To bodily gore when no man has gone before.
Well here’s something that wasn’t on my Summer Game Fest bingo card. Bloober Team, the studio behind the likes of Observer and 2024’s sublime Silent Hill 2 remake, has unveiled its latest foray into the dread world of horror: a Star Trek game coming next year.
Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is officially described as a “sci-fi psychological thriller” unfolding on a mysterious – and decidedly hostile – uncharted planet. Our unlucky protagonist is one Ro Laren, seen in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Picard, who’ll once again be played by Michelle Forbes.
Laren’s nightmare begins when she crashlands after attempting to respond to a distress call. “The planet is a spaceship graveyard where nothing is as it seems,” explains publisher Paramount. “As she explores the planet’s corrupted surface and crosses paths with other survivors, she must face twisted creatures, a hostile ecosystem, and an entity that seeks to envelop her body and mind.” And behold: a teaser trailer.
Speaking as a fan of the studio’s sometimes uneven but usually interesting stuff, Bloober and Star Trek sounds like an intriguing combination, even if it’s apparently not the first time the legendary sci-fi series has gone horror in the world of video games (that honour appears to go to VR title Star Trek: Infection). We’ll know how it all works out when Star Trek: Shadow Frontier launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC at some point “next year”.
Bloober, of course, has a lot going on right now. Following on from 2025’s sci-fi horror Cronos: The New Dawn, the studio has confirmed it’s also working on a remake of Silent Hill 1 for Konami and a third proper entry in its Layers of Fear series. That’s alongside a number of other games, some of which – including the Switch-exclusive Project M – are being made in partnership with Bloober’s subsidiary studio Broken Mirror Games.
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