10 Best Star Trek Games of 2026

Star Trek Online is the top pick because it gives fans the most Star Trek for the lowest price: nothing. Cryptic Studios sets the game more than a century after Strange New Worlds and thirty years after Nemesis, with the Romulan Empire fractured and the Federation and Klingons at war again. The Steam page lists more than 160 episodes across several story arcs, four playable factions including the Dominion, hundreds of ships and over 40 Star Trek characters played by their original actors, such as Spock, Janeway, Worf and Tilly. You fight in space and lead away teams on the ground, and you can go from Ensign to Fleet Admiral without paying. The trade-offs are typical for an online game: it needs a constant broadband connection, it sells optional in-game items, and Steam lists Windows only. 79% of 17,006 English Steam reviews are positive, and 85% of recent reviews were positive when we checked.

Star Trek: Bridge Commander ranks second because no other game here puts you on a Star Trek bridge as directly. GOG's page describes a first-person view of the bridge where 3D crew members call out the ship's status and wait for your response, and you direct maneuvers, give orders and manage individual stations. Missions cover combat, exploration, stealth and search and rescue, and ships take real-time damage when they collide or trade fire. D.C. Fontana, who wrote 10 episodes of the original series and 4 of The Next Generation, contributed as script writer, editor and consultant. The game dates from 2002, so its visuals are old, and GOG lists only a Windows build. GOG showed us prices in a non-USD currency from our location, so we mark the US price as pending; check GOG for the current price.

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary is the best way to play the original series. Interplay frames each of its eight missions as an episode of an imagined fourth season of the show, voiced by the original actors. You lead away teams with Kirk, Bones, Spock and the occasional expendable red shirt, and solve problems with tricorders, phasers, communicators and teleporters. On the bridge you order Sulu to raise shields and ask Scotty for more power during space battles, backed by the show's sound effects and an original score. It runs on almost any Windows PC, needing 512 MB of RAM, and 90% of 150 Steam reviews are positive. The catch is length: eight missions go quickly, and the space combat sections are the part some players find hardest.

Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force is the action pick. GOG describes a first-person shooter built on the Quake III Arena engine, in which you join Voyager's elite Hazard Team after the ship is pulled into a region full of scavenging aliens, then board a Borg Cube and derelict vessels. The page lists 40 single-player missions, 16 multiplayer arenas with Free-for-All, Capture the Flag and Team play, and nine weapons with two firing modes each. Squadmates are driven by the Icarus AI, an addition to the Quake III engine for team interaction, and the GOG release includes the Elite Force Expansion Pack. It is a 2000 game with a Windows-only GOG build. Our location showed a non-USD price on GOG, so the US price is pending.

Star Trek: Judgment Rites continues the five-year mission from 25th Anniversary with eight more original point-and-click missions in a true episodic format. The Steam page promises the cast members and sound effects from the original series, and a mystery that runs across the episodes, including a World War I triplane at Warp 9 and life signs on a dead planet. Like its predecessor it needs only a 1.8 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. 92% of its 56 Steam reviews are positive, the best share among the games here, though the sample is small. It costs $19.99 on Steam in the US. Start with 25th Anniversary, since a returning villain links the two games.

Star Trek: Armada II is the pick for fans of classic real-time strategy. GOG describes longer campaigns than the first Armada, more races and 3D battles in which the Borg return with a new weapon while Species 8472 floods into Federation space through a spatial rift. You control over 80 unique ships with up to 16 per fleet, and switch between an overhead strategic view and a tactical view in the middle of the fight. Weapons do facing-based damage, so formation matters. Battles range from the Alpha Quadrant to Borg territory and fluidic space, and multiplayer runs over TCP/IP LAN. The game is from 2001 and GOG lists Windows only. GOG showed us a non-USD price, so the US price is pending.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is the strongest new Star Trek game. Gamexcite and Daedalic Entertainment built a story-driven survival strategy game around Voyager's trip home: you repair and rebuild the ship room by room, secure life support and energy, choose what to research, and decide whether to adopt Borg technology the show's crew refused. Rogue-like elements change each run, and named characters can die if you choose badly. Away teams are built from crew skills, ship combat lets you target enemy systems, and a Q Trials mode adds a roguelite challenge. 78% of 3,212 English Steam reviews are positive. It is also the most demanding and most expensive pick: $34.99, with a minimum of 16 GB of RAM, a GTX 1060 and Windows 11.

Star Trek Fleet Command is the pick for fans who play on a phone. Scopely describes an online open world strategy game in which you command a starbase, recruit officers such as James T. Kirk, Spock and Nero, and build a fleet with ships like the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Romulan Warbird and the Klingon Bird of Prey, as Federation, Klingon and Romulan forces fight over the Alpha and Beta quadrants. The story is set in the Kelvin Timeline of the recent films. It is free on the App Store and Google Play and averages 4.3 stars from about 68,000 App Store ratings. The trade-off is monetization: the US App Store lists in-app purchases from $4.99 up to $99.99, and progress depends on an online connection.

Star Trek: Starfleet Command Gold Edition is the deepest ship combat game here. You pick one of six powers, the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Hydrans, Gorn or Lyrans, and fly ships from four classes and over 50 3D hull designs. A 30-year campaign takes you from Lieutenant Commander of a frigate to Rear Admiral in charge of a task force, and display panels give you control of sensors, weapons, shields, transporters, marines, mines, engineering and energy. Multiplayer includes Pass the Tribble and a cooperative Starbase Assault for up to six players. It costs $19.99 on Steam in the US, but only 60% of 212 Steam reviews are positive, the second-lowest share here, and its many system panels take time to learn.

Star Trek: Infinite is the only grand strategy game here and it ranks last on reviews. Paradox Interactive and Nimble Giant built it on the core systems of Stellaris, simplified for Star Trek. You lead the Federation, Klingon Empire, Romulan Star Empire or Cardassian Union and win through diplomacy, espionage or war, recruiting characters such as Picard, Janeway, Sisko, Data, Gowron and Garak. Ships include Intrepid and Defiant classes, Galor-class vessels and Negh'Var battleships, and the Enterprise-D can be unlocked through the story system. It runs on Windows and macOS and supports online PvP. Only 39% of 2,351 English Steam reviews are positive, though, and at $29.99 with 3 DLC it is weak value for the price.