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Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy cover art

Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy

Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2015-05-08

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureSimulation

Franchise: Star Trek · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 12, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 1997 (Mac)

A must for any fan, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is an action/flight simulator featuring filmed footage of the original Star Trek actors. Take your place among the best and brightest at Starfleet Academy!

82%
positive of 132 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
17h
to beat · rushed 14h · completionist 40h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a Star Trek PC simulation game developed and published by Interplay in 1997. The game simulates the life of a typical Starfleet cadet, with the player learning the basics of flying a starship and engaging in roleplaying with a crew of cadets, with the eventual goal of becoming captain of their own ship. The game included full motion video featuring William Shatner, Walter Koenig, and George Takei reprising their roles from the original television series and movies, and a multiplayer simulation mode allowing for up to 32 players.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 59% of 12,964 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 132 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2015-12-29) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320152026Week of 2015-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$2.392015-05-082026-08-282015-05-08 — best price $5.992016-01-03 — best price $5.992016-05-23 — best price $2.392016-07-19 — best price $5.992016-11-29 — best price $5.992017-07-24 — best price $2.392017-11-07 — best price $9.992018-02-18 — best price $6.992018-05-04 — best price $6.992018-07-23 — best price $9.992018-10-11 — best price $5.492018-12-10 — best price $4.992019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-06-10 — best price $6.992019-08-05 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-07-04 — best price $9.992020-12-02 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $7.992021-10-11 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $7.992022-10-10 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-10-16 — best price $6.992024-01-05 — best price $6.992024-05-01 — best price $7.992024-09-21 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-08-20 — best price $15.992026-08-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DFMVFPSCo-opSpaceActionCombatFlightSci-fiShooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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