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, ...

Some of the most popular video games of the current decade are part of a genre known as gacha, but what really does this word ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While the term “gacha game” might be a bit niche, the model itself has become increasingly popular ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

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 can ...

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 ...

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 ...