Star Trek Social Club

They're low-budget games made by small teams and the subject matter limits the amount of stylisation they can do. Making photorealistic depictions of humans not look like toys actually takes a good amount of work, it's not just about having the technology available to you.

Also, Dramatic Labs (Resurgence) is made up of former Telltale employees, so they're mostly experienced with stylised graphics, and before Across the Unknown, gameXcite only made a bunch of Asterix games, so this is their first time making a game that isn't supposed to look like a comic book.

It's a narrative game. The graphics are intended to be more functional than pretty.

I also wish there was more voice acting, but the problem there is likely that you'd need the entire Voyager cast to chime in to sound right and there is a lot of dialogue. Not to mention, even the voiced logs with Tim Russ / RDM sound off because they're 30 years older...

As for 6GB of VRAM, I blame the engine if that's a real number and not one from the recommended specs (which are probably more about GPU power than memory). This game runs on Steam Deck and it technically doesn't have any VRAM.

Resurgence had voice acting for the whole game.

Paris' massive forehead when he's sitting at the helm. Its just so large. The art for their portraits when speaking are fine. The 3d models on everyone are really off-putting. But someone put their time into making them and thats what they went with so cool. Whatever.

I take more issue with all of the missed opportunities. Save Tuvix, but then he's completely forgotten by the story AND you lose out on all Neelix and Tuvok specific dialog options.

Keep B'elanna split and Klingon version is ignored while the human one keeps the hybrid model for the 3d model and portrait art. But Klingon B'elanna does show up on the bridge a whole one time.

And the bugs. I've had the number of cycles to the next system completely vanish (kind of important in a resource management game), heroes just up and get removed when starting a new sector never to be seen again, interior locking up when trying to build a new room, freezes, and crashes.

It needed more time to cook, I think. Then putting out a paid DLC in the first week always screams to me that content was deliberately withheld for money

Resurgence was cool, though.

In this particular screenshot, it looks like its an unfortunate case of lighting.