Paul Verhoeven‘s “Starship Troopers“ was absolutely ripe for being made into a video game. The feature was big on satire, excessive violence, and over the top bravado. It helps that it was adapted to the screen by Edward Neumeier (“Robocop“). The film seems ready-made for a first person shooter with giant bugs, giant guns, and squad-based tactics. Despite this, there’s been a shocking lack of decent games based on the franchise. Dotemu and Auroch Digital are looking to change that.
The closest thing we’ve seen lately to a “Starship Troopers” game has been “Helldivers 2.” The title captures the satire, action, intensity, and excessiveness of all kinds the the film encapsulated. There’s also the EDF (Earth Defense Force) series of games that nail the bug shooting action, but don’t quite have that patriotic absurdity distilled to its American essence. Enter Auroch Digital to set things right.
Sony released a trailer for “Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War” with an intro by Casper van Dein, who stared as Johnny Rico in the 1997 film. The game looks exactly like you’d expect. Soldiers running around, guns blasting, and giant bugs exploding into goo. It’s a first person shooter modeled after a classic kind of experience that was common in the PlayStation 2 and 3 era, or the Xbox and Xbox 360 if that was your place to game.
A lot of shooting type games have fallen into the camps of looter shooters that are focused on constant upgrades of weapons, or live service games that replace traditional levels with repeatable missions, deployments, and the lack of a traditional structured campaign. Just think of games like “Killzone” or the original “Halo.” You move along the game from mission to mission that have beginnings and endings. Auroch Digital was also behind “Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun,” that was met with positive reviews for being a simpler but impactful kind of shooter set in that franchise’s world.
Even though PlayStation was showing off the trailer, the game will also be available on Xbox Series consoles, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
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