Star Trek Timelines Reviews

by Nbamatt

Game is alright and easy as far as gameplay. Truly being successful is a completely different story. If you want to compete in events and any other game mode and do well you MUST spend money and a lot of it. I’ve spent more than I’d like to say and still struggle to get the top 1k in events to get the legendary characters in a weekly basis. They keep making the newer characters stronger and slowly phasing the old ones out to mediocrity.

Don’t get me started on there trash that is customer service. They stole from 1000’s of players after the 4 July 2018 debacle. They were mistakenly giving out free currency instead of selling characters with that currency. People went to it in droves to get the currency to buy character packs. They took back everything and more from players!!! They advertise stuff you might or might not get to get you to spend more $$$. If you make an error or mistake it’s tough luck on your part, there general response is there is nothing they can do. But if they mess up they for sure will do something. Customer Service rude.

I only play this game because I have so much money in it at this point. Don’t waste your time or money on this crap!!!

by Ninjaorasleep

This game is a not so subtly disguised video gambling game. All games want to make money. That’s the goal. But because Star Trek has always had this undercurrent of altruism, it’s difficult to associate it with something set out to capitalize on dopaminergic responses.

As with Pokémon, this game tickles the part of the brain that wants to gamble and collect them all and keep playing. At least with Pokémon Go they give you options to earn some virtual money and the game is still enjoyable without having to pay. Sure, some people say they can play without paying. That takes patience - like the willingness to sift through the discount CDs in a dollar store. And it’s not fun. You are looking at graphics of fake parts. They don’t even move! A game for a console costs between $10-$60. People spend a LOT more on this game in order to have play time and in order to succeed at competitions.

You will win by not winning. People who “win” at this game have spent a lot of money. What will it mean in the greater scheme of a person’s life when their epitaph reads something like, “They ranked #1 in the Gauntlet in Star Trek Timelines”?

by Larry Chambers

As a huge Star Trek fan, this game was cool for about 2 hours. I liked getting beloved characters added to my crew, and the missions had interesting story lines. Then the pay-to-win mechanic got shoved in my face as I ran out of the necessary currency to play any more missions. Space combat is the equivalent of watching the computer fly two ships around while you press a few buttons (I taught a small child to win the space battles for me in about 30 seconds). Upgrading your crew in order to be competitive quickly became a laborious task of repeating the same text-based missions over and over again in order to hopefully get the required rewards that appear at random. I would be willing to pay $10 for an app like this that lets me kill a few hours. But this game quickly demands hundreds or even thousands of real world dollars in order to advance in any meaningful way. Just to get a second starship would take weeks of grinding, repetitive play. The game was also very confusing initially because it offers no tutorials and has a very confusing interface with buttons all over the place.

by Pragyandeb

As a long time fan of Star Trek, this is a great game that is potentially loads of fun. But the issue is that the developer, Disruptor Beam (DB) is more interested in constantly running events (every week from Thursday-Monday, and often longer during holidays) and trying adding features without making sure they work to begin with. This makes playing the game a very frustrating endeavor with random bugs and things not working the way they are supposed to. Their quick fixes often makes things worse. In addition, their customer service is horrible, with CS taking weeks to respond to simple issue. And even when they do respond, they tend to send canned responses requiring further lengthen back-and-forth. This has not been helped by the fact that they recently laid off a bunch of people making things even worse.

Again, the game has loads of potential if the developer can get its act together. They need to get the basics right instead of trying to constantly sell overprices event packs. Long term they will make more money by keeping players happy and committed to the game.

by Snacksalot

The game is okay. You are supposed to collect whichever characters you want, but are limited as to how many you can have unless you spend cash. You'll get offered a whole lot of characters, but can keep less than half. The pricing system is very odd. The only way to have 5 star characters maxed is to spend a silly amount of real money. Very shameless. $4/month will give you daily dilithium. You need dilithium to get characters and equipment you need to advance. The game is a great time waster, but it lacks in being fun and exciting. I was a beta tester for this so I've been playing for 2 years and I'm still waiting for it to get fun. Customer service now takes 1 week to 10 days to respond to issues. I am going to delete this very soon as it no longer holds my interest. They are way too into Discovery. I have buyers remorse wishing I didn't spend all that money trying to get Borg characters that I was never going to be able to get enough of to max out. After 2 years I was able to get a 5 star character up to to 2 stars. There's no way I can hang around for another 3 just to finally be able to use Judge Q. There are characters they released one time and you never saw again - no way to get to 5 stars. This is confirmed by customer service and asking when other Convergence Day Quarks have been released other than the first time for example. Good bye.

by Tib Of ST

Ok to start with, if you know your Trek(s) this game will probably still stump you with some really obscure characters. The missions though are still repetitive and doesn’t really make you feel like you are accomplishing anything. WORST is the cash grab, shown nowhere more visibly perhaps in their “free” daily spin of the wheel for a reward. I have played this for years now and have NEVER won anything good on this. Worse still, if you pay for their exponentially increasingly expensive 2nd, 3rd, etc wheel spins with VERY pricey dilithium, you still don’t win anything approaching the value of what you’ve spent. I never did get any of what I spent my thousands of dilithium on. The same goes for their premium packs but you can, rarely, get something of value there. Working your way for months nets you a little honor which can be spent on other valuable things, but good luck, because it takes forever to earn it and nothing to spend it. The economy is out of whack in favor of the fool and his (or her) money, which has, I admit, on occasion been me! I still cannot heartily recommend this game until Disruptor Beam is visited by Dickin’s spirits and loosens it’s purse strings a bit.

by Datalore17

I love Star Trek so much! I grew up on it which is why I want this game to be everything. It has a lot going for it but it is sorely lacking in some areas. First, it seems like the developers do not care about their customers and how much Star Trek means to them. There are some shady things going on. For instance, they have an arbitrary cap of 1,000 unique items and after 7 days if you are over that limit they start deleting your inventory. What they haven’t told anyone is that even if you try and build something to use up the unique inventory there is a bug that won’t use up lower level items. They are shady. The gauntlet is another aspect of shadiness. It is so rigged that even if you should beat the other player you don’t especially if it is the third time when your supposed to get a gift. Second, this is a collecting game even if the developers don’t want to admit it. People are here, collecting the cards and the developers are milking every sucker for all the money in the universe. It’s tempting. We love Star Trek and want the characters. Slow down on the introductions. Third, the ship schematics are useless and are just sitting there taking up space. Plus, they are a common get in packs which is annoying. Figure out additional ways of using them. In summation, I love Star Trek and I like this game. Just fix the issues and make it seem like you care about the fan base and customers.

by Babybull2

I m a big fan of Star Trek and this game is just great. I've taken off two stars for two reasons. I'm a beginner and as a beginner the game is daunting with no real explanation of how things are best done. For instance when I get to the start of a ship battle some tips or information comes on the screen but disappears too quickly, so I get the first three words, not very helpful. The other star is because as someone who thinks logically, I know I'm never going to own this game so if I ever spend real money on it, it would have to be for a very good reason and it's not likely, so when I see the characters and boosts available to the players willing to spend it's frustrating. I get it that you have to make money and I'm really glad some people will spend, but it's still frustrating. Because of the fact that I'm a beginner when I entered my first event I was completely under prepared, I still have entered into some of the contests, but good grief I get plastered which is very discouraging. I'm really impressed that these reviews are actually responded to and as a big fan of Star Trek I will keep playing and see where it goes, I also think it should be as enjoyable to a solo player as it can be to a social player- there are plenty of people who like staying solo. Thanks for creating this game and making it available to players like me (with virtually stitched pockets!) :-))

by MULEZSTI

I’ve been playing this game since the day after it was introduced, going on almost 4 years now. I’m not going to lie, it isn’t as fun as it used to be. There’s nothing new, nothing exciting, and everywhere you turn, you have to spend a decent amount of money to get anywhere decent in the game. I still log in, still do my chores (dailies). I just wish It was cheaper, and it wasn’t the same thing all the time. Every time there’s an update, it seems nothing works right. It’d be great if they had a Q/A section that could identify problems before releases. There’s so much more I could say about this game but that’s for another time. I do like it, somewhat, what can I say, I’m a Trekkie. And it has given me the platform to meet people in my fleet I would of never met who I call my friends now. I just wish it could get better. Listen to your fans/player base DB.

Update, the citation sale was a good idea/effort. I hope they’d keep that up.

by LoganWolfsbane

First of all, this game was obviously made by people who grew up watching TOS, for some, or TNG for others, and maybe even Enterprise for some. It's chock full of the bronze-level-hardness sci-fi and semi-plausible plotlines of the TV serieses. There's a lot to love here, as you procure a Borg scout ship and staff it with, say, Kirk, Data and Florist Q (yes, that is a character you can acquire) and boldly go where thousands have gone before.

But what's not to love is the absurdly vast number of characters in the game, with an equally absurdly vast array of possible traits and skills, and how often you will run into an objective on an Away mission that is locked to all 50 of your crewmen, except for that ONE level ten 1-star character that you never bothered to train or equip because, well, they're USELESS, except for that one Away mission that prevents you from getting all three stars. And you're going to keep running into that, again and again and again, unless you pony up large stacks of cash. And you're going to get your petunias handed to you in ship-to-ship combat again and again and again by people who have the cash flow to have the top-level ships in each category. I had fun, but I ended up bashing my face against the rocks of low income too much to keep going. It's all about the Benjamins, baby.

by Stoddard Ssssss

I will be fair. This game is addictive to me but I am hoping the developers take some feedback as constructive. I love collecting characters but to get quality characters is limited. The shard collection system yields very weak items and characters. It is really not worth it to collect them. The ship collection system/leveling is unbalanced with the characters. For example I have several blue, purple and fortunately gold at 50 or above but the ship missions limit me as I only have one star ships 4 months I. PlYing daily. I understand that if I pay I will have better opportunities. What bothers me most about this game is that when I watch videos to collect rewards like at the Dani wheel nothing is given to me. The other game I play is Marvel Strike a force and when they realize there are errors they send fair prizes like significant energy. Or orbs to redeem character shards. I watch TNG, voyager, and deep space over and over and I love the premise of the game. I just wish the developers could send out some freebies, some hooks to keep the game exciting for FTP... I may pay like I did in strike force a year in when I found something worthy to pay for. Developers,.. you are on the w precipice of something great something Addictive and possibly lucrative a little restructuring and you are golden. - Long live and prosper!

by Jeff204vk

With this review, I am ending my months of playing this game and moving on. I have immortalized a character, and that seems like a good ending point. I am not quitting because the game is too expensive. Despite some criticisms I have heard of this game, I have been able to assemble a set of the highest-level ships and 5* characters without paying anything. This does take patience, but it is eventually possible. The problem is that the end stage of the game gets grindy. There is one type of event involving making the same items over and over, another type for fighting the same 5 ship battles over and over, a third type for running the same few shuttle missions over and over, etc. I have noticed myself repeating actions without even bothering to read text, a sure sign of grinding. I’m not sorry I tried this game, though. There’s plenty of Star Trek content for those who want it, and the graphics are fine for this type of game. There is just a point at which it’s time to try something new.

by Mev168

While I continue to play this game after several weeks, IMHO, it is "frustrating" in some respects that make me not recommend it:

1. I have found myself playing the same 2-6-click episode/map 7 (boring) times in a row (with or without 1-click "warping") -- trying to obtain a component "reward" to help "equip" a character -- and not receive it even though there are only 4-5 possible "rewards" for playing it. Meanwhile, i ended up with 8+ units each of a couple of other components. It's ridiculous.

2. I find I have to wait 5+ hours for my supply of "chronitons" to rebuild before i can continue playing -- unless I want to buy them at prices that seem way too steep to me given how quickly one can use them and repeat the same "didn't get it again" experience described in the prior bullet. It feels like I'm spending more time waiting to "play" the game than actually playing it.

3. Every time i click on a small subset of my crew members, the game plays a short audio clip of dialogue spoken by that character. But, for some characters, I've heard only one clip! It "gets old" quickly. I'm somewhat glad most characters lack dialogue but really wish the developers had put in a little more effort picking out clips.

Short Narration by "Q" was fun.

This might be the first "pay as u go" / "game as a service" game I've played. I much prefer the "buy it once, play the entire plot at your own pace" model.

Ymmv

by Exhausted And Broke

The game is fun and addicting, but is very expensive if you want to be relevant. There is no way to win, or ever collect them all, but collecting crew helps you do better in events which are designed to collect crew. The vicious cycle makes sure the House always is the ultimate winner. It is a great way to spend your free time, but never ending year round events make sure it eventually feels more like a job than entertainment.

Updated: A year later, the game has done more to ease the strong fisted hold on its rewards. They have great customer service and are constantly looking to improve. Still, I would rather be an investor than a player, as they continue to collect money hand-over-fist while my pleasure at playing remains moderate. The money they bring in from someone like me who only “kinda enjoys play” shows their model works. With that, I’ll take another day.

by Battlestar5

So, I have been playing as a Free Player for a little over 3 Years & so far I have unlocked some pretty good ships and characters. Its amazing how the developers have conceived the various versions of almost each and every character in the known in the Star Trek Universe including the CBS Timeline Characters and Ships as well so Bravo to the Devs for getting those into the game. In addition yo the Next Gen Characters, I would like to see more of the Next Gen Movie ships like the Akira Class, Saber Class, Steamrunner Class, and the Norway Class Ships. The Oberth Class Starship was quite my favorite in the TV Series plus the Ambassador Class Starship - like the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C. Skirmish events are my favorite, and the Faction Missions are rewarding as well. The Supply Events are the most challenging since they will send you around the galaxy looking for supplies and that can exhaust some your resources but they are rewarding. Overall, Bravo to the Developers - I Do Like This Game 🙂👍🏻🚀

by Galaxy Class A-hole

The detailing, on the ships and characters, is unbelievably accurate. They way you’ve tied every ship and character from every show and movie into one seamless storyline is incredible. I really like how you can really study the ships, go from world to world at anytime and complete side goals for rewards. I’ve been playing for the better part of 2 years and I have to say, I’m impressed. Looking at any character takes me back to the show and story. That’s where it’s at for me. The pvp ship battles aren’t bad either :) Your generosity in the game is unending. It's a great thing you have here. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I write this as I’m putting my 8 week old daughter to bed. I guess you never know, we could have another “pointy eared, green blooded hobgoblin” fan in our family. Hopefully your game will still be around for her to experience. An already long review, so I will simply say “Good luck” and thank you.
Admiral Tomalak

by Simulation: Fu3aR2016+4

Longtime player, probably long time before I feel done with this one. I haven’t read ANY other reviews of this game, I came straight from a link within the game.
There’s plenty of things to do in the game, depending on how much time you want to spend grinding a few tasks. Probably feels a little repetitive for some people but for me it works because you actually are getting a fair amount of resources for tasks that only take a couple minutes each day.
You can definitely play this game without dropping a ton of $$ but you are best off at least purchasing the monthly ‘gem’ thing for around four dollars so you can purchase a couple things that can only be gotten with ‘gems’
There’s some PvP and some space battles and weekly events where you can pick up some extra crew members.
Bottom line, I really like this game, I play daily and it’s at least worth a try if you like Star Trek and/or strategy.

by Whatever It Takes!!!

I’m a long time fan of Star Trek - when I first downloaded this game (a few days after initial launch) I discovered the paywall and decided I’ll play as a free player only. I didn’t expect much besides collecting some lower grade cards and maybe having some fun as long as it lasted. The “Star Trek” association drew me in. The daily awards give out some good things including a super rare card, in the coming months more additions to the game were introduced allowing people like me (playing free) to slowly collect upper tier (super rare and legendary) cards. Other additions like voyages give one the ability to collect more pieces like chronitons so you can run more missions. There’s a strong player community and forum where players get tips on how to play. Customer support is responsive. I’ve never needed to contact them but depending on your situation I’ve heard they can be great or not so great. It depends. Anyway, if you’re willing to put in the time, you don’t need to spend a penny to build a strong crew. I’ve done it. You just need to have patience.

by Abukoff

The best Star Trek MMORPG on mobile. The best Star Trek Experience since the one in Vegas shut down. Seriously, until someone makes a Star Trek dungeon crawler or top-down tactical game, this is as good a Star Trek mobile game as you will ever get. A little limited in visual frills (I’d love to see the interior of the Romulan ship my crew is moving through!) but that opens up the possibilities of the game. The feeling of command is real because you are choosing the right crew to send on away missions. You are responsible for training and advancing them. I’d like to see real faction events, where not only can you support just one faction, but you can only use crew from one faction. Imagine a true Klingon vs Federation event. But overall, the best mobile Trek game there is, or is likely to be. Graphics are top notch on my iPhone 7 and iPad Pro. I’ve found support (through the website, submitting a ticket) to be great. Some delays when there is heavy traffic. Could do with new episodes though. PLEASE. All in all, the most all encompassing Trek experience you’ll find on mobile.

by Maverick42689

I love Star Trek Timelines!! As a devoted Trekkie(especially The Next Generation), I love everything Star Trek! This game is a lot of fun. I normally don't like games where you have limited energy (Chronitons in STL) but, this game is still awesome and they give away energy (Chronitons) all the time. A lot of times what I do is wait like a month or two, then comeback and find a bunch of messages giving out like 500 or 1000 Chronitons (energy). Anyways, the sheer detail of this game is truly amazing! All the little pieces of equipment for your characters are all from the various Star Trek iterations. It's the little things like Earl Grey Tea(Captain Picard's drink of choice) and Raktajino(Klingon Coffee) that really make this game a must play for any Star Trek fans! Some of things even I can't remember what they are/where they're from! So, make it your "continuing mission to seek out" all the fun to be had in this game!!!!!

by LA Local 47

Star Trek Timelines integrates all characters and storylines into one unique plot. Time, as we know it, has all converged into one concurrent place and all characters exist in the same space and time. They also introduced inter dimensional existence with alternative realities existing in this same time line. It is a great concept and opens the door for many possibilities. The problem is the game play. It is very limited. Your job, it seems, is to complete tasks and earn points to build or develop your characters abilities. They have some 1,000 characters they have plucked from real episodes or movies and many from the developers creative imagination. You find them in various places in the game play and “advance” them by completing game tasks. The “tasks” are not very interactive. You send characters on trips and if they are successful, they bring back trinkets that may level up your characters or may not. There is no way to “win.” It just endless tasks that will help you build characters.