Okay, I’ve been deleting games for a week. Let’s celebrate by deleting one that’s gonna hurt… a little bit, at least.
I started playing Star Trek Lower Decks Mobile pretty recently; within the last few weeks, really. And as much as I enjoy the cartoon graphics, the wacky scenarios that unfold in the story chapters, and the irreverent Star Trek-ness of it all, its ultimate undoing is that it’s a resource management game.
Yeah… those.
Resource management games are designed to keep you in front of them for as long as possible. You want to automate a task? Earn just a little more money (or in the case of this game, merit points) so you can afford it! Wanna upgrade a specific character so you can unlock the automation in the first place? Earn more money! And so on.
What hurts most is that I’m starting to watch Lower Decks, and I do enjoy the overall atmosphere of this game as it relates to the show. But I’ve dabbled in enough resource management games to know that I’ll only get more annoyed the further I go into this one. It’s almost an inevitability for these kinds of games with me.
So, even though I know I’ll miss this one, I’m going to dispense with it now, as I know otherwise I’ll spend way too much time waiting on front of my phone to get just one more achievement, unlock one more capability, obtain one more character.
Yep. Beam me outta this one. Take care, Lower Decks Mobile. You were fun at first, but your nature betrays you’ll be bad for me.
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