Bloober Team is making a Star Trek game, we discovered over the weekend. It will feature badass bajoran Ro Laren, and yes it's a horror game. It's a combination of genre, developer and licence that could only be the product of throwing darts at a board. Maybe a drunken game of Mad Libs.
Sometimes it's nice to be completely surprised. But sometimes that surprise is 'Bloober Team is making a Star Trek horror game'.
It's weird to be protective of brands, but I confess I did feel a genuine spark of annoyance at the news. Star Trek is fertile ground for games, but it's been underutilised, leaving us with only a meagre handful of good adaptations. My knee jerk response was "This is a huge waste." And I haven't really changed my mind.
I've never gotten on with Bloober Team's brand of horror, and I don't think horro...
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