Voyager’ Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix

Last month, we were very excited to see the announcement of Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, a new survival game from Daedelic Entertainment and Gamexcite that tasks you with charting the U.S.S. Voyager‘s journey home from the Delta Quadrant as you repair the ship in the wake of the event that flung it 70,000 light-years across space in the first place, and make your own decisions from the captain’s chair about where to go, who to fight, and who’s on your crew.

And yes, that means you will be able to decide whether or not there is justice for Tuvix.

As part of a new gameplay trailer revealed for Across the Unknown today at Indie Fan Fest Fall 2025, we got to see much more of how Across the Unknown will actually be played, from the structure of its space combat to how players will be able to build out the interior of Voyager itself as they see fit (and gawk at a cross-section of the ship filled with the crew going about their day-to-day business). There’s also a brief glimpse of how decision-making on away missions will play out, as players leverage the skills of crew they’ve decided to bring on the assignment to pass skill checks or persuade arguments to go in your favor.

And, yes, we do get a little tease of some of the big changes you can make to Voyager‘s journey home as we saw it in the show. Hilariously, it looks like you’ll be able to attempt to get back to the Alpha Quadrant almost immediately by not destroying the Caretaker’s array as Janeway did in the pilot for the series—if the game lets you end a run in record time like that, that’s quite fun, even if it means you have to boot up another one to actually play the game for an extended period of time.

But it’ll be the other choice teased here that has people excited: the fact that you can choose whether to separate Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix after the transporter accident that created him. There’s no way a game like Across the Unknown wouldn’t have let us make that decision, of course, but it’s still good to see it laid out here, so people can finally put to bed for themselves what has been one of the longest-running debates about Janeway’s captaincy.

Now I’m just waiting to see whether or not deleting the wife will become an important decision whenever my Voyager gets round to building a 19th century Irish village on the holodeck.

Star Trek Voyager – Across the Unknown still doesn’t have a release window, but aside from being available to wishlist on Steam for PC players, it’s now been confirmed that the game is also coming to Xbox Series X and S as well as PS5.

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