Tactical Alert After a four-month wait, two Star Trek classics are finally available on GOG.

"Star Trek: Armada" and "Star Trek: Armada II" are available for download starting today (December 13) for $10 each, and fans of retro sci-fi real-time strategy games will be very happy. Also, the GOG Winter Sale starts today, so even if you're not particularly interested in the Armada game, you can still get many of the best PC games at steep discounts, including six other fan-favorite Star Trek games.

Information was obtained directly from the GOG website. For those who don't know, GOG (formerly Good Old Games) is an online video game retailer and download platform. CD Projekt Red, the developer and publisher of "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" and "Cyberpunk 2077," runs GOG. compared to platforms like Steam and the Epic Games Store, GOG is relatively less restrictive, and players are not tied to an Internet-connected

The first step is to download and install the games as they wish, without being tied to an Internet-connected client.

First things first: let's talk about the Armada game. If you are not familiar with Star Trek: Armada and its sequel, it is a Star Trek RTS game from the early 2000s. Think of it as "Starcraft in the Star Trek universe," and you get the basic drift. You take control of well-known factions such as the Federation, the Klingons, and the Borg, and play through two original storylines featuring Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E.

I won't go into excruciating detail about either game, but these were the experimental, mid-budget Star Trek games of the era, simply copying and improving gameplay elements from the popular genre, and often surprisingly well. [For example: the RTS mechanics of the Armada game are nothing special: collecting resources, building ships, destroying enemy bases, etc. However, the game has a Star Trek "vibe" and incorporates a lot of the lore from the show and the movies.

Now, the bad news. Star Trek: Armada and Star Trek: Armada II were just released today on GOG, so they are not discounted in the GOG Winter Sale. But if RTS games aren't your thing, you can get six other classic Trek titles for $8 a piece:

On the other hand, if Star Trek isn't your thing and you came to this page purely to learn about the GOG Winter Sale, here's another great deal: on GOG, thousands of discounted titles, including Cyberpunk 2077 for $30, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice for $7, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition for $10, Stardew Valley for Remember, unlike Steam, you don't need a launcher or Internet connection to play these games.