diff --git a/games/star_traders/Makefile b/games/star_traders/Makefile
index bb958312be87..0e1185187478 100644
--- a/games/star_traders/Makefile
+++ b/games/star_traders/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	star_traders
-DISTVERSION=	7.20
+DISTVERSION=	7.21
 CATEGORIES=	games
 MASTER_SITES=	https://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/unix/
 DISTNAME=	trader-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	petteri.valkonen@iki.fi
 COMMENT=	Simple text-based game of interstellar trading
 WWW=		https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
-USES=		iconv ncurses tar:xz
+USES=		iconv ncurses pkgconfig tar:xz
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${DISTNAME}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		NLS
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	NLS
 OPTIONS_SUB=		yes
 NLS_USES=		gettext-runtime
 NLS_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--disable-nls
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/star_traders/distinfo b/games/star_traders/distinfo
index 27096719f034..06e166fa0434 100644
--- a/games/star_traders/distinfo
+++ b/games/star_traders/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1711991778
-SHA256 (trader-7.20.tar.xz) = bad368c471d7f4c371fbe8f5da24872f9e3ad609ddb7dad0e015c960c88b3aa9
-SIZE (trader-7.20.tar.xz) = 689256
+TIMESTAMP = 1779209514
+SHA256 (trader-7.21.tar.xz) = 541d1180dde04173c071d5c59eaf72a6572f8dfc8065e184eaf7d14bccd0257d
+SIZE (trader-7.21.tar.xz) = 752252