Overview

Star Trek: The Neutral Zone emerges as a straightforward space shooter offering casual entertainment in both solo and multiplayer modes. Early impressions paint it as a simple diversion rather than a deep engagement, with its 2D presentation providing accessible arcade-style action. The game's appeal seems most apparent in local multiplayer sessions, though its limited scope and technical constraints prevent it from becoming a standout experience. For Trekkies looking for quick space skirmishes, it delivers momentary fun without demanding long-term commitment.

Accessible Arcade Action

The game presents uncomplicated space combat through its clean 2D visual design. Eight different maps offer cosmetic variety through changing backgrounds rather than strategic diversity, keeping the focus squarely on straightforward dogfights. Movement mechanics prove divisive, with some finding the ship controls frustratingly restrictive during solo play. This limitation becomes less noticeable during multiplayer sessions where the social experience compensates for the technical constraints. The interface receives praise for its intuitive design, making match setup straightforward whether playing against bots or human opponents.

Multiplayer can prove to be a lot of fun amongst you and your friends despite the lack of movement control and speed.

Mr mike

Casual Engagement Limits

The Neutral Zone positions itself firmly in the casual gaming space, serving best as a time-filler rather than a mainstay. Its longevity suffers from repetitive gameplay loops and minimal progression systems. The multiplayer component shines brightest during LAN sessions with friends, though finding opponents through internet matchmaking proves challenging due to low player counts. This creates an unfortunate paradox: the game's most enjoyable aspect requires coordinated local play while its online functionality remains underutilized. Single-player mode struggles to maintain engagement due to the aforementioned movement limitations and predictable bot behavior.

It's more of a casual game you'd play to kill some time rather than something you'll play often and join a clan in.

KrazyKain

Verdict

"Fun casual multiplayer hampered by limited controls"

STRENGTHS

65%

Local Multiplayer80%

Casual Accessibility75%

Simple Interface70%

WEAKNESSES

35%

Restrictive Controls85%

Empty Online75%

Limited Content70%

Basic Graphics60%

Community Reviews

3 reviews

Mr mike

Trusted

Star Trek: The Neutral Zone is a relatively fun, single player or multi player (across LAN or the Internet (TCP/IP)) space shooter game. When launching this game you are presented with a nicely designed GUI to choose what type of game you are wanting to play (network or single player). Once you have selected your game type you can now select the frag limit, which map you would like to use (there are 8 to choose from), and how many bots you would like to be included in the game. The game itself is nothing outstanding. Graphics are simple and 2D and the only point in changing the map seems to be to simply change what the background looks like. I found single player a bit frustrating because the movement is difficult, it felt somewhat restricted although multilayer can prove to be a lot of fun amongst you and your friends despite the lack of movement control and speed. Over all Star Trek: The Neutral Zone is fun, but not too fun. Will keep you occupied for a short while, give it a try.

KrazyKain

It is a fun game and certainly something to play online. It's more of a casual game you'd play to kill some time rather than something you'll play often and join a clan in... but fun nonetheless. The only shame is I rarely find people online.