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Star Trek: Infection

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61%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, graphics
61% User Score Based on 59 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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61%Audience ScoreBased on 59 reviews
story14 positive mentions
optimization7 negative mentions
  • Immersive Star Trek atmosphere with detailed ship interiors and authentic Starfleet aesthetic.
  • Engaging story and character interactions, especially with the Vulcan protagonist and Cardassian character.
  • Fun VR experience for Star Trek fans and sci-fi horror enthusiasts, with interactive devices like tricorders and phasers.
  • Severe technical issues including crashes, bugs, poor performance, and controller tracking problems across multiple platforms.
  • Gameplay mechanics are clunky and frustrating, with repetitive stealth segments, awkward controls, and some progression-blocking bugs.
  • Low graphical fidelity and optimization problems leading to a less immersive experience, with odd animations and low-res textures.

  • story

    44 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    32% positive mentions, 61% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for its engaging, Star Trek-inspired narrative and atmosphere, featuring intriguing plot elements and strong characters within a linear, exploration-driven progression. However, some players find the horror mystery angle unexpected, and others note the story feels incomplete or contains plot holes. Despite its interesting premise and immersive environment, gameplay and technical limitations, especially on Quest hardware, occasionally detract from the storytelling experience.

    • “Personally, I really like the story and atmosphere and, to some degree, the environmental graphics.”
    • “Still, the progress of becoming a Vulcan engineer and fighting infection and solving problems with various tools is not obvious and is interesting with a tense story for me.”
    • “A great Star Trek vibe with strong characters and a good story (at least as far as I got, I'm not through with it when writing this).”
    • “The game autosaves so even if you manually save before plot points, the autosave 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

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    12% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 28% negative mentions

    Optimization for the game has improved significantly since launch, addressing many initial performance issues, but some players still experience frame drops and stuttering, especially during more demanding segments. Performance varies widely across hardware, with some high-end setups reporting poor results, while others with mid-range systems find it acceptable. Lack of graphics settings and occasional HUD readability issues also contribute to optimization concerns, though developers have prioritized fixes.

    • “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.”
    • “That said, 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

    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    19% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 19% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some praising the nostalgic, original-series-inspired aesthetic and immersive visual elements, while others criticize them as simple, lackluster, or comparable to mobile-level quality. Performance and graphical improvements from patches have helped, but the absence of graphics settings and lower detail may hinder users with slower GPUs. Overall, the visuals effectively support the atmosphere but fall short of modern PC game standards.

    • “Nice story, nice graphics (using Quest 2 on SteamVR), nice overall experience!”
    • “When I bought the game shortly after release it had some pretty annoying performance issues and the graphics were not so great, but since the latest patches all of this vastly improved, and it is now a very enjoyable experience I can fully recommend, especially to the average Trekkie as I am.”
    • “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.”
    • “What I have played of the game so far is dry and dull. Could change theme/graphics and call it 'generic VR game for Sunday drivers.' 0/10 - would not trade cold pressed latinum or self-sealing stem bolts for a copy of this wonky trek.”
    • “Unfortunately, there are no graphics settings, and users with 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

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    25% positive mentions, 37% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    Gameplay receives mixed feedback, with some players appreciating the immersive Star Trek environment and story, while others find the mechanics repetitive, uninspiring, and occasionally frustrating due to puzzle and stealth elements. Exploration is noted as enjoyable, but the gameplay can feel like a chore, especially for those less fond of puzzles. Overall, the experience is praised for its VR immersion but criticized for lack of variety and depth in gameplay 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 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

    Players appreciate the game's atmosphere for capturing the classic Star Trek vibe through its story, writing, voice acting, and ship interiors, evoking a true space opera feel. While some find the graphics simplistic and less immersive by modern standards, others see this as a nostalgic homage to the original 1960s TV series. However, the shift toward mystery horror elements has surprised some expecting a more traditional space adventure.

    • “I love Star Trek and this indeed was Star Trek from the atmosphere and writing to the voice acting and ship interiors.”
    • “Personally, I really like the story and atmosphere and to some degree the environmental graphics.”
    • “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.”

  • stability

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

    The game generally runs well and looks impressive on supported devices, but users report occasional glitches and minor issues with hand tracking, such as hands getting stuck on objects. Overall, stability is good but could benefit from fixing these occasional 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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6h Median play time
5h Average play time
2-7h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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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, Hubris, SCP: Fragmented Minds, Robinson: The Journey, Metro Awakening and others.