Faithful love letter to Voyager
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“it captures the athmosphere of Voyager perfectly”
Steam review · 19.1 h played ↗
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
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Mostly Positive · 79%Mostly Positive · 79%Gamexcite2026Space Sim · Interactive Fiction · Strategy
−30%$34.99$24.49
US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A faithful, nostalgic Voyager retelling built on resource management and dice-roll away missions. Skip it if you're not a Voyager fan or hate heavy RNG, thin combat and day-one DLC.
Great for
Voyager fans who enjoy FTL/XCOM-style ship management, what-if story choices and punishing dice rolls
Main risk
Heavy RNG and tight resources can wreck a run, and the shallow, on-rails game feels overpriced outside fandom.
What changed in the last 30 days
54 recent reviews
Recent negatives point to a punishing RNG spiral, balance problems (including with the new Q content), a Sector 5 difficulty spike and DLC monetization. Likelihood moderate.
54 recent reviews
What players love
Meaningful what-if choices and replayability
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“You can radically diverge from Janeway’s decisions, keep Tuvix, alter major outcomes, and reshape the journey entirely depending on your rolls.”
Steam review · 14 h played ↗
Engaging ship building and resource management
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Where's the gameplay? It's in the choices. Not just picking option A or B in a dialogue tree, but what rooms will you build, what research will you prioritise.”
Steam review · 20.8 h played ↗
Tough, tense difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“hard mode is wonderfully stressful, and the threat of losing an away team at any moment does a very good job of making me cling onto every character i have”
Steam review · 59.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Linear, visual-novel feel with little real impact
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“It's basically a glorified visual novel.”
Steam review · 25 h played ↗
Punishing, unfair-feeling RNG
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“having 90% success chances (multiple times) but yet fail every single one”
Steam review · 13 h played ↗
Shallow, repetitive combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“it's flying around in circles for 5 minutes waiting for the enemy to come in range”
Steam review · 145.4 h played ↗
Dated graphics and almost no voice acting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The voice acting is minimal, once again just in set pieces at the chapter intros.”
Steam review · 24.1 h played ↗
Save system: no manual save or save on exit
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The game has no manual save function. So if you need to leave the game for any reason, be prepared to lose progress.”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗
Day-one DLC and expensive DLC/season pass
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Half of year in and already 3 DLCs and 1 Season Pass, basically doubling the price of a game that wasn't that great to start with”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support11 GB
Minimum
OSWIn 11 64 Bit
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i5-8500
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
Storage11 GB available space
Recommended
OSWIn 11 64 Bit
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Intel Core i5-14600K
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Storage11 GB available space
OSWIn 11 64 Bit
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i5-8500
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
Storage11 GB available space
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