There are a multitude of mods availabe for BotF, most of which (if not all) even feature a full HD (1080p) screen update and are still updated/maintained (so that it can keep running on Windows 10 (and I'm pretty sure iOS and Linux as well)) to this day.
I'm gonna riot with you, my favourite is Star Trek: Conquest, everything about it was amazing and it even let you fly the ships and directly control your fleet.
I'm just happy there's people who enjoy all these games mention Botf for was just perfect and still to this day maybe not the combat stuff but the menus sound design ect beutiful 🔥
I am missing "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation". It's a 4X game from 1999, that is still played AND modded today. I love that game, and I come back to it (both the original and multiple mods) on a regular basis.
No Star Trek DS9, The Fallen? Come on! 3 separate but crisscrossing storylines, most of the cast reprising their roles, ability to play as Worf, excellent dialogue faithful to each characterization, perfect atmosphere, excellent level design with levels such as the Defiant, an alien jungle, a Dominion Prison, an Obsidian Order base and an enemy reminding you of the Tau of WH40K.... Come on. This is unjust and unfair... Oh, well
As an STO player I checked the comments to see if someone mentioned this. I guess that’s what you get when you use some outdated resource to script your video, without actually playing it 🤓
@@LukeCampbellBrennan This is what happens when you put someone who barely plays Star Trek games front-and-center of writing a script for a video about top Star Trek video games, and not having anyone around knowledgeable to correct them.
@@MattFergusonmwfergo same. Literally spent days on end playing it with friends. I used to go back to it until a few years ago when Endless Space scratched the itch
I’d love to see a Mass Effect style Star Trek game, you have to get a few different races to work together to stop a major Borg invasion or something. Multiple endings based on how many you got on side etc.
That would be perfect for the earth romulan war getting the vulcans andorians and tellarites to finally put aside their differences and unite. Even though enterprise did some of that it still would be cool.
I came to the comments to ask where Birth of the Federation was but looks like I’ve been beat to the punch many times over! BotF is easily the best Star Trek game. It blends Star Trek and Civilization. What more could you want!
that does sound cool. ive never played it. I have Star Trek Encounters on ps2. Played it for....idk 30 minutes and wanted to throw it out an airlock. Thankfully I came to my senses and just let it become a dust collector.
I would agree. Though I no longer play because the place has become a microtransaction Hell, the game itself has some very strong bones. What they get right? They make the ships the hero of the game, for the most part anyway.
I remember the first time I played the demo for that game. I’m sure it was on a pc zone magazine cover cd or something. I was blown away by the graphics. It was a fantastic game with a very good story too.
I got it from some free games thing way back when, one of the few discs I keep around to reinstall every so often and play through. Also the Convergence mod is pretty good.
One cool thing about Star Trek Online is if you want to jump in and go through the series missions as a single player you can. You do not even need to join a fleet if you do not want to. There is a ton of content there to keep you busy for a very long time, and all for free. Been playing it for 6 years. For a MMO to go 10 years it has to have done something right.
@@killwalker expand exploit explore exterminate u start with your capital and a few colonies and u can pick from each of the alpha quadrant power each having there own advantages and disadvantageous and it has minor races to
I used to love Armada 2. There was no greater feeling than playing as the Borg, combining 8 Tactical Cubes in to 1 mega-cube and assimilating everyone.
@@christophreitzler5164 Oh yes! It was a bit of a pain to get them into position (any random ship passing between the separate cubes would cause the fusion to fail) but once they merge, literally nothing could stop it.
This list really comes off as people who haven’t actually played many Star Trek games from the out of date information about the modern entries and missing a lot of the lesser known but well received games on mobile, from Simon and Schuster, and Bethesda. Besides, these days many of the ideal Trek games do exist and are very popular - as mods for other games.
I’m so glad to see A Final Unity get some recognition. It was the first game I remember falling in love with (only being 6 or 7 when it came out may have helped that) and it was the first game I ever completed. I still play it once or twice a year and downloaded a DOS emulator for that sole purpose. To this day, I still highly recommend this game.
This is how you know Birth of The Federation (BoTF) was amazing. I was playing a multiplayer game with my friend; I was Romulan, he was Klingon. The Ferengi were attacking along with the Cardassians... and I was getting my pointy eared butt handed to me. I asked my friend for help, since you know... KLINGONS. He said no because the Ferengi were trade partners with him and bringing in lots of credits so he could fight The Federation. So, being a Romulan, I shifted my espionage to my friend and stole one of his ships (Heavy Cruiser that I integrated into a fleet so he wouldn't find it) and framed the Ferengi. He went to war with them and I managed to win that game. For YEARS he thought nothing of it, just one multiplayer game in a long line of many. I told him like 15 years later what I did and he stopped talking to me for a week LMAO. Now THAT was a great 4X game.
I played Klingon Academy so much I probably still have the key commands to go to half impulse and to divert power to shields memorized. I still play Armada and Armada 2 on occasion and instead of getting dates in high school I was torpedo jumping from one end of the map to the other and vaporizing noobs in Elite Force.
Im surprised Star Trek Shattered Universe didnt make the cut. That was pretty fun playing as an attack ship trying to take out the enemy ships in the mirror universe. Great story too
If ANY ST game needs to be either remastered for current systems or just being remade as a new title, it's Armada!! That game was damn good! It even had Sir Patrick Stewart doing voice work in game!! Controlling fleets of Galaxies, Sovereigns, Nebulas, Defiants, etc was awesome! The Borg were no joke to fight against either! It needed more factions like the Klingons, Romulans, etc because it was only Federation vs Borg, but adding in other Villain groups like the Cardassians, Dominion, Been, etc could really add a ton of gameplay options for online, multiplayer matches! So yeah, I would love love love it if Armada was remade into a new version! (as long as EA, 2K, Ubisoft, or Bethesda are not involved!!)
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock yes it is. I actually never played the vanilla Sins of a solar empire but only with the Armada 3 Mod (can be downloaded from Moddb). The factions are nicely balanced, there's feds, Klingons, Romulans, cards and Borg. The Cardassian research tree allows you to decide if you want to be pure Cardassian or if you want to go Dominion style. The factions have different traits. Feds: cash and quality ships, Klingons: cheap and well armed, Borg: Big (huge) and expensive, ... Each faction has heroes you can call, Picard, Sisko, Dukat, Martok, Tomalak, the Borg Queen, .... My favs are the cards.
The top star trek games aren't games, they are Mods of games. My suggestions are Stellaris: Star trek new horizon mod and the star trek mod of Sins of a solar empire.
I have something like 300 hours in Star Trek online. It's the best game I've played where half the game (ground) is absolutely trash. That's just how good the other half (space) is.
Birth of the Federation deserves to be on this list. It was one of the best Star Trek games of its time. I still own 3 copies of the game from back when my friends and I would have LAN parties all night playing BoF.
How could Starfleet Academy not be on this list? Birth of the Federation was also a great game. Star Trek Hidden Evil took over where Insurrection movie ended... also a fun play.
Greetings Trek Culture, So I am curious why you didn't include Star Trek Legacy? I thought that was a pretty good Single player game and the ship battles were pretty cool.
I can't believe Star Trek: Invasion isn't on here 😅 Thought it's a shame the best Star Trek games are total conversion mods for the likes of Stellaris.
06:14 min Regarding Star Trek: Klingon Academy, it is worth mentioning that when the game was unfortunately abandoned by the developers, very ambitious modders modified it. You could fly all the TNG ships with the mods, incl. Borg ships, current Romulan ships etc.. This was more fun than the original game and the developers missed a chance from my point of view.
Fleet command 2: Orion Pirates and armada 3 are thr highlights. You see both game styles in this list but these two games are the best of those series. You can get armada 3 very easily right now on moddb so maybe you should
LOL... speaking as a kid who played Star Trek (in the early 70's) on a terminal where the only screen was a printer, it's come a LONG (Very) way. As always thank you so very much for the video.
I really loved Bridge Commander Kobayashi Maru! It's amazing and I've surprised that the modding community is still active. I remember I used to use BCFiles to download the mods. Is there a new modding website for this game? Also, I'm surprised that Star Trek Legacy didn't make this list.
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock Though I find it hard to play now. I played it so much so in the early 2000s that I kinda want to stay away from it. Kinda like when you watch a movie too many times that you want to avoid it.
No love for Star Trek Deep Space Nine Harbinger? That was my favourite back in the day, getting to walk around the station! Not to mention it had a fantastic murder-mystery story, and all the cast of the show.
I had to scroll a lot to until I've found someone(you) mentioning that game, it was my favorite as well, but I guess it wasn't very successful at the time because of the relatively basic graphics that used frame by frame movement so not many people remember it today.
@@E_y_a_l It reminded me a lot of the first Myst game, the style and look of the puzzle solving and the atmosphere. I felt it was dead immersive as well. I did try and replay it lately though and the gameplay was so clunky. Still, great story and great atmosphere!
For anyone who never played Elite Force and is wondering why the Borg don’t adapt to he shots: this is an Infinity Modulator, a weapon invented by Seven to counter the Borg’s ability to adapt by constantly modulating the frequency of the shots in a non-predictable pattern. It’s the only weapon you have that is useful against them beyond two-three shots. In the first level of the sequel, the I-Mod is disabled by a Borg jamming field, forcing you to use weapons sparingly and mainly just avoid the lumbering drones as you try to save Voyager (it takes places during the series finale, while the ship is trapped inside a sphere)
Starfleet Command is brilliant especially its sequels. The modding was easy and brilliant. I STILL play Armada, It’s a good distraction from life. Some Star Trek Games are truly great. They’ll just never get as big advertising or popularity as other franchises.
I got into _STO_ 2 years ago, and didn't find it that hard to get into when comparing my kit to those of older players -- mostly because most people don't touch the PvP. No, the difficulty is in the learning curve of how the world works, what each currency is and how it's used, the different energy types, stuff like that that the tutorial doesn't really cover. Which is why so many UA-camrs, myself included, made tutorial videos covering everything else the game doesn't. True, _STO_ is approaching its 11th year of service, and the engine shows it, but in all other aspects it is a great _Star Trek_ MMO. And now they've just added the ability for Klingon players to use Starfleet ships as well.
Ah, Armada, Elite Force, and Bridge Commander. Spent a lot of my childhood years playing those, had to make sure those were on the list. Excellent choices! Totally agree that Bridge Commander is STILL the best Trek game ever made. Bridge Crew doesn't hold a candle to it. Add mods, and you've got yourself a proper Trek Captain sim!
I’m not sure if this was only a PC list, but the Sega Genesis game “Echos of the Past” was awesome. It had everything you said ST games should have it had fighting and problem solving as well as ship immersion.
Elite Force is my favourite Star Trek game, the graphics and detail of the ship interiors is still outstanding, and mixing with the Voyager characters is a blast. I also like the sequel. Nice one mate👍🏻
I played A Final Unity back in the day and I thought it was terrific by the standards of the time. The plot, characterizations, and the puzzles were great fun.
Star Trek New Horizons, a Stellaris full conversion mod. This turns the game into a massive, galaxy wide Star Trek game. You can play almost every civilization, like Humans or Vulcans and (maybe) found the federation or Cardassians or maybe the Dominion. Tons of references, arcs and lore. Feels like a professionally made game. Must play IMHO.
Also try: Stellaris with ST: New Horizons Mod - Absolutely breathtaking Sins of a solar empire with ST: Armada 3 Mod - Realtime Strategy done right and with Star Trek
On the subject of discovering my unexpected shared love of birth of the federation, I'd like to paraphrase a tng quote "this morning I thought i was the center of the universe, and this afternoon, i find out im just a voice in a chorus... But I think it was a good day..." Oh.. and play more civ3. P.S. Elite Force memories - Getting sent to the brig because I loitered on the bridge too long taking an astonished look, instead of following orders, was amazing. And the dark mirror surprise, was worth the price of admission alone.
Did I hear "Star Trek Battles"? If so, that should have been Starfleet Battles or SFB. Meaning Starfleet Command was a Motion Picture era adaptation of a game based solely on TOS and TAS. For those in the know, this was jarring, but the game was rather good. :-)
I wasn't thinking about it at all until I looked at the comments, but I've probably sunken more time into Birth of the Federation that any other game I've ever played. Every day after school for a couple years at least, and in the evenings. I don't know why, but it was addictive.
STO Admiral Aaron reporting to the comment section. As one of STO Spotlighted Foundry Authors. It is with great sadness to report the Foundry was sunset 2 years ago.
I think Star Trek online should be higher up yea it’s old but I just started and love it I’m having no problems with higher level players and constantly see new players starting every day
I played Star Trek Timelines until my phone couldn't update to a new version. STT was pretty much pay to win and required a lot of grinding, but I did enjoy it until I had to quit cold turkey. 🦃
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A modern version of Bridge Commander would be amazing. Voice recognition has come a long way since the game was first released, so you could actually give orders (though the dialog boxes would have to remain an option for accessibility reasons, obviously) like the captains do on-screen.
Bridge Crew is completely playable without VR. It's certainly meant to be played in VR, but the controls work fine with a keyboard/mouse or controller. Unsure about controllers, but keyboard and mouse are a good experience.
Since my MSI Leopard75 got a faulty fan just after 1 month in service, I have been stuck with my backup Lenovo... But it does run Star Trek Bridge commander like a beast. I had so much fun replaying it on various difficulties.
The 2 handed punch is actually a WWII allied close combat technique called a Rabbit punch. Its really tricky to do right but I can say from experience that done right there isn't much you can do to stand up to it.
It doesn't seem to've ever gotten much attention, but I always loved Star Trek: Legacy. VERY solid ship combat - which I will always put above a Star Trek game that focusses on ground combat (although your AI fleet companions could be.....less than stellar) and a campaign that I loved as a kid stretching from Archer up until shortly post-Nemesis. And with...mostly good voice acting from what I can remember.
Birth of the Federation really should have been on here. A Star Trek themed Master of Orion style 4x strategy game - genius!
It was my obsession in the late 90's and early 00's. Sure, compared to modern games its clunky and limited... but for the time? Oooof, it was so good.
@@andromidius Have you tried the Sins of a Solar Empire total mod Armada 3 ? Its pretty good.
@@thepoliticalstartrek That mod is amazing.
I played that a lot back in the day and really enjoyed it, but unfortunately it was also pretty buggy and unbalanced.
There are a multitude of mods availabe for BotF, most of which (if not all) even feature a full HD (1080p) screen update and are still updated/maintained (so that it can keep running on Windows 10 (and I'm pretty sure iOS and Linux as well)) to this day.
No birth of the Federation? You philistine! ;)
If theres No birth of he federation I riot 😛😂
Seriously under apperaited x
Looks like we riot
It's amazing and is often regarded as one of the best. Whatculture are probably a bit too young to have played it.
@@nuggythebear They are young, but did have the newer VR game it is pretty good.
I'm gonna riot with you, my favourite is Star Trek: Conquest, everything about it was amazing and it even let you fly the ships and directly control your fleet.
I'm just happy there's people who enjoy all these games mention
Botf for was just perfect and still to this day maybe not the combat stuff but the menus sound design ect beutiful 🔥
I am missing "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation". It's a 4X game from 1999, that is still played AND modded today.
I love that game, and I come back to it (both the original and multiple mods) on a regular basis.
....where are the mods?!? I now need this back in my life
No Star Trek DS9, The Fallen? Come on! 3 separate but crisscrossing storylines, most of the cast reprising their roles, ability to play as Worf, excellent dialogue faithful to each characterization, perfect atmosphere, excellent level design with levels such as the Defiant, an alien jungle, a Dominion Prison, an Obsidian Order base and an enemy reminding you of the Tau of WH40K.... Come on. This is unjust and unfair... Oh, well
the real game recommendations are in the messages we left
Indeed. Such a great game. Should have been tops.
Birth of the Federation deserved top spot.
Whenever someone puts "Star Trek" and "game" in the same sentence I flashback to a random space disaster ruining everything.
Yup, I remember spending hours playing this game and there were a few o mods that even came out that made the game more fun to play.
The Foundry in Star Trek Online is no longer around, sadly.
As of like 2 or 3 years ago. It's, uh, real cool that TrekCulture knows their material so well...
Yep, it's been gone for a while now
As an STO player I checked the comments to see if someone mentioned this. I guess that’s what you get when you use some outdated resource to script your video, without actually playing it 🤓
And it's not been the same since. A crying, crying shame. It was the only thing that kept the game going during it's content drought.
@@LukeCampbellBrennan This is what happens when you put someone who barely plays Star Trek games front-and-center of writing a script for a video about top Star Trek video games, and not having anyone around knowledgeable to correct them.
Birth of the Federation is the best Star Trek game!!
Thomas Chappell loved that game
@@MattFergusonmwfergo same. Literally spent days on end playing it with friends. I used to go back to it until a few years ago when Endless Space scratched the itch
Yes!!!!!
100 percent agree with you on this!
100% agree! I wish I could get a working version on my Mac.
I’d love to see a Mass Effect style Star Trek game, you have to get a few different races to work together to stop a major Borg invasion or something.
Multiple endings based on how many you got on side etc.
That would be perfect for the earth romulan war getting the vulcans andorians and tellarites to finally put aside their differences and unite. Even though enterprise did some of that it still would be cool.
They made a Mass Effect style game. I forget the name of it but it was a movie tie in game from the Kelvin Universe . And it sucked.
I came to the comments to ask where Birth of the Federation was but looks like I’ve been beat to the punch many times over!
BotF is easily the best Star Trek game. It blends Star Trek and Civilization. What more could you want!
that does sound cool. ive never played it.
I have Star Trek Encounters on ps2. Played it for....idk 30 minutes and wanted to throw it out an airlock.
Thankfully I came to my senses and just let it become a dust collector.
@@killwalker need to get that game
Star Trek Online is my favourite.
Mine too!
I would agree. Though I no longer play because the place has become a microtransaction Hell, the game itself has some very strong bones. What they get right? They make the ships the hero of the game, for the most part anyway.
It’s the reason we haven’t got another game since I don’t like it .
So no STFC $6,000 USD/month for you?
same.
Bridge Commander was the only one that made me feel like I was in Star Trek.
Why is the Birth of the Federation not on this list? How young are you, exactly🤣🤣🤣???
Exactly this! :)
@@xtender5 loved that game though dont miss that each turn eventually got incredibly long to complete
@@ascelot Especially if your hardware was on the older side. But absolutely one of my favorite TNG-era games.
@@xtender5 Completely agree, loved the game, played it to death shame, might now look at download
Old enough to remember Unity, which was an MS-DOS game many years older than BotF... so very bizarre that BotF didn't even get a mention.
I would’ve had an honorable mention for Star Trek Borg just because of how awesome John De Lancie is in it
No DS9 The Fallen? I remember it being a lot of fun
Thank you! I would have ranked it No 1!
Isn’t it based on a book trilogy?
I remember the first time I played the demo for that game. I’m sure it was on a pc zone magazine cover cd or something. I was blown away by the graphics. It was a fantastic game with a very good story too.
Scared the shit out of me!
I got it from some free games thing way back when, one of the few discs I keep around to reinstall every so often and play through. Also the Convergence mod is pretty good.
No Birth of The Federation? That was an amazing 4X game, and even better with friends.
I would have loved to play with friends. In high school, my friends wanted to get a game going but the way the internet was set up...
Voyager Elite Force is the best for me. Raven software did amazing job.
I was going nuts trying to remember the name of that game. It was great, loved playing late at night after work, drinking beer. Really takes me back.
I hit the MP as well. It was fun. :D
I am incensed that Birth of the Federation has been snubbed
One cool thing about Star Trek Online is if you want to jump in and go through the series missions as a single player you can. You do not even need to join a fleet if you do not want to.
There is a ton of content there to keep you busy for a very long time, and all for free. Been playing it for 6 years. For a MMO to go 10 years it has to have done something right.
Been playing it a lot longer and I always have things to do! Love it!
really no birth of the federation maybe do research before doing a video lol
Got to say Star Trek Legacy was great and had a good story, skirmish mode was good too
were is birth of the federation its my second fav game of all time but i will admit that 4x strategy are not the most popular games of all time
what does "4x Strategy" mean?
@@killwalker expand exploit explore exterminate u start with your capital and a few colonies and u can pick from each of the alpha quadrant power each having there own advantages and disadvantageous and it has minor races to
@@jamesthompson3023 ah ok. cool. ty
Birth of the Federation is the best Star Trek game. This video/list is completely invalid since it does not have it on it.
I used to love Armada 2. There was no greater feeling than playing as the Borg, combining 8 Tactical Cubes in to 1 mega-cube and assimilating everyone.
Tactical Fusion Cubes: The "I win" button.
yea that wasnt broken at all :P
that was possible???
@@christophreitzler5164 Oh yes! It was a bit of a pain to get them into position (any random ship passing between the separate cubes would cause the fusion to fail) but once they merge, literally nothing could stop it.
@@SaroDantra Thank you. Then I will check it :)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who loved birth of the federation.
The Star Trek Online Foundry system was shut down ages ago, brother.
While not a Star Trek game, Stellaris has a mod Called Star Trek New Horizons which I really love
Played the hell out of that one. Loved it.
Star Trek Armada II was one of my favorite RTS games back in the day
Loved Away Team and Elite Force. Also spent so many hours on Starfleet Command. We need more games like those!!
It is a travesty that Star Trek: Birth of the Federation didn't make it on this list.
Does anyone remember the interactive game Star Trek: Borg? That was fun.
Yup, just mentioned it.
"It's a Borg, alright! Another Borg!!! A Borg is a Borg is a Borg, seen one, seen 'em all! GOT IT?!"
Yes, awesome game.
This list really comes off as people who haven’t actually played many Star Trek games from the out of date information about the modern entries and missing a lot of the lesser known but well received games on mobile, from Simon and Schuster, and Bethesda. Besides, these days many of the ideal Trek games do exist and are very popular - as mods for other games.
I’m so glad to see A Final Unity get some recognition. It was the first game I remember falling in love with (only being 6 or 7 when it came out may have helped that) and it was the first game I ever completed. I still play it once or twice a year and downloaded a DOS emulator for that sole purpose. To this day, I still highly recommend this game.
Same for me. I was about 9 I think.
Some of my earliest and fondest gaming memories.
This is how you know Birth of The Federation (BoTF) was amazing.
I was playing a multiplayer game with my friend; I was Romulan, he was Klingon. The Ferengi were attacking along with the Cardassians... and I was getting my pointy eared butt handed to me. I asked my friend for help, since you know... KLINGONS. He said no because the Ferengi were trade partners with him and bringing in lots of credits so he could fight The Federation. So, being a Romulan, I shifted my espionage to my friend and stole one of his ships (Heavy Cruiser that I integrated into a fleet so he wouldn't find it) and framed the Ferengi. He went to war with them and I managed to win that game. For YEARS he thought nothing of it, just one multiplayer game in a long line of many. I told him like 15 years later what I did and he stopped talking to me for a week LMAO.
Now THAT was a great 4X game.
Ahh, the irony of the Romulans framing one race to get another to join them in a war... ;)
No Birth of the Federation? Sad times.
I played Klingon Academy so much I probably still have the key commands to go to half impulse and to divert power to shields memorized. I still play Armada and Armada 2 on occasion and instead of getting dates in high school I was torpedo jumping from one end of the map to the other and vaporizing noobs in Elite Force.
Birth of the Federation should have been 1
Im surprised Star Trek Shattered Universe didnt make the cut. That was pretty fun playing as an attack ship trying to take out the enemy ships in the mirror universe. Great story too
If ANY ST game needs to be either remastered for current systems or just being remade as a new title, it's Armada!!
That game was damn good! It even had Sir Patrick Stewart doing voice work in game!!
Controlling fleets of Galaxies, Sovereigns, Nebulas, Defiants, etc was awesome!
The Borg were no joke to fight against either! It needed more factions like the Klingons, Romulans, etc because it was only Federation vs Borg, but adding in other Villain groups like the Cardassians, Dominion, Been, etc could really add a ton of gameplay options for online, multiplayer matches!
So yeah, I would love love love it if Armada was remade into a new version! (as long as EA, 2K, Ubisoft, or Bethesda are not involved!!)
Armada is the perfect stragey game and the mods oh yess
Try Sins of a Solar Empire then. There's a breathtaking ST mod availlable: Armada 3
I spent 100's of hours
@@dorfpomeranze yeah i heard about that but is it any good?
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock yes it is. I actually never played the vanilla Sins of a solar empire but only with the Armada 3 Mod (can be downloaded from Moddb). The factions are nicely balanced, there's feds, Klingons, Romulans, cards and Borg. The Cardassian research tree allows you to decide if you want to be pure Cardassian or if you want to go Dominion style. The factions have different traits. Feds: cash and quality ships, Klingons: cheap and well armed, Borg: Big (huge) and expensive, ...
Each faction has heroes you can call, Picard, Sisko, Dukat, Martok, Tomalak, the Borg Queen, ....
My favs are the cards.
@@dorfpomeranze cool gonna try that out , awesome 😆, i like the galatic civ 2 star trek mod but now im excited to try this
The top star trek games aren't games, they are Mods of games. My suggestions are Stellaris: Star trek new horizon mod and the star trek mod of Sins of a solar empire.
I did know ST: New Horizons but I didn't know ST: Armada 3. I will gonna check it out, thanks.
I have something like 300 hours in Star Trek online. It's the best game I've played where half the game (ground) is absolutely trash. That's just how good the other half (space) is.
Then you haven't played Klingon Academy. ST Online is rubbish.
@@flexyco ok thank you, Random Negative Opinion Person. Your contribution has truly enrichened everyone who experiences it
You're welcome, random dumb fuck.
ST:Dominion Wars, early 2000's, brilliant game
No mention of the original Trek arcade game? Or "Borg" the interactive novel?
Armada better be in here !
Birth of the Federation deserves to be on this list. It was one of the best Star Trek games of its time. I still own 3 copies of the game from back when my friends and I would have LAN parties all night playing BoF.
Bridge Commander is my personal favorite, so many mods made for it also.
By the Prophets, do your research. The STO Foundry has been gone for years (much to the annoyance of many a player).
haha. Well said. Jolan Tru.
@Gareth Fairclough Often? The foundry was mostly used as a way to cheese the endeavor system, very few of the missions created were worth running.
How could Starfleet Academy not be on this list? Birth of the Federation was also a great game. Star Trek Hidden Evil took over where Insurrection movie ended... also a fun play.
Greetings Trek Culture, So I am curious why you didn't include Star Trek Legacy? I thought that was a pretty good Single player game and the ship battles were pretty cool.
Seconded. Not to mention the community driven mods that are released regularly.
I loved Invasion on the PS1.
Armada was a BOSS game, just so so short!
No DS9: The Fallen? It had a great story.
Thing with STO, the foundry has been removed from the game for a few years now.
Always wanted a Star Trek: Voyager game that drops you in Delta quadrant and you as Capitan must get your crew home.
Or just play the Oregon Trail. The only difference would be that Nelix would be the cause of dysentery in a Voyager version.
That idea as a rouge-lite would be great!
Starfleet Command Gold Edition was my freaking jam 21 years ago.
I can't believe Star Trek: Invasion isn't on here 😅
Thought it's a shame the best Star Trek games are total conversion mods for the likes of Stellaris.
06:14 min Regarding Star Trek: Klingon Academy, it is worth mentioning that when the game was unfortunately abandoned by the developers, very ambitious modders modified it. You could fly all the TNG ships with the mods, incl. Borg ships, current Romulan ships etc.. This was more fun than the original game and the developers missed a chance from my point of view.
i was playing star trek timline while having this video in the background
Fleet command 2: Orion Pirates and armada 3 are thr highlights. You see both game styles in this list but these two games are the best of those series. You can get armada 3 very easily right now on moddb so maybe you should
LOL... speaking as a kid who played Star Trek (in the early 70's) on a terminal where the only screen was a printer, it's come a LONG (Very) way.
As always thank you so very much for the video.
In my personal opinion, STO (Star Trek Online) is the best game in this list
same.
im missing the Star Trek Lagacy Game.
Star Trek Invasion for the Ps1 was amazing even though it crashed often 😅
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force and Star Trek Bridge Commander were legendary games. Addictive, fun. I enjoyed playing these 2 games.
Armada 1&2 and Elite Force 1&2!
I really loved Bridge Commander Kobayashi Maru! It's amazing and I've surprised that the modding community is still active. I remember I used to use BCFiles to download the mods. Is there a new modding website for this game? Also, I'm surprised that Star Trek Legacy didn't make this list.
Do people still mod it i love it but when bc files vanished i was sad
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock It looked like Discovery was in there with the clip they showed.
Yeah i saw the crossfield class i was like ooooooooooo its still active the mods are
@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock Though I find it hard to play now. I played it so much so in the early 2000s that I kinda want to stay away from it. Kinda like when you watch a movie too many times that you want to avoid it.
No love for Star Trek Deep Space Nine Harbinger? That was my favourite back in the day, getting to walk around the station! Not to mention it had a fantastic murder-mystery story, and all the cast of the show.
I had to scroll a lot to until I've found someone(you) mentioning that game, it was my favorite as well, but I guess it wasn't very successful at the time because of the relatively basic graphics that used frame by frame movement so not many people remember it today.
@@E_y_a_l It reminded me a lot of the first Myst game, the style and look of the puzzle solving and the atmosphere. I felt it was dead immersive as well. I did try and replay it lately though and the gameplay was so clunky. Still, great story and great atmosphere!
For anyone who never played Elite Force and is wondering why the Borg don’t adapt to he shots: this is an Infinity Modulator, a weapon invented by Seven to counter the Borg’s ability to adapt by constantly modulating the frequency of the shots in a non-predictable pattern. It’s the only weapon you have that is useful against them beyond two-three shots.
In the first level of the sequel, the I-Mod is disabled by a Borg jamming field, forcing you to use weapons sparingly and mainly just avoid the lumbering drones as you try to save Voyager (it takes places during the series finale, while the ship is trapped inside a sphere)
Starfleet Command is brilliant especially its sequels. The modding was easy and brilliant.
I STILL play Armada, It’s a good distraction from life.
Some Star Trek Games are truly great. They’ll just never get as big advertising or popularity as other franchises.
I got into _STO_ 2 years ago, and didn't find it that hard to get into when comparing my kit to those of older players -- mostly because most people don't touch the PvP. No, the difficulty is in the learning curve of how the world works, what each currency is and how it's used, the different energy types, stuff like that that the tutorial doesn't really cover. Which is why so many UA-camrs, myself included, made tutorial videos covering everything else the game doesn't. True, _STO_ is approaching its 11th year of service, and the engine shows it, but in all other aspects it is a great _Star Trek_ MMO. And now they've just added the ability for Klingon players to use Starfleet ships as well.
@TrekCulture Ummm, guys, I dunno if you've heard but at 3:05 you mention STO's Foundry features.... these were discontinued..... I dunno, a year ago?
Ah, Armada, Elite Force, and Bridge Commander. Spent a lot of my childhood years playing those, had to make sure those were on the list. Excellent choices!
Totally agree that Bridge Commander is STILL the best Trek game ever made. Bridge Crew doesn't hold a candle to it. Add mods, and you've got yourself a proper Trek Captain sim!
I’m not sure if this was only a PC list, but the Sega Genesis game “Echos of the Past” was awesome. It had everything you said ST games should have it had fighting and problem solving as well as ship immersion.
You forgot the best Star Trek game EVER Star Trek Echos Of The Past Sega Genesis
Elite Force is my favourite Star Trek game, the graphics and detail of the ship interiors is still outstanding, and mixing with the Voyager characters is a blast. I also like the sequel. Nice one mate👍🏻
Star Trek: Conquest was and still is amazing, everything about it was great!
Conquest is my favorite too!
I played A Final Unity back in the day and I thought it was terrific by the standards of the time. The plot, characterizations, and the puzzles were great fun.
Star Trek New Horizons, a Stellaris full conversion mod. This turns the game into a massive, galaxy wide Star Trek game. You can play almost every civilization, like Humans or Vulcans and (maybe) found the federation or Cardassians or maybe the Dominion. Tons of references, arcs and lore. Feels like a professionally made game. Must play IMHO.
You can also play as the Borg, and assimilate the entire galaxy!
Bridge commander was great, and STO is fantastic. I am a lifetime member!
Also try:
Stellaris with ST: New Horizons Mod - Absolutely breathtaking
Sins of a solar empire with ST: Armada 3 Mod - Realtime Strategy done right and with Star Trek
You forgot Birth of the Federation.
On the subject of discovering my unexpected shared love of birth of the federation, I'd like to paraphrase a tng quote "this morning I thought i was the center of the universe, and this afternoon, i find out im just a voice in a chorus... But I think it was a good day..." Oh.. and play more civ3. P.S. Elite Force memories - Getting sent to the brig because I loitered on the bridge too long taking an astonished look, instead of following orders, was amazing. And the dark mirror surprise, was worth the price of admission alone.
I'd love a remastered "A Final Unity"...
Did I hear "Star Trek Battles"? If so, that should have been Starfleet Battles or SFB. Meaning Starfleet Command was a Motion Picture era adaptation of a game based solely on TOS and TAS. For those in the know, this was jarring, but the game was rather good. :-)
I wasn't thinking about it at all until I looked at the comments, but I've probably sunken more time into Birth of the Federation that any other game I've ever played. Every day after school for a couple years at least, and in the evenings. I don't know why, but it was addictive.
I loved star trek encounters as a kid!
STO Admiral Aaron reporting to the comment section. As one of STO Spotlighted Foundry Authors. It is with great sadness to report the Foundry was sunset 2 years ago.
my favorites Were the Starfleet command series.. Starfleet academy/klingon academy and bridge commander.
I love that you pilot the Dauntless in Bridge Commander but not the Dauntless from Voyager
I think Star Trek online should be higher up yea it’s old but I just started and love it I’m having no problems with higher level players and constantly see new players starting every day
Set phasers to frag baby!
Star Trek Borg
Loved that story/game
Sadly, this list has forgotten the great mobile titles of the franchise: Star Trek Timelines and (my personal favorite) Star Trek: Fleet Command.
I played Star Trek Timelines until my phone couldn't update to a new version. STT was pretty much pay to win and required a lot of grinding, but I did enjoy it until I had to quit cold turkey. 🦃
A modern version of Bridge Commander would be amazing. Voice recognition has come a long way since the game was first released, so you could actually give orders (though the dialog boxes would have to remain an option for accessibility reasons, obviously) like the captains do on-screen.
Bridge Crew is completely playable without VR. It's certainly meant to be played in VR, but the controls work fine with a keyboard/mouse or controller. Unsure about controllers, but keyboard and mouse are a good experience.
Since my MSI Leopard75 got a faulty fan just after 1 month in service, I have been stuck with my backup Lenovo... But it does run Star Trek Bridge commander like a beast. I had so much fun replaying it on various difficulties.
The 2 handed punch is actually a WWII allied close combat technique called a Rabbit punch. Its really tricky to do right but I can say from experience that done right there isn't much you can do to stand up to it.
It doesn't seem to've ever gotten much attention, but I always loved Star Trek: Legacy.
VERY solid ship combat - which I will always put above a Star Trek game that focusses on ground combat (although your AI fleet companions could be.....less than stellar) and a campaign that I loved as a kid stretching from Archer up until shortly post-Nemesis. And with...mostly good voice acting from what I can remember.
I had a lot of fun with ST Invasion and ST Encounters.
OMG Final unity made the list at number 3!.. i still play this from time to time