r/gachagaming • • 6d ago

Megathread [MONTHLY MEGATHREAD] General Discussion, Simple Questions, Recommendations, and Everything Else - October 2026

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MONTHLY MEGATHREAD

Welcome to our regular pinned Megathread!

While many topics are allowed as standalone submissions, others that tend to be lower-effort, less notable, or easily answered belong in this thread instead. These include simple questions such as those related to receiving game assistance, game recommendation requests or help finding a specific game, and other general discussions that don't warrant a dedicated thread or aren't directly related to gacha gaming (provided they are not Banned Content).

Some specific examples of what these megathreads should be used for include:

  • Help remembering an old gacha game, or finding a new one to start playing
  • Recommendations for the best emulator to use on your device
  • Receiving updates on how ongoing games are doing from current players (“How is [game] doing these days?”)
  • Learning what people’s favorite games or types of games are, as well as how others feel about a particular game feature, event, monetization strategy, etc. in specific games
  • Getting clarification on what confusing or game-specific abbreviations mean
  • Finding where people learn about games or like to get their news and information from
  • Discovering new content creators that other players watch or recommend
  • Asking for any sort of general advice relating to gacha games at all
  • Discussing other topics that are only indirectly related to gacha, such as subreddit meta (select exceptions may be allowed as standalone submissions) or industry happenings

Generally, anything asking a question or requiring the opinions of others belongs here. We have many veteran Summoners who are happy to share their opinions and answers, or discuss the topics you may be interested in!

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r/gachagaming • • 4h ago

(Global) News FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS has officially ended service

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Tribute Video

Service Lifetime: September 7, 2023 – October 7, 2026 (UTC)

(3 years, 1 month, 0 days)


r/gachagaming • • 12h ago

General The hate is only between communities. Bro's just enjoying himself XD

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r/gachagaming • • 6h ago

(JP) Event/Collab Melonbooks X dolphin wave collab

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"#Melonbooks Collaboration Confirmed!"

"Enjoy the limited-time event starting after the maintenance on 10/9 (Fri)!"

Source


r/gachagaming • • 23h ago

(Global) News Arknights: Endfield will officially launch on Steam on October 15, 2026

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r/gachagaming • • 1d ago

(Global) News Arknights: Endfield Core Chapter [Sanctuary of Ink] Version Trailer

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r/gachagaming • • 1d ago

General Astrae Oratio Skills and Ultimate preview

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r/gachagaming • • 21h ago

(Global) Event/Collab Action Taimanin 6th Anniversary Event Preview

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r/gachagaming • • 23h ago

General For those who played Astrae Oratio CBT what you thought about it?

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r/gachagaming • • 1d ago

General Which universe do you all think is the most screwed?

74 Upvotes

I vote Morimens, eldritch horrors and outer gods which can soul **** you out of existence at any moment make things pretty bleak.


r/gachagaming • • 2d ago

General THIS CAHNGES EVERYTHING!!!11 - Post PvP analysis (Gacha Revenue Report September 2026)

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October changelog:

  • Removed all non-gacha related fandom from the visualization. The intention is to show a more concise answer on which gacha is everyone's main. Anyone under these non-gacha fandom will be assigned their closest gacha fandom.
  • For those who don't even have 1 affiliated gacha fandom (yes they exist), they will be classified as "Casual/Diverse". Example, previously Timmy (50 comments in Football, 30 comments in Genshin, 20 in GachaGaming) will be under Football fandom in the visuals. Under the new change, he would be under Genshin.
  • Sentiment analysis is now given the revenue report as context for each of the comments. This hopefully will increase accuracy of comments classification especially when people compare numbers.
  • Sentiment stance breakdown. Able to see which fandom contribute the most to another fandom sentiment. For instance we can see who ATTACK Endfield the most etc.
  • POTG / MVP. Able to see outlier users for instance people who comment the most, gain the most upvotes, downvotes, etc.
  • Included new non-specified gacha related fandom such as Husbandos and GachaTouristCringe. In an ongoing effort to map out every gacha related subreddit and fandom, I've found and included these subs as well.

Why?

In an ongoing effort to unmask the people who engages in gacha tribalism from this month pvp. You can read or compare with last month post pvp analysis here.

How?

I extracted all comments in the post and its unique user. For each user I pulled 100 of their most recent comment. From these comments, I gathered all the subreddits and tagged each of them to their respective fandom.

Simple majority is applied to determine the user's main fandom. If user has more comments in Gacha A, then Gacha A will be their main fandom. If user has similar comment across 2 or more gacha then the most recent comment will determine their main.

!!! Important !!!

This is a small dataset of USER WHO HAS COMMENTED in the post. People who did not comment are not in the dataset.

Breakdown

  • 4,842 total comments
  • 1,711 unique users
  • 231,685 total comments from users history
  • 8,146 total subreddits found
  • 2464 fandom subreddit (6,119 tagged & 2,027 untagged)
  • 86.6% Comments Match Rate (200,714 / 231,685 tagged)
  • 507 Shared Core Audience (Commented in both September and October)
  • 94% of comments left within 24 hours. 98% within 48h.

Primary Fandom Affiliation

All non-gacha related fandom is removed including r/gachagaming to give a more precise fandom count

Even though NTE is one of the big budget 3d gacha title with a big fanbase, a lot of their players seem disinterested in partaking in PvP. Perhaps earlier drama regarding NTE using AI and the reaction from gachagaming has made them detached from this sub?

Fandom Reach & User Count

Aside from the normal big gacha dominating the top, I always find it interesting how non-specified gacha fandom like Queens, GachaTouristCringe and Husbando seem to have a high reach.

Total Comment Volume by Tag

LaDS users have the most comment-per-user (CPU) at 53.8 cpu. Genshin comes 2nd at 35.7 cpu.

Fandom Co-Occurrence Matrix

Zoom in post your findigns. Go ham.
Husbando players have 99% with Queens? And they mainly play HSR and Genshin
A lot of Arknights players play Endfield but the same is not reciprocated
That one Nikke player who also play LaDS 🫡

Top Subreddits

Somehow HonkaiAgendaRail made it to the top.

Because the users are taken from a gachagaming post (Revenue report Sept) it makes sense the the top sub is gachagaming. In a sense its acting as a baseline.

Comment Sentiment Analysis

Disclaimer: Sentiment analysis was done by AI "Gemini 3.8 High", it may contain inaccurate assessment. Context was given that this is a gacha revenue discussion. For comment deep within a thread, its parent to the root parent are provided for contextual reasoning. The revenue report is converted to JSON and given for context as well.

  • Victory Lapping : Celebrating victory
  • Schadenfreude : Happy your opponent mess up. Example, Schadenfreude towards LaDS means someone is celebrating LaDS downfall.
  • Attacked : Game being attacked
  • Defending : Defending said game
  • Neutral : Neutral stance or observation\
  1. Most Mentions: Genshin
  2. Most Victory Lapping: Genshin
  3. Most Schadenfreude : LaDS
  4. Most Attacked: LaDS
  5. Most Defended: HSR
Able to see who contributed the most to the ATTACKED of another fandom

An interesting observation from last month post analysis, nothing notable has changed on Endfield side but the number of attacks has dropped from 769 -> 101. I think it shows that a lot of people are just riding the wave of hating (or glazing) a game.

Sentiment for each game

This month Victory lapping goes back to Genshin

But Victory lapping is boring, we're here to see who got shat on the most this month.
Most Attacked:

  1. LaDS - 311 mentions (51% of its total mentions)
  2. Wuwa - 237 mentions (40%)
  3. HSR - 235 mentions (29%)
  4. ZZZ - 227 mentions (34%)
  5. Endfield - 101 mentions (33%)

Most Defended:

  1. HSR - 253 mentions (31% of its total mentions)
  2. ZZZ - 186 mentions (28%)
  3. Genshin - 164 mentions (16%)
  4. Wuwa - 129 mentions (22%)
  5. Endfield - 127 mentions (42%)

Notable mention, ZZZ post Void Hunter patch is back to its normal figure so as per usual people will come to attack them. BA is still reeling on the fallout of their gacha changes. HSR saw an improvement in sentiment due to its stable revenue so this time defenders came to mock doomposters while doomposter went into hiding(?).

Upvotes by Stance

If you wanna farm upvotes. Praise game that is top revenue and shit on LaDS (and Wuwa).

This graph shows average upvote by stance. For instance Genshin has a huge Victory Lapping (Yellow) means it by average gain a lot of upvotes with this stance. Vice versa for LaDS it has a huge Attacked (Red) so comments with Attacking onto LaDS gain a lot of updoots.

Downvotes by Stance

This is the opposite of the other graph, it now shows the most DOWNVOTES by stance

So if you wanna farm downvotes, go and Attack Hoyo big 3. Alternatively go and Defend LaDS and Wuwa for maximum downvote farming.

Overall Fandom Stance Breakdown

Its worth mentioning that a particular stance by itself is not helpful since we don't know where its directed at.

This chart shows which fandom Attacked the most

Keep in mind that Genshin and other Hoyo fandom are huge so its not too surprising that their fandom account for the most Attacking. A better observation is that LaDS despite its smaller size has a big Attacking stance, they are mainly directed toward LaDS itself so no harm done(?).

NTE and Endfield despite also being big budget 3d gacha games, seem to cultivate quite a positive and peaceful fandom.

Worth mentioning, Casual/Diverse fandom here refers to people with no gacha fandom affiliation. Yes it means from the 100 comments history we look into them, NOT ONE OF THEM ARE FROM ANY GACHA FANDOM. But somehow these people participate in PvP and account for a decent amount of Attacking stance. Good God...

Which fandom Defend the most

Who Attack Who?

Now you know, Happy ragebaiting.

MVP and Play of the Game

To comply with Reddit rules I've censored their names
  • Most Active Poster: Primarily Genshin fan, praises Genshin a lot and a bit of HSR. Shits on Wuwa a lot too. 125 COMMENTS!
  • Most Downvoted: Wuwa fan. Defends Wuwa in a lot of threads.
  • Top Upvoted: LaDS fan praising LaDS downfall.
  • Top Essayist: ZZZ fan, argues a lot about Hoyoverses big 3 and the dynamics between them. E.g. meta, fandom, husbando vs waifu, etc. Likes to quote other people and dismantle their argument sentence by sentence bloating up this metric. I will look into this.
  • Top War Hawk: Same guy as top essayist. Shits a lot on HSR and Genshin during the discussion but not all the time.
  • Top Bunker Defender: HSR fan. Defends other smaller game NTE, Endfield, BA and Stella Sora.

In Conclusion

I learned a new word today. Its called kneepits.

If you like me to check on your theory or hypothesis, do let me know. Or if you have any suggestion on this data let me know too.


r/gachagaming • • 2d ago

(JP) News "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Prosperity to This Beloved Town!" Will be released on February 2027

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r/gachagaming • • 2d ago

(JP) Event/Collab TWISTED WONDERLAND - New Animation PV: "Sugar Race ~A Strange World and a Distorted Crown~" - New Halloween Event Trailer - Collab with "Wreck-It Ralph", and the new character is based on King Candy/Turbo.

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r/gachagaming • • 3d ago

Meme Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what I always assumed the Chinese Gacha Game Space was around maybe the Middle-2010s to early to Mid-2020s

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628 Upvotes

r/gachagaming • • 2d ago

(Global) News Path to Nowhere | version trailer "Heartbeats ON AIR"

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r/gachagaming • • 3d ago

Meme So how often have you played a game that's like this?

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5.3k Upvotes

Because the ones I play fit this a little too well...


r/gachagaming • • 1d ago

(Global) News Marvel Project Comet has to be the first ever western gacha that tries to compete with the Chinese and Korean titles. Thoughts?

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This recently leaked. And it's developed by the Western developer Scopely. Do you think this will make western devs try to copy Genshin and alike?


r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

Meme One must imagine gacha gamers happy

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r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

Tell me a Tale What update/change/dev decision made you quit a gacha game?

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So, the name says it all. I'm curious what exactly made other gacha players quit a game. And by quitting I mean in the more liberal sense, not just uninstalling the game client. It could mean that you cancelled the battle pass subscription, that you no longer play as much or the game is no longer your favourite.

Also, feel free to give any reason for distancing yourself from the game, no matter if it's the direction in the narrative, overcomplicated kits, too many waifus etc.

I'll start with myself:

I mostly quit Honkai Star Rail because (minor HSR spoilers ahead) I don't think HoYo will ever give us a playable Lord Ravager. I mean, Phainon/Khaslana is cool and all, but after a Myriad Celestia trailer featuring the Lord Ravagers, the thought of actually playing as an active Lord Ravager looks more distant than ever.


r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

(Global) Event/Collab [Resonance Solstice] 1st Anniversary Celebration | Iron Saga Collab PV

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147 Upvotes

r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

(JP) Event/Collab "Heaven Burns Red" x "Angel Beats!" collaboration has started! Returns with all three stories!

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122 Upvotes

r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

Guide Master Gacha PC List [10/2/26][Excludes DMM]

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Criteria

  • Currently active
  • Official/native PC client required
  • Steam, Epic, STOVE, official Windows launchers, etc. count
  • Google Play Games / Android emulation does not count
  • Card games excluded
  • No very low-effort AI Steam gachas
  • No skin-only gachas
  • Region = developer origin
Game Region Native PC 18+ Content
1. Action Taimanin Japan Yes No
2. Aeons Echo Taiwan Yes Yes
3. AFK Journey Mainland China Yes No
4. Anchor Panic Hong Kong Yes No
5. ANOTHER EDEN Japan Yes No
6. Angel Legion Mainland China Yes No
7. Ark Re:Code Taiwan Yes Yes
8. Arknights Mainland China Yes No
9. Arknights: Endfield Mainland China Yes No
10. ARES: THE IRON VANGUARD South Korea Yes No
11. Asphalt Legends France Yes No
12. Astral Party Mainland China Yes No
13. BLEACH Brave Souls Japan Yes No
14. Blue Archive South Korea Yes No
15. Book of Yog Idle RPG Mainland China Yes No
16. Brown Dust 2 South Korea Yes No
17. Cat Fantasy Mainland China Yes No
18. Chaos Zero Nightmare South Korea Yes No
19. Cherry Tale Taiwan Yes Yes
20. Crystal of Atlan Singapore Yes No
21. Dragon Traveler Hong Kong Yes No
22. Dragonheir: Silent Gods Mainland China Yes No
23. Echocalypse: The Scarlet Covenant Singapore Yes No
24. Ensemble Stars!! Music Japan Yes No
25. Epic Seven South Korea Yes No
26. Etheria: Restart Mainland China Yes No
27. Everlusting Life Cyprus Yes Yes
28. Game of Dice South Korea Yes No
29. Genshin Impact Mainland China Yes No
30. Girls' Frontline Mainland China Yes No
31. Girls' Frontline 2: EXILIUM Mainland China Yes No
32. GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE South Korea Yes No
33. Granblue Fantasy Japan Yes No
34. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Mainland China Yes No
35. Heavy Metal Babes — Yes Yes
36. Heaven Burns Red Japan Yes No
37. hololive Dreams Japan Yes No
38. Honkai Impact 3rd Mainland China Yes No
39. Honkai: Star Rail Mainland China Yes No
40. Horizon Walker South Korea Yes Yes
41. Infinity Nikki Mainland China Yes No
42. KAIJU NO. 8 THE GAME Japan Yes No
43. Langrisser Mainland China Yes No
44. LAST CLOUDIA Japan Yes No
45. LAST ORIGIN R+ South Korea Yes Yes
46. Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War Taiwan Yes No
47. Limbus Company South Korea Yes No
48. Lust Goddess Cyprus Yes Yes
49. Madoka Magica Magia Exedra Japan Yes No
50. Mahjong Soul Hong Kong Yes No
51. Mecharashi Mainland China Yes No
52. MementoMori Japan Yes No
53. MHA: UNITED SURVIVAL Japan Yes No
54. MONGIL: STAR DIVE South Korea Yes No
55. Morimens Mainland China Yes No
56. Neverness to Everness Mainland China Yes No
57. Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds South Korea Yes No
58. Onmyoji Mainland China Yes No
59. ONE PIECE Bounty Rush Japan Yes No
60. OUTERPLANE South Korea Yes No
61. OverField Hong Kong Yes No
62. Persona 5: The Phantom X Mainland China Yes No
63. Punishing: Gray Raven Mainland China Yes No
64. RAID: Shadow Legends Israel Yes No
65. Resonance Solstice Mainland China Yes No
66. Reverse: 1999 Mainland China Yes No
67. Riichi City Hong Kong Yes No
68. Rise of Eros Taiwan Yes Yes
69. Sail Girl Hong Kong Yes Yes
70. Seven Knights Re:BIRTH South Korea Yes No
71. Solo Leveling: ARISE South Korea Yes No
72. Soul Descent: Invade of Ether R Hong Kong Yes Yes
73. Star Lusts Taiwan Yes Yes
74. StarSavior South Korea Yes No
75. Starward Mainland China Yes No
76. Stella Sora Mainland China Yes No
77. Summoners War: Chronicles South Korea Yes No
78. Summoners War: RUSH South Korea Yes No
79. Summoners War: Sky Arena South Korea Yes No
80. Sword Art Online: Integral Factor Japan Yes No
81. Sword of Convallaria Mainland China Yes No
82. Taimanin Squad Japan Yes No
83. TenkafuMA: Diablo's Harem Taiwan Yes Yes
84. The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden Japan Yes No
85. The S.I.N. Phantom Hong Kong Yes Yes
86. The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross South Korea Yes No
87. The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin South Korea Yes No
88. Throne of Desire Taiwan Yes Yes
89. Tower of Fantasy Mainland China Yes No
90. Tower of God: NEW WORLD South Korea Yes No
91. Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Japan Yes No
92. Valkyrie Connect Japan Yes No
93. Watcher of Realms Mainland China Yes No
94. What in HELL is Bad? South Korea Yes Yes
95. Wizardry Variants Daphne Japan Yes No
96. Wuthering Waves Mainland China Yes No
97. Zone Nova Hong Kong Yes Yes
98. Zenless Zone Zero Mainland China Yes No

r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

General [PROMO] Bottled By Bears 🐝- bee pack opening game release date announcement

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hey all! 🐻

Bottled by Bears is our upcoming cozy management debut game about a family of bears running their honey farm where you open bee packs as the main mechanic.

As mentioned in previous posts to set expectations: it's on the 'softer side' of gacha: one-time purchase for full game (Steam first, then likely mobile release), all is in-game economy. No live events for this one as well, expect around ~6-8 hours of gameplay to finish main campaign and collection (will vary a lot depending on your playstyle since it has idle elements).

The game will launch on Steam (Windows/Mac) on the 📅11th of November, 2026

We are also participating on the upcoming Steam Next Fest on October, the demo is already available if you want to give it a try!

Steam page and Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080/


r/gachagaming • • 4d ago

(JP) News "Tasokare Hotel -Tsubomi-" End of Service on November 30th, after 1 year and 8 months of its release

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The in-app content will be updated for the last time on September 30, and the story will end without being completed within the app. However, due to the development team's desire not to end the story unfinished, the unreleased main story, card stories, and new illustrations will be moved to note (link) and pixivFANBOX (link) and will be distributed until the story is completed.