Star Trek: Bridge Crew has been suddenly delisted
But it’s still available on the Ubisoft website.
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Ubisoft’s virtual reality take on Star Trek has been delisted on Steam and the Oculus Store. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a cooperative VR game that tasks players with collaborating on the upkeep of the Enterprise. Jameshad a lot of fun with itback in 2017, and while it was definitely built for VR headsets, anon-VR editiondid eventually release.
But if you head over tothe Steam pagenow, a notice warns that “at the request of the publisher, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is no longer available for sale on Steam.” Meanwhile, the game is only available to wishlist onthe Oculus Store. There is, at the time of writing, one way to purchase Star Trek: Bridge Crew, and that’s viathe Ubisoft webstore. You’ll need to buy it via browser, though, because it’s unavailable on the Ubisoft desktop app.
Often when a game is delisted, the publisher offers forewarning and sometimes even a drastic discount, but not in this instance. I’ve reached out to Ubisoft for comment on the delisting, though given it’s a Star Trek game, it’s probably due to a license expiry.
That doesn’t rule out its return, though, and there’s every possibility the delisting will be brief. One recent example of a temporary delisting was theLEGO Lord of the Rings games.Activision’s fairly average Deadpool game also has a history of being intermittently unavailable.
It’d be a real shame if Bridge Crew doesn’t return in some form, because it ticks a lot of roleplaying boxes for long time Star Trek fans. “During my four hour session with Star Trek: Bridge Crew, there wasn’t any mind-bending discovery or unbounding optimism and no kissing (damn!),” Jameswrote in 2017ahead of the game’s launch. “There was a lot of goofing off and weird finger gestures and panicked yelling. We’re not professional space pilots with cool accents and trim jumpsuits, but Bridge Crew makes me want to be one.”
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Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.
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