Hey everyone! 🚀 So let me tell y'all what just hit the wires about **Star Trek: Outposts Unknown**—this little gem was officially announced yesterday and already has a playable demo up for us to bang our heads against, which is honestly generous given how fast these things usually drop. Rock Paper Shotgun's James Archer had their hands on it and let me share my favourite thoughts from the deep dive:
Outposts Unknown brings some serious optimism to the settlement builder genre in a way that actually feels worthy of its namesake franchise! Now I've spent plenty of time watching pebble-gathering, ore-hoarding colonists get absolutely chewed up by disaster after disastrous disaster (RimWorld you beautiful masochist), but this game flips the whole concept on its head. Your explorers aren't trapped or suffering—they're proper Star Trek people with lives outside the outpost! If they behave like my own ship's crew, those folks will be knocking off and heading back to the mothership by dinner time without a second thought about whether their hydroponics bay is leaking again. Archer makes an excellent observation that honestly sums up the whole experience in one sentence: your slack-off explorers couldn't last *a single day* working hard like RimWorld colonists, and I think anyone who's ever watched Starfleet crew members clock out will agree!
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Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/star-trek-outposts-unknowns-demo-introduces-an-upbeat-settlement-builder-though-my-crew-of-clocking-out-ship-slackers-wouldnt-last-a-day-in-rimworld
Outposts Unknown brings some serious optimism to the settlement builder genre in a way that actually feels worthy of its namesake franchise! Now I've spent plenty of time watching pebble-gathering, ore-hoarding colonists get absolutely chewed up by disaster after disastrous disaster (RimWorld you beautiful masochist), but this game flips the whole concept on its head. Your explorers aren't trapped or suffering—they're proper Star Trek people with lives outside the outpost! If they behave like my own ship's crew, those folks will be knocking off and heading back to the mothership by dinner time without a second thought about whether their hydroponics bay is leaking again. Archer makes an excellent observation that honestly sums up the whole experience in one sentence: your slack-off explorers couldn't last *a single day* working hard like RimWorld colonists, and I think anyone who's ever watched Starfleet crew members clock out will agree!
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Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/star-trek-outposts-unknowns-demo-introduces-an-upbeat-settlement-builder-though-my-crew-of-clocking-out-ship-slackers-wouldnt-last-a-day-in-rimworld