Gacha games grant players the option to spend money on in-game currency that can purchase randomized rewards, but this currency is also earnable for free while playing the game itself.

July 14, 2025: A lot of gacha games have released this year, huh? I've re-evaluated the list to reflect that. Unfortunately, Honkai Impact 3rd and Infinity Nikki are gone, as I no longer feel I ...

The Gacha Problem Of course, Genshin Impact is ultimately hamstrung by its relentless focus on monetization, which could have taken its best asset and makes it the game’s biggest weakness in ...

Even if the combat isn’t quite as flashy as in most recent gacha games, it still manages to be exciting and very rewarding through its layers of complexity and puzzles. Limbus Company continues ...

Gacha games need to motivate players to spend money on its gambling aspects, and keep spending for the longer term. I’m not saying Genshin has to fundamentally change the type of game it is.

That the game is free isn’t the most remarkable feature. This game is well within the “gacha” genre of mobile games, similar to what we call the “loot box” system in the West.

Gacha games got their start in 2012, though the genre is only now growing in popularity in the U.S. as Japanese mobile games make their way over to Western markets.

Gacha games like Zenless Zone Zero are the digital descendents of gachapon machines: you put money in, and hope that what you get in return is the thing you wanted, rather than a dud or something ...

However, in the world of gacha games, Pokemon TCG Pocket is a newcomer. And based on the latest batch monthly earnings estimates, it looks like one gacha game continues to outrank Pokemon TCG Pocket.

The lucrative sales method used in many Japanese free-to-play social games will be illegal as of July 1, though a voluntary ban will be in effect by the end of May.