It was not exciting, but, it sounds like the action will increase in intensity as the game progresses. The game presented me with waypoints and the shuttle drifted lazily toward them.

In the final scene of the demo, I piloted a slow-moving shuttle while two characters discussed a superior officer. However, I definitely managed to earn Spock’s disapproval, which admittedly did not feel good. Granted, these games have often presented the illusion of player influence when in fact things are largely on rails. The negotiation went sour, possibly thanks in part to my attempts to choose the most obnoxious dialogue option at every point, ensuring both sides would walk away offended. Martin said it was a pleasure to write for an iconic character during a previously unexplored time period. (While Dilithium is an established bit of Trek lore, the two races were invented for the game.) This scene showcased Spock, who’s being skillfully voiced by Piotr Michael in Resurgence. Next, I arrived on an alien planet to help oversee negotiations between two alien races, the Hotari and Alidians, over a Dilithium mining operation. When faced with the choice to be respectful or mouth off to their superior officer, I chose to mouth off, testing the limits of how un-Star Trek I could make the scene. In the first scene, Rydek and Diaz gossiped about their crewmates before reporting to their captain on the bridge. Three scenes from Star Trek: Resurgence that we played at Summer Games Fest last month differed significantly from one another, but they also shared the similarities that you’d expect from a Telltale game. Together, they will, according to Dramatic Labs, “unravel a sinister mystery involving two civilizations on the brink of war.” In Star Trek: Resurgence, which is set after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation, players assume the roles of two Starfleet members: first officer Jara Rydek and engineering ensign Carter Diaz.

“So while a huge piece of the franchise is people sitting around talking, debating heavy issues, there’s also plenty of action and other types of scenes: mystery, investigation, everything you think of as Star Trek, you’re going to get a piece of that with this game.” Image: Dramatic Labs “When we looked at what you get from a Star Trek experience, we wanted to deliver on every angle of that,” said Dan Martin, Star Trek: Resurgence’s narrative lead. In addition, they’ve updated their philosophies around familiar Telltale game tentpoles like dialogue, removing the “stay silent” option in order to force players to actively engage with the game. They credit Epic’s engine with letting them build bigger environments and set pieces with more direct action that don’t consist entirely of quick-time events. In a post-Telltale world, the former Telltale designers at Dramatic Labs have switched to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. But Telltale’s style lives on beyond Telltale itself, thanks to Dramatic Labs’ Star Trek : Resurgence.Īfter playing a version of Star Trek : Resurgence, where I sampled three separate scenes, I got the impression of a game that sticks closely to the Telltale formula, but differentiates itself, the developer says, with more action and less complacency from players. The studio was later revived with multiple in-development projects, including The Wolf Among Us 2 and a game based on The Expanse. Fans of Telltale Games’ style of story-focused games may have been disappointed when the studio closed back in 2018.

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