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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has an upgraded Steam demo ahead of release, with a teaser of new voice-overs and the proper music.

I'm really happy to see they've properly listened to all the feedback from the earlier demo, because the atmosphere of it was really lacking but everything else seemed like it would make a really fantastic game for Star Trek fans to live out of a bit of fantasy changing all the decisions the Voyager crew had to make.

Their team announced earlier this week that some voice-over would be in the game, and with returning actors from the original TV series:

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown features fully voiced logs by Tuvok and Tom Paris at the beginning of each sector. These logs recap recent events and set the stage for the mission ahead, helping ground each mission in the ongoing journey of the Voyager crew.

It was important to us to bring back the original actors, Tim Russ and Robert Duncan McNeill, and to work directly with them in a way that felt authentic and true to these iconic characters. Even though this day and age brings interesting new techniques, focusing on performances recorded by the actors themselves allowed us to create something personal and meaningful within the scope of the project.

And now they have a new trailer, along with the updated demo featuring Duncan McNeill available to try right now. This new demo also includes an updated main menu with the original Star Trek: Voyager main theme.

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Jumping into the refreshed demo myself to see, and it really feels a whole lot better (and works great with Proton 10). A little extra goes a long way here for the authenticity and just overall atmosphere.

The full game arrives February 18th.

Release Date: 18th February 2026
Platform: ⚛ Proton / Wine
Official links:Steam
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Jarmer 3 hours ago
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Really want to give this a go, but I haven't yet because it's got that cursed word in the tags "rogue" ... but then when reading about nothing mentioned is roguelike or roguelite or whatever. Strange? I suppose I'll have to just try the demo and find out for myself!

Edit: well I never found out if/what the rogue-xyz elements are, because I must be the stupidest human being alive. I got to the tutorial part of the solar system view where I'm suppose to scan some planets / objects, and nothing worked. Or I couldn't figure out how to make it work. It says to left click and right click to do stuff, but it does nothing. So I'm either REALLY dumb, or the demo isn't working?

Last edited by Jarmer on 13 Feb 2026 at 4:39 pm UTC
Tethys84 2 hours ago
My partner and I are SOOO excited for this. Voyager is our favorite of the Star Treks. I super cannot wait.
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