Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober Team are boldly going where few horror devs have gone before in Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a "psychological thriller" starring Ro Laren

Here's 1 I wasn't rather expecting: Silent Hill 2 remake and Cronos: The New Dawn developers Bloober Team are moving connected a Star Trek crippled successful collaboration with licence owners Paramount. As you mightiness imagine, fixed Bloober's pedigree, it doesn't look to beryllium a precise uplifting Star Trek game. It is not a Star Trek crippled successful which you would expect to person an Earl Grey teaparty connected the Holodeck, with Data playing the viola. Called Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, it's a "psychological thriller" acceptable connected an uncharted satellite that has go a spaceship graveyard. Something with tendrils lurks hereabouts, and it's trying to devour your mind.

In Shadow Frontier, you play nary little than Ro Laren, a Bajoran Federation serviceman (and later, Maquis turncoat) introduced by Star Trek: The Next Generation backmost successful the 90s, with archetypal histrion Michelle Forbes supplying dependable and question capture. She's travel to the satellite to reply a distress call, which is ne'er a large opening move. "As she explores the planet's corrupted aboveground and crosses paths with different survivors, she indispensable look twisted creatures, a hostile ecosystem, and an entity that seeks to envelop her assemblage and mind," explains the property release. The aesthetics slop Zdzisław Beksiński-flavoured effluence implicit what could beryllium Romulan oregon possibly Klingon interiors. Yeah, we're a agelong mode from the campy fixtures of the archetypal Star Trek series. Here's a trailer.

Bloober are making Shadow Frontier successful concern with Paramount Games Studio - a caller "unified" improvement cognition that encompasses Skydance Interactive and Skydance New Media, announced amid layoff-ridden restructuring arsenic Paramount implicit their $82 cardinal acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. In a statement, PGS caput of originative and accumulation Shawn Kittelsen enthuses that "we person afloat assurance successful Bloober’s quality to present a crippled that does justness to the Star Trek sanction portion bringing thing bold and caller to the beloved franchise".

Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno is likewise flush with ecstasy for things some bold and beloved. "As lifelong fans of subject fiction, Star Trek has ever held a peculiar spot successful our hearts,” helium says successful the release. "By combining that passionateness with what we bash best, horror, we’ve partnered with Paramount to make thing genuinely unique: a caller escapade acceptable successful a beloved universe, enriched with our ain signature furniture of dark, intelligence thriller. We’re genuinely excited astir this journey, and our anticipation is to grant the bequest of Star Trek successful a mode that feels some respectful yet refreshingly different.”

As a recovering Trekker, it's been years since I thought astir Ro Laren, but disconnected the apical of my head, her backstory would suit a "dark, intelligence thriller". She's a convict, defector, concealed cause - an implicit portion of work, basically. The Bajorans astatine ample are Star Trek's one-size-fits-all analogy for displaced and traumatised peoples passim history. Bloober person ne'er been peculiarly subtle successful however they picture trauma, and I confess, I tin ideate their attempts to plumb Star Trek's subconsciousness going precise badly. I am, however, intrigued by the transportation successful general.

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