Star Trek: Resurgence

At its best Resurgence can feel like a good and fast paced multi part Star Trek episode with some good writing, better acting than you sometimes get from the shows, and where you see your choices come back in future scenes and alter the fates of certain characters. It can also feel a bit too rushed narratively in some areas, and at worse it really shows its low budget with the visual and technical look and feel, has terrible tacked on moments to add needless minigame and simplistic quick time gameplay segments, and has too many characters behaving in the overly childish unprofessional way that just makes it seem like the setting shouldn't possibly be giving this many Barclay and Trois an officer rank or letting them anywhere near a starship in the first place. You shift perspectives between the newly arrived former tactical officer turned Commander Jara Rydek and engineer Carter Diaz who both serve on the USS Resolute. Rydek is a half Kobliad whose species is on the verge of extinction and requires the rare material deuridium to stabilize their cell structure to prolong their life. She is arriving to a ship that recently saw an accident kill the previous 1st officer, to a Captain who is an old friend but is more worried about his career ending than performing his duties, a senior bridge officer upset he wasn't promoted, and whose first mission takes the Resolute through a dangerous storm on a diplomatic mission where two non-Federation races have a violent dispute over a mine that acts as one of the Federations largest sources of deuridium. Carter works with his friend and fellow engineer to keep the ship together and is pulled into increasingly dangerous missions that sees former colleges become enemies. Spock is assigned to oversee the peace talks and is handled and acted well. The opening conflict turns into a larger threat to the Federation when remnants of the Tkon Empire return that eventually has Riker and Portal 63 from an early episode of Next Generation offering assistance to the Resolute. The "game" moments are where things are at their worst. Dull or one off little minigames that you will probably be confused by the sudden instructions only to realize it is such a simple thing you can quickly get it on the first try anyway, your character saying they can't possible fight three unprepared enemies they can surprise only for five minutes later to engage in a prolonged firefight against eight enemies at once with waves of reinforcements coming. Carter somehow becomes instantly as competent as Jara and better than security team members and decades long soldiers in mass gunfights. Then there is just the random bad environmental interactions where you need to find the right things to scan with the tricorder. The first two or three being in the more logical position of being directly on and above the doors before they thought it would be funny to hang the next one in the middle of the ceiling and then to put the final one under a door and somehow attached to the partly opened door you crouch under that when shot opens the door on the other side of the room. QTE moments where you are given a long time to press a single direction or button with a big prompt on the screen, point and click or reach moments where the game basically just suddenly turns your mouse sensitivity down to nothing. It makes for a decent playthrough, though anytime it starts to do better than good or average in any one area something tends to happen to pull it back there. Recently removed from sale on all storefronts when the developer's license to distribute a Star Trek title having ended. Screenshots: https://bsky.app/profile/kennanw.bsky.social/post/3mnr3qyzans2b

The story is great but the gameplay is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

fantastic story! absolute shame that this game has been delisted. it's better than a majority of star trek episodes and movies.

I had a good time and as a long-time Star Trek fan I was very entertained! Some of the controls for certain actions were a little cumbersome and I had some odd stuttering in some places, but overall I thoroughly enjoyed the game. I liked the characters and writing except that I felt some questions went unanswered at the end. Perhaps that's intentional. It's unfortunate that the game is no longer for sale because I enjoyed it and I think other lovers of Star Trek would appreciate it too.

Star Trek: Resurgence is a good Telltales like game. Love Star Trek!

It may be a little janky, but this game has passion and soul clearly by the writing and references to past Trek episodes. Characters are all believable and hold different persepctives. Gameplay is mixed enough to enjoy but the story for me was fantastic, it is just like a long Star Trek film from the post-TNG era, I want more!

Amazing Game.

Я большой фанат интерактивного кинца, поэтому когда увидел на распродаже с 80% скидкой сюжетную игру по известной вселенной от бывших разработчиков Telltale, забрал не раздумывая. И знаете что ? Я не пожалел. Но давайте сразу к делу, технически эта игра - настоящая катастрофа. И всё же я поставлю ей палец вверх. Объясню почему. Сюжет, атмосфера, персонажи - всё это на высоте. Ты играешь за двух офицеров Звёздного флота, принимаешь решения, которые реально влияют на историю, общаешься с командой, расследуешь заговоры, летаешь на шаттле, участвуешь в перестрелках. Это тот самый Star Trek, по которому мы скучаем. Чувствуешь, что находишься внутри эпизода сериала, и это бесценно. Но теперь о грустном. Техническая часть просто ужасна. Во-первых, разрешение экрана. Точнее, его фактическое отсутствие как настройки. Игра просто запускается в каком-то своём внутреннем разрешении, которое на моём 4K-телевизоре выглядит мыльно и растянуто. Я минут двадцать копался в файлах конфигурации, пытался прописать параметры вручную, но так и не добился нормальной картинки. Во-вторых, частота кадров. Игра залочена на 30 FPS. Просто залочена, и всё. На мощном ПК с видеокартой, которая тянет киберпанк на ультрах, я получаю стабильные тридцать кадров, как будто вернулся в эпоху PlayStation 2. При этом картинка не настолько красивая, чтобы оправдать такое ограничение. Поначалу глаза устают, потом привыкаешь, но осадочек остаётся. В-третьих, подвисания. Они происходят в самые неожиданные моменты, во время диалогов, при смене камеры, при переходе между локациями. Иногда игра просто замирает на секунду-другую, как будто подгружает что-то, хотя всё уже должно быть загружено. В экшен-сценах это особенно раздражает, ты уже нажал кнопку, чтобы выстрелить, а игра думает, и в итоге тебя убивают. Или наоборот, сцена проигрывается с задержкой, и ты не понимаешь, что произошло. Ну и вишенка на торте - вылеты. За первые пять часов игра вылетела у меня трижды. Просто выкидывало на рабочий стол без каких-либо ошибок. И это при том, что автосохранение работает не всегда адекватно, пару раз приходилось переигрывать сцены по 10-15 минут. Один раз вылет случился почти в финале, это фиаско. Да, это позор, что в 2023 году игра выходит в таком состоянии. Да, разработчикам должно быть стыдно за отсутствие базовых настроек графики и вылеты. Но, я всё равно рекомендую эту игру. Потому что история того стоит. Потому что это настоящий Star Trek.