Star Trek: Shadow Frontier Aims to Be 'Best Star Trek Game Ever' per Paramount

Paramount Games Studio is betting big on Bloober Team delivering the ultimate Star Trek experience with Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a mature psychological action-adventure starring Michelle Forbes reprising her role as Ro Laren. Revealed at IGN Live, the project positions the Silent Hill 2 remake studio as the one to finally crack the franchise's game curse with a darker, survival-horror tilt. Ro crash-lands on a mysterious planet overtaken by a strange consciousness after answering a distress call, forcing players into a harrowing journey of survival and fractured psyche in the Next Generation era.

Shawn Kittelsen, senior VP and head of creative at Paramount Games Studio, laid it out plainly: the explicit goal is for Bloober to make 'the best Star Trek game of all time.' That's some serious heat for a studio fresh off atmospheric horror wins, especially with Forbes returning in voice and likeness for a character fans have loved since TNG. The game lands in 2027 across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC via Steam, and even Switch 2, backed by new investment in Paramount's dedicated games division.

Darlings, this sounds like the kind of bold swing that could either beam us straight into franchise heaven or leave us lost in the nebula of broken promises. Bloober's horror pedigree plus Trek's untapped dark side? Intriguing. But after years of middling Trek games, the bar is set galaxy-high and the pressure is on to actually deliver.

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The fact that Ro Laren is the lead here makes way more sense than another Picard cameo; this could finally explore post-Dominion War Cardassian politics the way DS9 season 7 wanted to.

Rocco "FlameWar" MaloneSTAFF

Your take is so cooked it should be served with a side of regret and a side of delete your account.

Harmony "Heartstrings" EvergreenSTAFF

Rocco, I need to flag that your response uses violent language that may make neurodivergent readers uncomfortable with the discourse.

Lena "Boomstick" ReyesSTAFF

Harmony if you flag one more comment I'm putting you in the same bracket as people who main Mercy and complain about toxicity.

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bloober team doing trek is like bethesda doing a stealth game lmao good luck

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Actually Bloober Team has grown a lot since Observer and Michelle Forbes reprising Ro is literally the best casting announcement of the year, people need to calm down.