10 Best Star Trek Video Games
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Birth of the Federation really should have been on here. A Star Trek themed Master of Orion style 4x strategy game - genius!
It was my obsession in the late 90's and early 00's. Sure, compared to modern games its clunky and limited... but for the time? Oooof, it was so good.
@@andromidius Have you tried the Sins of a Solar Empire total mod Armada 3 ? Its pretty good.
@@thepoliticalstartrek That mod is amazing.
I played that a lot back in the day and really enjoyed it, but unfortunately it was also pretty buggy and unbalanced.
There are a multitude of mods availabe for BotF, most of which (if not all) even feature a full HD (1080p) screen update and are still updated/maintained (so that it can keep running on Windows 10 (and I'm pretty sure iOS and Linux as well)) to this day.
I am missing "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation". It's a 4X game from 1999, that is still played AND modded today.
I love that game, and I come back to it (both the original and multiple mods) on a regular basis.
....where are the mods?!? I now need this back in my life
I’d love to see a Mass Effect style Star Trek game, you have to get a few different races to work together to stop a major Borg invasion or something.
Multiple endings based on how many you got on side etc.
That would be perfect for the earth romulan war getting the vulcans andorians and tellarites to finally put aside their differences and unite. Even though enterprise did some of that it still would be cool.
Birth of the Federation deserved top spot.
Whenever someone puts "Star Trek" and "game" in the same sentence I flashback to a random space disaster ruining everything.
Yup, I remember spending hours playing this game and there were a few o mods that even came out that made the game more fun to play.
No birth of the Federation? You philistine! ;)
I would’ve had an honorable mention for Star Trek Borg just because of how awesome John De Lancie is in it
Birth of the Federation is the best Star Trek game!!
Thomas Chappell loved that game
@@MattFergusonmwfergo same. Literally spent days on end playing it with friends. I used to go back to it until a few years ago when Endless Space scratched the itch
Yes!!!!!
100 percent agree with you on this!
100% agree! I wish I could get a working version on my Mac.
Bridge Commander was the only one that made me feel like I was in Star Trek.
If theres No birth of he federation I riot 😛😂
Seriously under apperaited x
Looks like we riot
It's amazing and is often regarded as one of the best. Whatculture are probably a bit too young to have played it.
@@nuggythebear They are young, but did have the newer VR game it is pretty good.
I'm gonna riot with you, my favourite is Star Trek: Conquest, everything about it was amazing and it even let you fly the ships and directly control your fleet.
I'm just happy there's people who enjoy all these games mention
Botf for was just perfect and still to this day maybe not the combat stuff but the menus sound design ect beutiful 🔥
The Foundry in Star Trek Online is no longer around, sadly.
As of like 2 or 3 years ago. It's, uh, real cool that TrekCulture knows their material so well...
Yep, it's been gone for a while now
As an STO player I checked the comments to see if someone mentioned this. I guess that’s what you get when you use some outdated resource to script your video, without actually playing it 🤓
And it's not been the same since. A crying, crying shame. It was the only thing that kept the game going during it's content drought.
@@LukeCampbellBrennan This is what happens when you put someone who barely plays Star Trek games front-and-center of writing a script for a video about top Star Trek video games, and not having anyone around knowledgeable to correct them.
No Star Trek DS9, The Fallen? Come on! 3 separate but crisscrossing storylines, most of the cast reprising their roles, ability to play as Worf, excellent dialogue faithful to each characterization, perfect atmosphere, excellent level design with levels such as the Defiant, an alien jungle, a Dominion Prison, an Obsidian Order base and an enemy reminding you of the Tau of WH40K.... Come on. This is unjust and unfair... Oh, well
the real game recommendations are in the messages we left
Indeed. Such a great game. Should have been tops.
I came to the comments to ask where Birth of the Federation was but looks like I’ve been beat to the punch many times over!
BotF is easily the best Star Trek game. It blends Star Trek and Civilization. What more could you want!
that does sound cool. ive never played it.
I have Star Trek Encounters on ps2. Played it for....idk 30 minutes and wanted to throw it out an airlock.
Thankfully I came to my senses and just let it become a dust collector.
@@killwalker need to get that game
No Birth of The Federation? That was an amazing 4X game, and even better with friends.
I would have loved to play with friends. In high school, my friends wanted to get a game going but the way the internet was set up...
Voyager Elite Force is the best for me. Raven software did amazing job.
I was going nuts trying to remember the name of that game. It was great, loved playing late at night after work, drinking beer. Really takes me back.
I hit the MP as well. It was fun. :D
Star Trek Online is my favourite.
Mine too!
I would agree. Though I no longer play because the place has become a microtransaction Hell, the game itself has some very strong bones. What they get right? They make the ships the hero of the game, for the most part anyway.
It’s the reason we haven’t got another game since I don’t like it .
So no STFC $6,000 USD/month for you?
same.
I used to love Armada 2. There was no greater feeling than playing as the Borg, combining 8 Tactical Cubes in to 1 mega-cube and assimilating everyone.
Tactical Fusion Cubes: The "I win" button.
yea that wasnt broken at all :P
that was possible???
@@christophreitzler5164 Oh yes! It was a bit of a pain to get them into position (any random ship passing between the separate cubes would cause the fusion to fail) but once they merge, literally nothing could stop it.
@@SaroDantra Thank you. Then I will check it :)
No DS9 The Fallen? I remember it being a lot of fun
Thank you! I would have ranked it No 1!
Isn’t it based on a book trilogy?
I remember the first time I played the demo for that game. I’m sure it was on a pc zone magazine cover cd or something. I was blown away by the graphics. It was a fantastic game with a very good story too.
Scared the shit out of me!
I got it from some free games thing way back when, one of the few discs I keep around to reinstall every so often and play through. Also the Convergence mod is pretty good.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who loved birth of the federation.
One cool thing about Star Trek Online is if you want to jump in and go through the series missions as a single player you can. You do not even need to join a fleet if you do not want to.
There is a ton of content there to keep you busy for a very long time, and all for free. Been playing it for 6 years. For a MMO to go 10 years it has to have done something right.
Star Trek Armada II was one of my favorite RTS games back in the day
I am incensed that Birth of the Federation has been snubbed
Why is the Birth of the Federation not on this list? How young are you, exactly🤣🤣🤣???
Exactly this! :)
@@xtender5 loved that game though dont miss that each turn eventually got incredibly long to complete
@@ascelot Especially if your hardware was on the older side. But absolutely one of my favorite TNG-era games.
@@xtender5 Completely agree, loved the game, played it to death shame, might now look at download
Old enough to remember Unity, which was an MS-DOS game many years older than BotF... so very bizarre that BotF didn't even get a mention.
While not a Star Trek game, Stellaris has a mod Called Star Trek New Horizons which I really love
Played the hell out of that one. Loved it.
were is birth of the federation its my second fav game of all time but i will admit that 4x strategy are not the most popular games of all time
what does "4x Strategy" mean?
@@killwalker expand exploit explore exterminate u start with your capital and a few colonies and u can pick from each of the alpha quadrant power each having there own advantages and disadvantageous and it has minor races to
@@jamesthompson3023 ah ok. cool. ty
Loved Away Team and Elite Force. Also spent so many hours on Starfleet Command. We need more games like those!!
Does anyone remember the interactive game Star Trek: Borg? That was fun.
Yup, just mentioned it.
"It's a Borg, alright! Another Borg!!! A Borg is a Borg is a Borg, seen one, seen 'em all! GOT IT?!"
Yes, awesome game.
I played Klingon Academy so much I probably still have the key commands to go to half impulse and to divert power to shields memorized. I still play Armada and Armada 2 on occasion and instead of getting dates in high school I was torpedo jumping from one end of the map to the other and vaporizing noobs in Elite Force.
I’m so glad to see A Final Unity get some recognition. It was the first game I remember falling in love with (only being 6 or 7 when it came out may have helped that) and it was the first game I ever completed. I still play it once or twice a year and downloaded a DOS emulator for that sole purpose. To this day, I still highly recommend this game.
Same for me. I was about 9 I think.
Some of my earliest and fondest gaming memories.
Birth of the Federation is the best Star Trek game. This video/list is completely invalid since it does not have it on it.
Im surprised Star Trek Shattered Universe didnt make the cut. That was pretty fun playing as an attack ship trying to take out the enemy ships in the mirror universe. Great story too
ST:Dominion Wars, early 2000's, brilliant game
Got to say Star Trek Legacy was great and had a good story, skirmish mode was good too
Lawd no. Legacy was horrendous!
Great story, but it was built on an engine which dated back to the mid 90s (yes, it used the engine used in *armada*) and most of the assets were stole. Oh, and lets not forget the horrific controls, godawful tutorials, bugs and the complete balls up they made of the manuals, in game prompts and voice overs on the various platforms (PS3 had PC prompts, Xbox had PS3 and PC had Xbox, so all the platforms referenced the other platforms controls!!). Not to mention the way the controls couldn't actually be reassigned in game. Which...god, that'd be unforgivable even for a late 80s game.
Even if these things were sorted out, it's still a gigantic step backwards compared to BC.
This is how you know Birth of The Federation (BoTF) was amazing.
I was playing a multiplayer game with my friend; I was Romulan, he was Klingon. The Ferengi were attacking along with the Cardassians... and I was getting my pointy eared butt handed to me. I asked my friend for help, since you know... KLINGONS. He said no because the Ferengi were trade partners with him and bringing in lots of credits so he could fight The Federation. So, being a Romulan, I shifted my espionage to my friend and stole one of his ships (Heavy Cruiser that I integrated into a fleet so he wouldn't find it) and framed the Ferengi. He went to war with them and I managed to win that game. For YEARS he thought nothing of it, just one multiplayer game in a long line of many. I told him like 15 years later what I did and he stopped talking to me for a week LMAO.
Now THAT was a great 4X game.
Ahh, the irony of the Romulans framing one race to get another to join them in a war... ;)
really no birth of the federation maybe do research before doing a video lol
Birth of the Federation should have been 1
It is a travesty that Star Trek: Birth of the Federation didn't make it on this list.
No Birth of the Federation? Sad times.
Bridge Commander is my personal favorite, so many mods made for it also.
If ANY ST game needs to be either remastered for current systems or just being remade as a new title, it's Armada!!
That game was damn good! It even had Sir Patrick Stewart doing voice work in game!!
Controlling fleets of Galaxies, Sovereigns, Nebulas, Defiants, etc was awesome!
The Borg were no joke to fight against either! It needed more factions like the Klingons, Romulans, etc because it was only Federation vs Borg, but adding in other Villain groups like the Cardassians, Dominion, Been, etc could really add a ton of gameplay options for online, multiplayer matches!
So yeah, I would love love love it if Armada was remade into a new version! (as long as EA, 2K, Ubisoft, or Bethesda are not involved!!)
Armada is the perfect stragey game and the mods oh yess
Try Sins of a Solar Empire then. There's a breathtaking ST mod availlable: Armada 3
I spent 100's of hours
@@dorfpomeranze yeah i heard about that but is it any good?
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock yes it is. I actually never played the vanilla Sins of a solar empire but only with the Armada 3 Mod (can be downloaded from Moddb). The factions are nicely balanced, there's feds, Klingons, Romulans, cards and Borg. The Cardassian research tree allows you to decide if you want to be pure Cardassian or if you want to go Dominion style. The factions have different traits. Feds: cash and quality ships, Klingons: cheap and well armed, Borg: Big (huge) and expensive, ...
Each faction has heroes you can call, Picard, Sisko, Dukat, Martok, Tomalak, the Borg Queen, ....
My favs are the cards.
@@dorfpomeranze cool gonna try that out , awesome 😆, i like the galatic civ 2 star trek mod but now im excited to try this
This list really comes off as people who haven’t actually played many Star Trek games from the out of date information about the modern entries and missing a lot of the lesser known but well received games on mobile, from Simon and Schuster, and Bethesda. Besides, these days many of the ideal Trek games do exist and are very popular - as mods for other games.
Starfleet Command Gold Edition was my freaking jam 21 years ago.
Armada better be in here !
I loved Invasion on the PS1.
The Star Trek Online Foundry system was shut down ages ago, brother.
Birth of the Federation deserves to be on this list. It was one of the best Star Trek games of its time. I still own 3 copies of the game from back when my friends and I would have LAN parties all night playing BoF.
The top star trek games aren't games, they are Mods of games. My suggestions are Stellaris: Star trek new horizon mod and the star trek mod of Sins of a solar empire.
I did know ST: New Horizons but I didn't know ST: Armada 3. I will gonna check it out, thanks.
I have something like 300 hours in Star Trek online. It's the best game I've played where half the game (ground) is absolutely trash. That's just how good the other half (space) is.
Then you haven't played Klingon Academy. ST Online is rubbish.
@@flexyco ok thank you, Random Negative Opinion Person. Your contribution has truly enrichened everyone who experiences it
You're welcome, random dumb fuck.
Always wanted a Star Trek: Voyager game that drops you in Delta quadrant and you as Capitan must get your crew home.
Or just play the Oregon Trail. The only difference would be that Nelix would be the cause of dysentery in a Voyager version.
That idea as a rouge-lite would be great!
Armada was a BOSS game, just so so short!
By the Prophets, do your research. The STO Foundry has been gone for years (much to the annoyance of many a player).
haha. Well said. Jolan Tru.
@Brandon Taylor The foundry missions were often better than the story missions.
There were a ton of mirror universe missions in there, and some guy was remaking all the story missions but from a mirror universe perspective. It was awesome.
@@garethfairclough8715 Often? The foundry was mostly used as a way to cheese the endeavor system, very few of the missions created were worth running.
Star Trek: Star Fleet Acadamy is my favourite and the best i know.
I still have that lying around the house somewhere! I quite liked Klingon Academy too?
I replayed it recently, it still holds up. It was basically a Wing Commander 3/4 clone, but that's not a bad thing. Definitely one of my favourite Star Trek games.
Loved that game and often credit it to being a forefather to Star Trek Online... before it went downhill with the release of the "Iconian War" and them revamping not just the Cardassian story arc (which still doesnt focus solely on the Cardassians but the Mirror Universe and the Alpha-Quadrant Dominion!) to butchering the Klingon War and Romulan Mystery story arcs.
How could Starfleet Academy not be on this list? Birth of the Federation was also a great game. Star Trek Hidden Evil took over where Insurrection movie ended... also a fun play.
No DS9: The Fallen? It had a great story.
i was playing star trek timline while having this video in the background
Thing with STO, the foundry has been removed from the game for a few years now.
No mention of the original Trek arcade game? Or "Borg" the interactive novel?
LOL... speaking as a kid who played Star Trek (in the early 70's) on a terminal where the only screen was a printer, it's come a LONG (Very) way.
As always thank you so very much for the video.
Star Trek Invasion for the Ps1 was amazing even though it crashed often 😅
Armada 1&2 and Elite Force 1&2!
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force and Star Trek Bridge Commander were legendary games. Addictive, fun. I enjoyed playing these 2 games.
For anyone who never played Elite Force and is wondering why the Borg don’t adapt to he shots: this is an Infinity Modulator, a weapon invented by Seven to counter the Borg’s ability to adapt by constantly modulating the frequency of the shots in a non-predictable pattern. It’s the only weapon you have that is useful against them beyond two-three shots.
In the first level of the sequel, the I-Mod is disabled by a Borg jamming field, forcing you to use weapons sparingly and mainly just avoid the lumbering drones as you try to save Voyager (it takes places during the series finale, while the ship is trapped inside a sphere)
06:14 min Regarding Star Trek: Klingon Academy, it is worth mentioning that when the game was unfortunately abandoned by the developers, very ambitious modders modified it. You could fly all the TNG ships with the mods, incl. Borg ships, current Romulan ships etc.. This was more fun than the original game and the developers missed a chance from my point of view.
I can't believe Star Trek: Invasion isn't on here 😅
Thought it's a shame the best Star Trek games are total conversion mods for the likes of Stellaris.
No love for Star Trek Deep Space Nine Harbinger? That was my favourite back in the day, getting to walk around the station! Not to mention it had a fantastic murder-mystery story, and all the cast of the show.
I had to scroll a lot to until I've found someone(you) mentioning that game, it was my favorite as well, but I guess it wasn't very successful at the time because of the relatively basic graphics that used frame by frame movement so not many people remember it today.
@@E_y_a_l It reminded me a lot of the first Myst game, the style and look of the puzzle solving and the atmosphere. I felt it was dead immersive as well. I did try and replay it lately though and the gameplay was so clunky. Still, great story and great atmosphere!
I played A Final Unity back in the day and I thought it was terrific by the standards of the time. The plot, characterizations, and the puzzles were great fun.
I loved star trek encounters as a kid!
Fleet command 2: Orion Pirates and armada 3 are thr highlights. You see both game styles in this list but these two games are the best of those series. You can get armada 3 very easily right now on moddb so maybe you should
I loved playing Elite Force. It had all the proper elements. It was challenging, visually stunning for the time, and had a pretty good story.
Greetings Trek Culture, So I am curious why you didn't include Star Trek Legacy? I thought that was a pretty good Single player game and the ship battles were pretty cool.
Seconded. Not to mention the community driven mods that are released regularly.
Star Trek: Conquest was and still is amazing, everything about it was great!
Conquest is my favorite too!
"Taking the accepted Star Trek Canon, ripping it up, throwing it into a bin, setting said bin on fire and then launching its ashes out of a cannon into the sun"
- Sercret Hideout / Alex Kurtzman.
Away Team is basically Commandos in space.
Fun fact: the technology from the game (a ship using external holoprojectors to disguise itself as another ship) appears in Armada II and in Starfleet Command III. The Romulans even complain that it violates the spirit of the Treaty of Algeron, if not the letter.
Even DIS has a Section 31 ship use holoprojectors to appear as an asteroid
The 2 handed punch is actually a WWII allied close combat technique called a Rabbit punch. Its really tricky to do right but I can say from experience that done right there isn't much you can do to stand up to it.
I love that you pilot the Dauntless in Bridge Commander but not the Dauntless from Voyager
Star trek online is hands down my favorite star trek game still playing it till this day
I got into _STO_ 2 years ago, and didn't find it that hard to get into when comparing my kit to those of older players -- mostly because most people don't touch the PvP. No, the difficulty is in the learning curve of how the world works, what each currency is and how it's used, the different energy types, stuff like that that the tutorial doesn't really cover. Which is why so many CZcamsrs, myself included, made tutorial videos covering everything else the game doesn't. True, _STO_ is approaching its 11th year of service, and the engine shows it, but in all other aspects it is a great _Star Trek_ MMO. And now they've just added the ability for Klingon players to use Starfleet ships as well.
Star Trek New Horizons, a Stellaris full conversion mod. This turns the game into a massive, galaxy wide Star Trek game. You can play almost every civilization, like Humans or Vulcans and (maybe) found the federation or Cardassians or maybe the Dominion. Tons of references, arcs and lore. Feels like a professionally made game. Must play IMHO.
You can also play as the Borg, and assimilate the entire galaxy!
In my personal opinion, STO (Star Trek Online) is the best game in this list
same.
The one where they're flying around trying to shoot the big laser moon thing was awesome....
I had a lot of fun with ST Invasion and ST Encounters.
Star Trek Invasion, Star Trek Dominion Wars, Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen - those titles gave me much joy in their time. I miss those days.
I haven't played all the star trek games, but some of my unmentioned favorites are:
Star trek Borg and star trek ship creator.
Though with ship creator, one of the best things was being familiar with the Prometheus class before its appearance in star trek voyager.
Also trying to create a ship capable of getting through the missions.
Start trek Borg allowed you to play through a live action story of star trek in. First person POV accompanied by Q.
I loved Elite Force and played that sooo much as a kid, especially the online multiplayer. And I spent a lot of time with Starship Creator - the missions and "gameplay" weren't very fun, but you got to design and build your own custom variants of the classic starship classes (through Voyager era) But my favorite was Starfleet Academy... lots of replay value, actually important/well made cut scenes and TOS era cameos, plus fun ship to ship combat/missions.
I'd love a remastered "A Final Unity"...
I absolutely loved playing Bridge Commander, Voyager: Elite Force and Elite Force 2 for many years. Just being able to walk around the familiar ship environments and hear familiar voices (not just main cast but well-known recurring guest cast like Jeffrey Combs, Vaughan Armstrong and Tony Todd) was so exciting. As you mentioned, there were a lot of fan-made mods for all of them through the years, some of which REALLY improved the graphics. But there was also an official "expansion pack" for Voyager: Elite Force, which (among other things) finally gave us Jeri Ryan voicing Seven of Nine (it just wasn't right having someone totally different voicing the character beforehand!). I'd like to also shout-out "Star Trek Borg", "Star Trek Klingon", "Deep Space Nine: The Fallen" and "Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars". All of them gave me many years of great gameplay too.
Armada wasnt just a ship on ship combat, it had an interwoven story line between the federation, Klingons, Romulans and Borg and it was fantastic to go through each level. I always played the Romulans due to everyone hating playing them but I spent many hours on this game and still have it to this day
I've played them all save for the "Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity" title. I'm not sure how I missed that one. I think Klingon Academy was my favorite oddly enough. I loved that.
bridge crew is one of my favourite games its so funny with a good crew
Starfleet Command is brilliant especially its sequels. The modding was easy and brilliant.
I STILL play Armada, It’s a good distraction from life.
Some Star Trek Games are truly great. They’ll just never get as big advertising or popularity as other franchises.
You forgot the best Star Trek game EVER Star Trek Echos Of The Past Sega Genesis
There is also the classic Enterprise from TOS in Bride Crew. It's a lot of fun pushing these buttons and trying to remember the functions of those buttons since they are not labeled. ^^
Elite Force is still one of my favorite games and I am playing it almost every year. Bridge Commander was also a lot of fun. Thanks to GOG I was able to play the old point and click adventures, it was like playing Episodes of TOS. Many good games in this list.
No Starfleet Academy? With its full motion video segments?
TrekCulture next week: "Here's 10 more of the best Star Trek games"
I wasn't thinking about it at all until I looked at the comments, but I've probably sunken more time into Birth of the Federation that any other game I've ever played. Every day after school for a couple years at least, and in the evenings. I don't know why, but it was addictive.
ST: encounters was always my favorite. Yes the campaign was lackluster, but onslaught was awesome. My bro and I would play it for hours
You left out the Best part of BridgeCommander: Being able to precisely cut Enemy Ships into pieces.
Suring Battle, you can directly aim at the Impulse-engines, then cut off the Warp-Nacelles, then take some distance and repair eveything on your Ship, returning to reduce the Enemy Ship into a hull without Shields and Weapons as well, permanently trapping them in Space or until you decide to end their suffering.
Elite Force is a fun game. It even had an add-on that allowed you to just wander around Voyager and interact with characters. The game even gave you the option of choosing your character’s sex, with two sets of voices and name change: Alexander and Alexandria.
It spawned a sequel set after the show, when the Hazard Team is first disbanded by some desk jockey and then reassembled when Picard puts his foot down, this time on the Enrerprise-E. Unfortunately, they made the male character canon, so that they could add a romance subplot with either a woman on your team or an alien archaeologist whose outfit makes Lara Croft look overdressed. But you do get to argue the Rules of Acquisition with a Ferengi and infiltrate a Romulan prison camp
As far as Star Trek Online goes, some of us veteran players have dedicated our time and content to help new players learn the ropes. I dedicate all my content to it.
I’m not sure if this was only a PC list, but the Sega Genesis game “Echos of the Past” was awesome. It had everything you said ST games should have it had fighting and problem solving as well as ship immersion.
On the subject of discovering my unexpected shared love of birth of the federation, I'd like to paraphrase a tng quote "this morning I thought i was the center of the universe, and this afternoon, i find out im just a voice in a chorus... But I think it was a good day..." Oh.. and play more civ3. P.S. Elite Force memories - Getting sent to the brig because I loitered on the bridge too long taking an astonished look, instead of following orders, was amazing. And the dark mirror surprise, was worth the price of admission alone.
Elite Force RIPS. I really miss those story driven late '90s & early 2000s FPS games.