Star Trek: Shadow Frontier Game Reveal Trailer Explores Trek's Darker Side | IGN Live 2026

IGN Live saw the breathtaking uncover of the upcoming crippled Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a mature, story-driven, action-adventure crippled that offers a antithetic and darker broadside of Star Trek than is usually the norm. As shown successful the uncover trailer, the crippled besides has a notable main quality successful the signifier of erstwhile Lieutenant Ro Laren, the fashionable Star Trek: The Next Generation quality played by Michelle Forbes. And yes, that's Forbes voicing Ro.

At IGN Live, Shawn Kittelsen (SVP, Head of Creative & Production, Paramount Games Studio) and Michał Gembicki (Head of Publishing, Bloober Team) discussed the genesis of the game, with Kittelsen describing Shadow Frontier arsenic "A caller single-player 3rd idiosyncratic enactment crippled from Bloober, the aforesaid squad down Silent High remake, starring Ro Laren."

Added Kittelsen, "I would picture the genre arsenic a intelligence thriller. If you similar a truly thrilling endurance adventure, this is the crippled for you. If you're a Star Trek instrumentality who wants to excavation into a quality similar Ro Laren, this is the crippled for you. "

Gembicki admitted that astatine Bloober -- besides known for games similar Layers of Fear, Observer, The Medium and Cronos: The New Dawn -- they similar acheronian stories, saying they felt that with Shadow Frontier, "A operation of fearfulness and acheronian storytelling mixed with specified arsenic astonishing IP arsenic Star Trek would beryllium conscionable specified a large match." Stressed Kittelsen, "This is not a Star Trek crippled similar you've ever played before."

The duo were cagey connected revealing excessively galore much details astir the crippled conscionable yet, but Gembicki did accidental that beyond playing arsenic Ro, Star Trek: Shadow Frontier kicks disconnected with Ro stranded connected an uncharted satellite that she's been lured to, which helium described arsenic "a spot of a graveyard for spacehships." This leads her "to person to fig retired what happened determination and wherefore is determination truthful overmuch wreckage "

Kittelsen and Gembicki noted you'd get to usage classical Trek cogwheel similar a phaser and tricorder arsenic you explore, and that determination decidedly would beryllium plentifulness of Easter eggs - galore of which tin already beryllium recovered successful the uncover trailer for those looking.

While they wouldn't accidental erstwhile precisely successful the timeline the crippled takes place, Kittelsen said "this communicative volition delve heavy into Ro Laren and her idiosyncratic conflicts and truly bering things out. That's wherever the acheronian comes from." Gembicki added determination was "a batch of dealing with the skeletons successful her closet and exploring the consequences of the decisions she made successful the past."

The crippled is intended to besides beryllium accessible to players who don't cognize Ro Laren, with Kittelsen stressing, "If this is your archetypal clip gathering Ro Laren, you volition locomotion distant loving her and privation to cognize more," and that helium felt Michelle Forbes gives a circuit de unit performance.

Kittelsen said determination was the anticipation of much large things for Trek moving forward, remarking, "If you've been waiting for a AAA Star Trek game, congratulations you're getting one! And hopefully this is the archetypal of many."

Star Trek: Shadow Frontier volition beryllium disposable connected Steam, PlayStation 5 (PS5), and Xbox Series X/S and Gembicki said to expect the crippled to beryllium released sometime successful 2027.

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