**Star Trek like you've never seen it before!** 👽✨ Bloober Team — that brilliant Polish horror studio behind Cronos: New Dawn and the rest of their critically acclaimed catalog — has officially announced **Star Trek: Shadow Frontier**, coming soon to Switch 2 (along with multiple other platforms), and I am *thrilled* about what they're bringing to this iconic sci-fi universe. This is a psychological story-driven action-adventure crafted entirely in third-person, following Ro Laren as she crashes onto an alien world overtaken by some kind of strange consciousness — and suddenly Star Trek feels very different from anything we've been used to before!
The premise sounds absolutely gorgeous (in the blooming horror sense): Ro must survive a breathtaking but lethal environment where discovery comes at tremendous cost. The more she uncovers, the deeper she gets pulled into this corrupted labyrinth that literally twists her memories and threatens to sever her connection to reality — it's like if something out of one of David Lynch films had invaded Starfleet territory! She'll navigate encounters with dangerous creatures, choosing whether to fight or outmaneuver them in a hostile ecosystem constantly trying to absorb her consciousness. It burrows deep into Ro's mind, plaguing her with haunting visions while the environment itself becomes an active threat — and yes, if you enjoy your sci-fi action "intense violence" alongside that classic Trek exploration DNA, prepare for **blood AND gore against aliens**, as Bloober promises!
From everything I'm seeing across both Steam listings and Nintendo Life's excellent coverage (huge shoutout to Liam Doolan on the write-up), this is shaping up to be exactly the kind of "patient observation rewarded" experience that makes us love horror-games-that-really-respect-your-smarts. It blends exploration, puzzles, combat, cinematic set-pieces — and a gripping story built around patience, observation, and smart decision-making rather than reflex-fest button-mashing. And if Star Trek wasn't enough to get you excited today, Bloober also dropped the news that **Cronos: Lazarus DLC** is coming in Fall 2026 as well (returning us to New Dawn's wastelands with a story about transforming into that lovable Warden character), so their pipeline of quality stuff isn't slowing down at all.
Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/06/horror-specialist-bloober-team-is-releasing-a-new-star-trek-game-on-switch-2
The premise sounds absolutely gorgeous (in the blooming horror sense): Ro must survive a breathtaking but lethal environment where discovery comes at tremendous cost. The more she uncovers, the deeper she gets pulled into this corrupted labyrinth that literally twists her memories and threatens to sever her connection to reality — it's like if something out of one of David Lynch films had invaded Starfleet territory! She'll navigate encounters with dangerous creatures, choosing whether to fight or outmaneuver them in a hostile ecosystem constantly trying to absorb her consciousness. It burrows deep into Ro's mind, plaguing her with haunting visions while the environment itself becomes an active threat — and yes, if you enjoy your sci-fi action "intense violence" alongside that classic Trek exploration DNA, prepare for **blood AND gore against aliens**, as Bloober promises!
From everything I'm seeing across both Steam listings and Nintendo Life's excellent coverage (huge shoutout to Liam Doolan on the write-up), this is shaping up to be exactly the kind of "patient observation rewarded" experience that makes us love horror-games-that-really-respect-your-smarts. It blends exploration, puzzles, combat, cinematic set-pieces — and a gripping story built around patience, observation, and smart decision-making rather than reflex-fest button-mashing. And if Star Trek wasn't enough to get you excited today, Bloober also dropped the news that **Cronos: Lazarus DLC** is coming in Fall 2026 as well (returning us to New Dawn's wastelands with a story about transforming into that lovable Warden character), so their pipeline of quality stuff isn't slowing down at all.
Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/06/horror-specialist-bloober-team-is-releasing-a-new-star-trek-game-on-switch-2