Remember the feeling when you put in a token at a machine in your local arcade, watching as a mechanical claw grabs a random prize out of a pool of them that’s yours for the taking? If you said yes, ...

While the term “gacha game” might be a bit niche, the model itself has become increasingly popular in recent years. These games tend to be free-to-play, but with lottery-style random in-game items ...

I’ve tried my fair share of gacha games, and even gotten hooked on a few — I’m still salty to this day that I’ve never pulled a Kitasan Black card in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. While it is technically ...

Gacha games can be quite divisive. Rather than a genre of game, gacha games are technically just a payment model; typically, they're free-to-play games where you spend money on premium currency to ...

The gacha space in 2026 is bigger (and louder) than ever. If Genshin Impact is still the benchmark for “open-world gacha done right,” it’s also sparked a wave of games that chase different flavors: ...

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C.M. Edwards is a writer currently employed by Valnet as a GameRant lists writer. He has been working professionally as a writer and editor for the past seven years in multiple fields, including comic ...

With some gacha games, it can feel like a requirement to fork over cash to enjoy them properly – usually for some sort of in-game cosmetic or the chance of nabbing a rare skin. It’s not always the ...

This information comes from a forum update from the developers of Rememento: White Shadow, where it shared details about the game’s upcoming 1.4 update. Among the translated details, one gacha gamer ...

Silver Palace is the latest gacha game that is vying for your attention, and here’s why it needs to be on your radar. Since its May 13 reveal, Silver Palace has caused quite a stir within the gacha ...

There's a new gacha game on the scene, and it's so obviously copying some of the biggest anime around, all you can do is laugh. Is creativity dead? Well, no, there's so much good stuff coming out ...

Whether you play gacha games or not, you’ve likely heard the term used before. Yet, while gacha games are commonplace in the video games industry, not everyone knows what they are, nor the history ...