GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The creators of free-to-play gacha RPG Duet Night Abyss have ...

Ok, so I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I think I just found my favorite game of 2026 so far. No, it's not the freshly released Marathon, despite my affinity for competitive shooters. It's not ...

2026 is looking great for fans of gacha games, as hyped titles such as Arknights: Endfield and The Seven Deadly Sins: Origins are set to release. From open-world action RPGs to urban open-world RPGs, ...

A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, the best gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and implant it into live-service videogames where players wish on banners to pull their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There once was a time when gacha games were seen as nearly taboo to play. Between their low production values, overt predatory monetization, and perceived lack of gameplay depth, playing a gacha game ...

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 ...