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The Silent Hill studio just boldly went somewhere very unexpected
Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn developer Bloober Team has announced its next project, and nobody saw this coming. Partnering with Paramount Games Studio, the Polish horror specialists are making Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, the first psychological horror game set in the Star Trek universe. The game was revealed during IGN Live this week and is targeting a 2027 release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Star Trek has had a complicated history with video games. The franchise produced some memorable narrative adventures, including Star Trek: Resurgence, which leaned hard into choice-driven storytelling. Shadow Frontier takes a dramatically different direction, putting the IP squarely in the hands of a studio that has built its entire identity around psychological dread.
A TNG character, a graveyard planet, and something worse
The setup is genuinely compelling. Players control Ro Laren, the morally complex Bajoran officer from Star Trek: The Next Generation, after she crash-lands on a mysterious planet while responding to a distress call. What she finds is a spaceship graveyard where the environment itself seems hostile, populated by twisted creatures and an entity described as seeking to "envelop her body and mind."
Here's the thing: Ro Laren is a smart pick for this kind of story. She appeared in only a handful of TNG episodes across the show's seven seasons, but she left a lasting impression on fans precisely because she was never a clean-cut Starfleet hero. She had edges. That moral complexity maps well onto survival horror, where protagonists rarely have the luxury of clean decisions.
Michelle Forbes, who originated the role in The Next Generation, is returning to voice and portray the character. That's a meaningful commitment to authenticity, and it signals that Paramount isn't just slapping the Star Trek logo on a generic horror project.
Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is the first horror game ever made within the Star Trek franchise, marking a significant genre shift for the IP.
What Bloober Team is actually promising here
Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno described the studio as full of lifelong Star Trek fans, framing the project as a chance to combine that fandom with the psychological thriller craft the studio has refined over multiple games. The goal, in his words, is to honor the Star Trek legacy while delivering something "respectfully yet refreshingly different."
That framing matters. Bloober's track record shows a studio that understands atmosphere and psychological pressure. The Silent Hill 2 Remake demonstrated they could handle beloved IP without dismantling what made it work. Shadow Frontier is a bigger creative swing, though, because it's not a remake. This is original Star Trek horror, built from scratch.
The Star Trek universe has always had horror-adjacent elements hiding underneath the optimistic surface. Episodes like "Genesis" and "Conspiracy" from TNG went to genuinely unsettling places. Shadow Frontier seems to be pulling on those threads and stretching them into a full game.
Twisted creatures of Shadow Frontier
Star Trek gaming in 2027 and beyond
The timing is interesting. Star Trek gaming has been picking up momentum, with Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown representing the franchise's push into new interactive territory. Shadow Frontier slots into a broader pattern of Paramount investing more seriously in games as a storytelling medium rather than a licensing afterthought.
No exact release window within 2027 has been confirmed yet. The announcement came with a trailer but no gameplay footage, which is typical for a project this early in its public life. What most players miss in announcements like this is how much the studio's pedigree actually matters. Bloober Team is not a wildcard here. They have a specific, practiced skill set, and psychological horror set on an alien world with a compelling lead character is squarely within it.
For fans wanting to get deeper into the Star Trek gaming universe while waiting, the Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown guides are a solid place to start building familiarity with how the franchise translates into interactive experiences. Shadow Frontier is shaping up to be the most ambitious Star Trek game in years, and 2027 is not that far away.
