprise around and pissing off the Romulans.

I played around with the Star Trek: Encyclopedia on PC which was fun and then much later on I play Star Trek Online now and again. It scratches that Star Trek itch to fly ships around and customize them. Great game but I'll never forget the times with that Sega game.

[–] Ghyste 3 points 11 months ago

I honestly haven't played any Star Trek games. None really piqued my interest. This game, however, is one I'd like to check out. First time for everything!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A little past growing up but I played a lot of the Snes and Nes games. They had issues but once you figured out the gameplay loop they could be very fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I played a lot of Armada (1 & 2) and loved Elite Force (1 & 2). I tried Command and Final Unity but I didn't understand English enough at the time to know what to do. My favourite game was DS9 Harbinger though because DS9 was also my favourite show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Star Trek DS9: Crossroads of Time on Super Nintendo.

My favorite memory of it was from the first day: a friend telling me I couldn't use the same phaser twice against Borg drones. I was confident they wouldn't put a detail like like that in a game. Not two seconds later, the very next drone blocked my phaser. (Clearly one of Trek's ongoing lessons in the arrogance of man. Ahem.)

Seems silly looking back to think game devs wouldn't care as much (or more!) as I did about Star Trek to add in ideas like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Growing up in the UK when Star Trek was big in the cinema but not so much on home computers, I had to make do with a few Trekalikes.

STAR RAIDERS - Atari 2600
This game was groundbreaking for its time. It came with a separate keypad that replaced one of the joysticks, enabling secondary controls at a push.

KNIGHT TYME - ZX Spectrum
A cartoonish adventure game featuring the hero ‘Magic Knight’. Sent to the future, he commanded a starship and beamed down to planets.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Atari 5200 Trek. I absolutely loved that game as a kid and I still have the box and manual to this day.

That and PacMan are the only two games I had on the system. A beloved neighbor bought it brand new in the box from a yard sale and gave it to me around the the time the SNES came out.

Once we got that the Atari collected dust. We moved on and beat Super Mario World over and over again.

I still have a sweet spot for that game. Unfortunately the last time I dug the Atari out the controllers didn’t work any more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I played both Starfleet and Klingon academy back in the day, this and xwing/tie fighter were what got me into space sims

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I played an Interplay star Trek point and click game as a kid that I was terrible at, but really enjoyed. Also Elite Forces was FANTASTIC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not played any of them before, but this looks great to jump in with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Like many others, Elite Force!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I spent the early 2000s playing Star Trek: Armada and Voyager: Elite Force. Pretty sure you can get them on GoG if you’re looking for nostalgia and a good night of gaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I played so many hours of Klingon Academy. Spent a lot of time just in ship battles. That was back when game manuals were huge. It had entries on all the weapons, their capabilities, everything.

Star Trek Generations was probably my first game but I was a bit too young for the puzzle solving and never was able to beat it back then. And Dominion Wars was another one. I guess I was primarily a ships battle kind of guy. Prepped me for games like Elite Dangerous and No man's sky. Glad they're making new space sims nowadays there was a drought for so long!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I grew up playing the 25th anniversary game on pc. The point and click adventure one. Loved all the ways you could kill redshirts

My all time fave one is the VR one. Have had hours of fun playing it coop w my buddies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Star Trek: Away Team was fun kind of xcom type game. Which I still enjoy those games.

Star Trek: Armada like others. Mainly because of my love of RTS and trek.

Star Trek: Legacy I’ve always enjoyed strategy games. Im fairly sure it was this game where I had a bug or Easter egg. Trying to beam up Thomas Riker in the middle of a fight I had two ships lock on. In the end I ended up with two of him, which felt kind of fitting so never could tell if Easter egg or not.

There was one online texted I think java based game online in 95/96, where you can control a ship and could meet other players. I was really really bad that.

Also a “Star Trek” game that I’m fairly sure was a rip off of EGA Star Trek that came in one of those bundle boxes that were like 30 games for $10 on cd.

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