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Star Trek: Infection

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62%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, graphics
62% User Score Based on 55 reviews

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About Star Trek: Infection

Star Trek: Infection is a single player survival action adventure game with horror, violence and science fiction themes. It was developed by Played with Fire and was released on March 31, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

A VR full-body narrative survival experience set in the Star Trek universe. You’re a Vulcan Starfleet officer, sent on a special mission aboard the U.S.S. Lumen, but something has gone horribly wrong. There’s no crew in sight, and an unknown entity has infested the ship. Now it’s inside your body, physically mutating you, unlocking dangerous new abilities at the cost of your sanity.

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62%Audience ScoreBased on 55 reviews
story13 positive mentions
optimization6 negative mentions
  • Authentic Star Trek atmosphere with well-designed ship interiors and UI elements.
  • Engaging story with interesting characters and dialogue that appeal to Star Trek fans.
  • Unique gameplay as a Vulcan engineer with varied mechanics like tricorder scanning and infection abilities.
  • Numerous technical issues including frequent crashes, bugs, soft locks, and poor performance even on high-end hardware.
  • Unstable and awkward controls with problematic hand tracking and height calibration in VR.
  • Low-quality graphics and animations, along with repetitive and sometimes poor voice acting.

  • story

    43 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 63% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The story is generally well-received for its engaging, tense narrative and fitting Star Trek atmosphere, with intriguing elements like becoming a Vulcan engineer and exploring a Defiant ship. However, some players find it somewhat linear, occasionally plot-hole filled, and not fully realized, with mixed feelings on its horror and mystery tones. Despite technical and graphical limitations, the story and lore stand out as the game's strongest aspect, compelling many to continue playing.

    • “Still, the progress of becoming a Vulcan engineer, fighting infection, and solving problems with various tools is not obvious and is interesting with a tense story.”
    • “The direction, story, and designs feel appropriately on-brand.”
    • “The story and lore were top of the line.”
    • “The game autosaves so even if you manually save before plot points, the auto save will still put you in a hard blocker and then save, ruining your game save file.”
    • “The story might be a bit dumb for Star Trek standards.”
    • “The polygon levels look like a 25-year-old PC game due to being designed for the extremely slow Quest 2 phone GPU (Adreno 650); the geometry is even lower than Metro Awakening.”

  • optimization

    24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    13% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    Optimization for the game is widely criticized, with many users experiencing poor performance even on high-end hardware and noticing frame drops, stuttering, and lack of graphics settings. While some acknowledge that optimization is somewhat manageable on VR consoles like Quest 3, overall performance issues remain a major concern and are reportedly a development priority.

    • “I'm considering following Quest 3 optimization simply because it's basically a console, so optimization for one device must be more manageable for what is essentially a VR console experience.”
    • “The game supports Meta's OpenXR drivers for optimal Meta HMD performance.”
    • “I'm only on a 3050 and a Quest 2, and performance has been fine so far for me.”
    • “If lack of optimization was a crime, they'd have to work on it from a jail cell, because this is just criminal.”
    • “I have an RTX 4090 laptop and at 1x resolution on a Quest 3, with in-game resolution scale on lowest, performance is terrible.”
    • “Even on my RTX 5090, I was getting bad performance.”

  • graphics

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    21% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed reviews, with some appreciating the nostalgic, TV series-inspired visual aesthetic and immersive design, while others find them overly simple and comparable to mobile-level quality. Performance issues may arise for users with slower GPUs due to the lack of graphics settings. Overall, the graphics effectively convey the game's atmosphere but fall short of modern VR sci-fi standards.

    • “Nice story, nice graphics (using Quest 2 on SteamVR), nice overall experience!”
    • “Personally, I really like the story and atmosphere and to some degree the environmental graphics.”
    • “So far it seems like you'll get most out of it if you read all the logs etc. They've really nailed the visual aesthetic.”
    • “For today's games, graphics are too simple, which lowers the sense of immersion.”
    • “Unfortunately there are no graphics settings, and users of slower GPUs may struggle with performance.”
    • “On the graphics side, it's a shame we've gone from space sci-fi like Lone Echo 2 to this mobile device level of graphics.”

  • gameplay

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    43% positive mentions, 14% neutral mentions, 43% negative mentions

    The gameplay is praised for its immersive Star Trek atmosphere and exploration but criticized for feeling repetitive, uninspiring, and sometimes more like a chore, especially due to puzzle and stealth mechanics. While some enjoy the challenge of figuring things out, others wish for more dynamic or multiplayer experiences. Overall, the gameplay receives mixed reactions, balancing strong thematic immersion with less engaging mechanics.

    • “Being inside a Trek story in VR is fantastic and I'm enjoying the gameplay.”
    • “I actually like getting stuck for a minute and figuring out what to do through gameplay.”
    • “It could be me as I'm not much of a puzzle game fan, and the gameplay seemed to boil down to a bit of stealth and then deliberately infecting yourself to get alien grapples in order to traverse things, but you have to do stuff in the exact right order or you die from over infection or one of the monsters.”
    • “It could be me as I'm not much of a puzzle game fan and the gameplay seemed to boil down to a bit of stealth and then deliberately infecting yourself to get alien grapples in order to traverse things but do stuff in the exact right order or you die from over infection or one of the monsters.”
    • “I've played a couple of hours on the Quest 3 now, it's an okay game, but the mechanics are a bit uninspiring and it just makes you wish there was a multiplayer game where you were an actual crew member on a sim ship.”
    • “Even after only 2 hours of gameplay, I had already seen multiple hallways and rooms that looked just like the ones I had just come across.”

  • atmosphere

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is praised for capturing the authentic Star Trek feel through its story, writing, voice acting, and ship interiors, effectively evoking a classic space opera vibe. While some find the graphics simple and less immersive by modern standards, others appreciate this as a nostalgic nod to the original 1960s TV series. However, the inclusion of mystery horror elements was unexpected and somewhat confusing for those anticipating a traditional space adventure.

    • “I love Star Trek and this indeed was Star Trek—from the atmosphere and writing to the voice acting and ship's interior.”
    • “For today's games, graphics are too simple, which lowers the sense of immersion, but if I think differently, it can be seen as reviving the atmosphere of the original TV series that began in the 1960s.”
    • “Personally, I really like the story and atmosphere and to some degree the environmental graphics.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The game generally runs well and looks good on supported hardware, but users report numerous glitches and occasional hand tracking issues, such as hands getting stuck on objects. Overall, stability is decent but marred by frustrating bugs.

    • “Game runs great on my PC and looks great on my Quest 3.”
    • “Game runs great on my rig; hand tracking is just fine though my hands do get stuck on the tricorder every once in a while.”
    • “Tons of horrendous glitches.”
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2-7h Spent by most gamers
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Star Trek: Infection is a survival action adventure game with horror, violence and science fiction themes. Common tags for Star Trek: Infection include first-person, 3D, realistic, indie, trading and others.

Star Trek: Infection is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

On average players spend around 5 hours playing Star Trek: Infection.

Star Trek: Infection was released on March 31, 2026.

Star Trek: Infection was developed by Played with Fire.

Star Trek: Infection has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Star Trek: Infection for its story but disliked it for its optimization.

Star Trek: Infection is a single player game.

Similar games include Alien: Rogue Incursion VR, SCP: Fragmented Minds, Hubris, P.A.M.E.L.A, The Solus Project and others.