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Star Trek: Outposts Unknown

Lead your crew across strange new worlds in this narrative driven outpost builder! Research, explore, and build as you face a mysterious cosmic force that threatens a new ally. Your adventure awaits, Captain!

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Construct complex research facilities across strange new worlds in the first-ever outpost builder set in the Star Trek universe. Explore diverse tech and buildings trees, and carefully choose which structures will help explore and build as you face a mysterious cosmic force that threatens all life in the system. Lead your crew through dangerous encounters that will test their morale and prowess. Explore the X'Lehari System, assign tasks to your crew and develop your officers to ensure their survival. Explore the X’Lehari System with a completely original Star Trek story set in the 23rd century, alongside the era depicted in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Traverse through unique environments, meet new characters, and use iconic technology in your mission to render aid to a fragile civilization’s impending catastrophe.

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67%positive · Mixed

36 English reviews · Oct 21, 2026

“Outposts Unknown is a solid, if slow paced(not in a bad way!), base builder, with a lovely bit of Star Trek flavoring to it. The mechanics of the game are very straightforward for a base builder, nothing is at all obtuse for someone who has only played a handful of games in the genre. Managing your resources is fa…”

TravestyChandler

1.9h played · 5 helpful

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“Played this on the Steamdeck today. Runs well, no obvious crashes, took a bit of messing about on the controller (xbox controller) but soon got it sorted. Very similar to surviving mars. Love the Star Trek theme. Played for about 2 hours and will be jumping straight back in tomorrow morning. It's what I would expect…”

GameKEEPerXX

2.1h played · 7 helpful

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“After almost 8 hours of playing it, I mostly enjoyed it, but I would also like to see it receive more polish and maybe some rebalancing from the devs. More specifically: - Resource harvesting in clunky and weirdly manual for the tech available in the day; gravity platforms and those gather trucks should be unlocke…”

Steppenwolf0

7.6h played · 0 helpful

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“I'm a pretty avid Star Trek fan and an enjoyer and base builders. The game does a pretty solid balance of having a rich and detailed crew, especially the main officer staff, that I want to make sure get through the mission and having the distinct pleasure of starting from absolutely nothing and creating a large, spa…”

ActionManDan

18.3h played · 30 helpful

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