Good idle clicker, good Trek writing, I’d pay for no ads!

‪It’s good for an idle clicker style game. Also love the writing, I feel like they captured the voices of the characters well. There’s elegance in the Lower Decks game being an idle clicker about menial tasks, but idle clickers only have so much depth. I want more game depth!‬ Even one or two more things where player choice matters over waiting would be very welcome. The events are too short (or milestones too high) to the point you have no chance to earn the milestone rewards before they end without paying money. I get the ranked rewards driving people to spend, but the milestones it’s just feel bads not getting them. Maybe aim for free players earning 75% of them instead of 50%? Then I’d be more tempted to spend a couple bucks to finish them off. Besides all that, other games of this style let you buy a no ads mode for like $10-20, absolutely more than you’re earning off my ads right now. I’d totally do that for this game, but it just isn’t offered as an option!

Kinda fun, but incomplete and buggy

This is a fairly fun idle game that’s a slight variation on this type of game (I call them zig-zag games, not sure if the genre has a name). But after a while progression gets very, very slow, which makes it boring. It seems to be incomplete, too, because if you go into the settings, about half the options are disabled. It doesn’t even connect to Game Center, which is a very basic thing for games to do. There are some interface bugs to where some elements will be behind others and you have to scroll to just the right place to interact with them. Plus, there are arrows that will scroll you to something you need to collect, or whatever, but they get stuck on the screen and will take you to a building that is not ready to collect. That gets really annoying because they flash, in an attempt to get your attention, and you basically can’t get rid of them. Don’t even bother with events. Only the top 20 players get a decent reward and you won’t get anywhere near that unless you spend lots and lots of money. Even if you start an event the moment it becomes available and have the multiplier from watching ads going the whole time, and do nothing else in life but play this game, you’ll still not be anywhere near the top 20. They need to break it down by percentages, rather than just the top 20 players. As more people play this game, casual players will have absolutely no hope of ever getting anything from events.

Great beta test.

This is a lovely game. It is a lot of fun and captures the spirit of the show well. It is, however, a beta test game. There is nothing in place to save the game so that you can play you current game on a different device. There are grayed out buttons indicating a future feature. I was considering an iPhone upgrade but I would have to start over from the beginning. I am almost finished with Episode 15. I have made a few small purchases which will be gone trying to go to a new device. I discovered this trying to play my game on my iPad. The game looks great on an iPad. But no progress will move to any other device. The developers are aware that this is an issue but don’t have saves or game center implemented yet. It should be labeled a beta test with some features not working at this time. I would also suggest that until this is working, AVOID ANY IN-GAME PURCHSES!!! If you change devices, all progress is lost.

Honestly a nice experience

Didn’t annoy by inundating itself with pop-ups and in-app purchases. I LOVE that this game isn’t ridden with ads like fleas; Any interaction with them is done at the player’s discretion, which is a choice I respect in the face of a game that does want to draw an honest profit. Another game might make them appear by force as a marketing tool. There is character in choosing otherwise. Progression doesn’t fall off even later in the game. The steps forward feel quantifiable and impactful. Having played many idle games this does not suffer from over-complication or blind greed. The attention put into this game’s story feels more akin to a passion project that reasonably wants to make back the funding it was granted. It’s just an honest way of producing something for a large scale IP like Star Trek, and it’s nice that they did a good job of it. Also helps that it has loved characters in Lower Decks’ unique art style. It is a collection I admit to enjoy building.

Game unable to load, lost all progress and purchases

The game is a good game if it loads. I had played it previously and reached moderately high level, after also purchasing some packs and reaching certain achievements with the characters. However, the game eventually stopped working for me, saying that it needed to download new assets but wasn’t online and needed to be (despite the fact that every other app and browser on my phone was able to access the internet). The only way I was able to overcome this problem was to uninstall the app, and re-download it, at which point about half the time the game successfully opened up. This meant that I lost all my progress and items purchased. at first, I was OK with this since it meant I was able to play the game again. However after eight or nine levels, the game stopped loading successfully. When starting up the app, it would go to the loading screen, spin for a while, reach approximately 25%, then fail to a black screen, and then back to the phones home screen. Now, 100% of the time the game fails to load

Really loving the game, but it needs some updates

Look I’ve only had the game for a week or so and I really enjoy it. The story is fun and I enjoy seeing all of my favorite below decks characters. But there are a few things I just can’t give it 5 stars for. First my biggest grievance is the deal system. I had been saving up my latinum to buy the Riker bundle but the game filled the queue with $10 bundles before I could save up enough and now I can’t access it. I also know for a fact it didn’t run out of time. It’s just inaccessible now. It’s a real bummer because I’m not above spending a couple dollars on things but I can’t justify $10 a bundle. My other grievance is the difficulty of the events. Really feels like pay to win which is just an unfortunate standard in mobile games anymore. But otherwise it’s a fun Star Trek game. You can tell the there’s people who care about Star Trek working on it

Pay gates and Wallet Warriors

So I already left a review for this. Basically the complaint was that during events, unless you shell out money, you’re going to be waaaay back in the standings. I get it, developers want to make money. The developer responded to this review saying they were going to remedy this to make it easier for people who can’t afford to shell out $20-30 per event to get higher in the standings (means better rewards). A few weeks later I can say this was a complete lie. As a matter of fact, it is now EVEN HARDER to climb the standings. Now I can’t even place about 170th place, which means no bonus rewards period. They now PAY GATE characters that are used to automate the scenarios in the events AND they increased the levels required for each character is unlock automation. I’ll have to stick to the main story from now on and leave the events to people who don’t care about wasting money on virtual (and literal) nothings.

Don't do it

Game claims to be an idle game which it is for the first few levels but as you grind your way through it becomes much more manual. Automating collection of merits at later stages requires certain levels of a particular character. Character upgrades requires so many chips of that character to upgrade it along with a secondary currency called dilithium. You are so slowly drip fed character shards and dilithium that it is nearly impossible to upgrade your characters without spending real money on micro transactions. Of course you can get 30 dilithium for free if you watch an ad. Want double earnings for 4 hours? Watch an ad! Want to triple the double earnings to 12 hours? That's 2 more ads. Devs are consistently running events that usually fail in some way. I only just completed my first event without some sort of game breaking bug. The Event area has its own separate ads to watch for bonuses, so, there's 4 more ads to watch to compete in the event.

This epic crossover will be brought to life in a limited-time event in both the Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game and the Star Trek: Lower Decks mobile game...

Star Trek | Official Site Sat Mar 01 2025

CNW/ - East Side Games Group (TSX: EAGR) (OTC: EAGRF) ("ESGG" or the "Company") is excited to announce an unprecedented crossover between...

Canada Newswire Sat Mar 01 2025

Be part of a historic crossover between East Side Games' 'Doctor Who: Lost in Time' and 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' mobile games from August...

Doctor Who | Home Sat Mar 01 2025

Star Trek and Doctor Who's upcoming crossover was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con, but it probably wasn't the crossover that fans were...

Screen Rant Sat Mar 01 2025

Star Trek and Doctor Who will crossover within the already existing mobile games Doctor Who: Lost in Time, and Star Trek: Lower Decks — The...

Inverse Sat Mar 01 2025

Doctor Who: Lost in Time and Star Trek: Lower Decks are set to cross over; Both developed by Eastside Games, the two titles will see...

Pocket Gamer Sat Mar 01 2025

The worlds of Star Trek and Doctor Who will combine in the mobile games, Star Trek: Lower Decks and Doctor Who: Lost in Time. East Side...

Licensing.biz Sat Mar 01 2025

The free-to-play mobile game features the style and humour that has captivated the animated show's audience, transporting players into the Star Trek Universe.

Proactive financial news Sat Apr 29 2023

East Side Games Group is excited to announce an unprecedented crossover between Star Trek and Doctor Who, where two beloved sci-fi universes...

Laughing Place Sat Mar 01 2025

East Side Games Group has announced a massive collaboration coming to two mobile games soon during San Diego Comic-Con, an event that will...

ComicBook.com Sat Mar 01 2025