Star Trek: Resurgence Delisted from Steam and Xbox Over Licensing Issues

Star Trek: Resurgence has become a sharp reminder that a licensed game can disappear from major storefronts faster than most players expect. The narrative adventure was pulled from Steam and the Xbox Store because of licensing rights, cutting off new digital purchases even though the game had built a solid reputation with fans.

Bruner House and Dramatic Labs said on Steam that the game would “no longer be offered for sale.” Anyone who already bought it on Steam or Xbox can still play it through those libraries, but the public-facing storefront route is gone. For new buyers, the game was still listed on the Epic Games Store, Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store, leaving those platforms as the remaining official places to pick it up digitally.

That shrinking footprint matters because Star Trek: Resurgence was not an old back-catalog relic. It first launched on Epic Games Store in May 2023, reached Steam on May 23, 2024, arrived on PlayStation later in 2024, and only came to Nintendo Switch in August 2025. Nintendo’s Switch listing marked the release date as August 28, 2025, with the version positioned as a digital narrative adventure built around dialog choices, relationship building and exploration. In other words, a game barely into its life cycle was already being removed from sale.

The delisting lands especially hard because the game was not being quietly rejected by players. Metacritic currently lists the PC version with a 71 metascore and a 6.8 user score, a middle-of-the-road reception that points more toward rights issues than a dead audience. Developed by Dramatic Labs and published by Bruner House, the game also carried the kind of pedigree that Star Trek fans tend to notice, with the Steam community page describing it as an authentic Star Trek adventure from former Telltale Games staff.

That makes the loss feel bigger than one storefront takedown. Star Trek: Resurgence follows Jara Rydek, Carter Diaz, Spock and a promoted Captain Riker in a story set after The Next Generation, a setup built on a franchise that usually celebrates bold exploration. Instead, the game itself has become a case study in how quickly licensed stories can be fenced off when contracts change, leaving preservation to whatever storefronts and libraries survive the next round of licensing negotiations.