Star Trek™ Timelines is a squad-based RPG for mobile devices that focuses on character collection and starship combat within the Star Trek franchise.
Product velocity
Intense
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#135
▲8Role Playing · grossing
Sentiment
3.8
106k reviews
Nemesis
Star Wars™: Galaxy of Heroes
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Players hire the game for deep-lore immersion and the satisfaction of building a cross-era crew, a loop that rewards daily engagement.
For Star Trek fans and mobile RPG players interested in strategy, fleet management, and character collection.
What does it look like?
Key features
Collect and manage characters from multiple Star Trek series with unique combat skills.
Build and upgrade a fleet of iconic vessels.
Collaborate with other players to upgrade starbases and compete in events.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on IAP for character and ship acquisition, supplemented by ad inventory in the free tier.
Velocity
Intense developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: intense.
Who built it?
Tilting Point
13+ apps tracked · Role Playing
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate long-term players value the deep star trek lore and character collection mechanics that reward daily engagement and responsive customer support team helps resolve individual account issues and missing event rewards for active players, but report unskippable animations added in the latest update significantly increase the time required for repetitive daily tasks.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Long-term players value the deep Star Trek lore and character collection mechanics that reward daily engagement
- Responsive customer support team helps resolve individual account issues and missing event rewards for active players
- Unskippable animations added in the latest update significantly increase the time required for repetitive daily tasks
71 of 582 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Star Trek™ Timelines
How's the Role Playing market?
Star Trek™ Timelines holds a presence in the Role Playing category, ranking #166 Grossing in the US. The gap between its established franchise appeal and recent negative sentiment trends signals a risk to long-term monetization.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Electronic Arts
Both titles dominate the licensed sci-fi squad-RPG space, competing directly for the time and wallet share of players seeking deep collection mechanics within iconic cinematic universes.
- Offers a more robust and highly competitive Fleet Arena mode compared to Timelines' ship combat.
- Maintains a significantly higher content release cadence, keeping the meta fresh for long-term players.
- Leverages massive EA-backed live service infrastructure to support large-scale guild raids and community events.
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Key takeaways for Star Trek™ Timelines
Where is it heading?
Casual RPG traffic is consolidating around fresh entrants, and the lack of technical stability leaves Timelines exposed to churn. The current decline in sentiment signals that the core loop is losing its competitive edge against titles with faster update cadences and better performance hygiene.
- UI regressions in the latest update (unskippable animations) erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- Frequent server errors and loading failures prevent users from accessing their accounts, accelerating churn pressure into Q2.
The SWOT
- Deep-lore character collection mechanics reward daily engagement
- Education partnerships untapped as B2B distribution
Next best moves
Add skip-animation toggle in settings because unskippable animations are the top complaint → improve daily retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The game's reliance on deep-lore collection is a double-edged sword…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Competitive Fleet Arena mode (available in Galaxy of Heroes but missing here)
Since the last report: The report identifies a persistent decline in user sentiment driven by unresolved technical friction and unskippable animations, alongside a narrowing of identified feature gaps.
Bottom line
Star Trek™ Timelines retains franchise fans through deep lore, but technical instability and unskippable animations erode the daily habit, so the team must prioritize quality-of-life fixes over new monetization events to stabilize the player base.
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