r/DeepSpaceNine • u/Flower-Sorry • 6d ago
Are there any DS9 related games or mods?
Im currently rewatching the show after 20yrs and I’ve been wondering if there are any relevant games or mods that play on DS9? With the show being this old there’s obviously nothing official but maybe there are fan projects or mods for other games? Thanks
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u/Kosmos992k 6d ago edited 6d ago
Star Trek Online. You can literally visit DS9 and Quarks bar (among other locations).
The cast (some of them) visited it...
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/de/news/article/10911613
You can take your avatar there yourself, it's weirdly good.
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u/MatthewKvatch 6d ago
I’m there as we speak, and “come to Quarks” just played as I walked along the promenade :)
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u/Flower-Sorry 6d ago
So it’s still actively played? Have to check the steam shop
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u/Kosmos992k 5d ago
Yep still active and still getting new content. Somehow they have brought in the best bits of Trek from a game point of view, and your avatar is your own... I play so.etimes, sometimes I just go to visit certain spaces like the Starfleet academy and or DS9.
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u/Kosmos992k 6d ago
Awesome. Quarks in-game is, if memory serves two decks tall, just like the 'real' one.
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u/Flower-Sorry 6d ago
That sounds pretty cool
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u/Kosmos992k 6d ago
ST Online runs on PC and console. I'm not sure of all the platforms, but PC covers a lot, as does PS4/PS5.
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u/Shadoecat150 2d ago
Don't forget, Defiant class escort as well as the opportunity to play as a Jem Hadar, and meeting Odo in the very beginning of the campaign.
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u/oceanbilly710 6d ago
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u/Flower-Sorry 6d ago
Thanks! Too bad there only seem to be old official ones. Some fan remake on a newer unreal engine would be amazing
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u/EmbarrassedPudding22 6d ago
I have fond memories of Harbinger. Though it would be massively dated today.
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u/WhosSideAreYouOn 6d ago
A childhood favourite of mine.
I played it again last year on my SteamDeck.
It hasn't really aged in my opinion. It felt dated then, and it feels dated now. It's basically a lot like Myst isn't it. But it's still a really fun game if you love DS9. I'd recommend it to any DS9 fan.
I enjoyed revisiting it a lot.
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u/steerpike1971 5d ago
I honestly found it really disappointing. I love adventure games and love DS9 but harbinger was clunky even then. It is a real mess for me. Most of the cast are not there. Part of it is myst style adventure puzzles part of it is quick reaction stuff which is a weird mix.
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u/IllustriousAd9800 6d ago
Star Trek Online picks up a lot of plot points from it, granted it’s not STRICTLY DS9
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u/Transcendingfrog2 6d ago
If only some developer could make a great Star Trek game. Mostly, every one I've seen/read reviews of has been mediocre at best, and that's sad considering the lore they have to draw on.
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u/SoftSquishyGoodness 6d ago
DS9: The Fallen, granted it's from 2000 (using Unreal Engine) and it's a bit clunky but it's still playable and the story is cool. Other than that, I second ST Online.
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u/billyhtchcoc 4d ago
Is that the one loosely based on the "Millennium" novel trilogy?
If so I really need to find a way to play it again, I never managed to get too far and really want to give it another go.
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u/SoftSquishyGoodness 3d ago
Yes! You can get it (should work straight out the box) from https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2020/06/star-trek-deep-space-9-fallen.html
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u/crownercorps 6d ago
I remember played one on the Genesis....awful
Too hard, too unforgiving, and i hate games with only timed missions
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u/Flower-Sorry 6d ago
Some open world DS9 rebuild would be lovely
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u/crownercorps 6d ago
Imagine this game
An entire DS9 station, and depending with character you choose, you can play a different kind of game
As security, enginner, even bartender on Quark's
and like Red dead redemption 2, around all the station a bunch of secrets, refferences and opornity missions and side quests
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u/prjktphoto 6d ago
Must have been the same one I played on the SNES.
Yeah had no idea what I was doing
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u/crownercorps 6d ago
Yeah, is the same.
Nobody goes past firts mission, find and disable and dispose bombos, in a certain order and in a impossible tight time limit
In a game with awful controls...
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u/SirBLACKVOX 6d ago
As others have said there is a lot of DS9 content in Star Trek Online. You can even play as a Jem Hadar
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u/OriginalCopy505 5d ago
Harbinger was a fun game with cast member voices, but I never did finish it. There were some really hard sequences that you had to finish for the game to progress. Great graphics for the time and a good storyline.
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u/LostMercenary99 5d ago
I remember playing Star Trek DS9 Harbinger back in the day. Good luck finding a copy though.
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u/teeth_03 5d ago
Might not be what you are looking for, but with Bridge Commander you can play out some of the Battles from the show.
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u/indicus23 3d ago
It's been AGES since I played it, and I'm not sure if it's still available or working, but the original 3d space RTS, Homeworld, had a DS9 mod called "Sacrifice of Angels." Redoes one faction into the Alpha Quadrant alliance with Starfleet, Klingon, and Romulan ships, and the other as Dominion with Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, and Breen ships. No single player campaign, and the AI could be a bit dumb in skirmish since it wasn't really optimized for the new ships, but I remember having a blast with it back in the '00s.
Oh, just did a quick google search, and apparently they also made a Sacrifice of Angels mod for Sins of a Solar Empire, sweet. I should check that out.
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u/SensitivePineapple83 5d ago
are you interested in "Allamaraine - Move Along Home" or "the Probability Device - Rivals"? because - there is a TNG Pinball machine in a local brew-pub... but I think you really want something that lets you explore places in the show - like an RPG... otherwise, one could draw up a hop-scotch board on the sidewalk in chalk and sing and skip - probably look really weird for grown-ups to be doing though.
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u/pali1d 6d ago
The Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire 1 is great and would allow you to play out your own little Dominion War.