Sure, gacha games have been long-affiliated with varying levels of freemium greediness on mobile, but recent years have seen ...

That trend has come to a head in 2025’s underwhelming Best Mobile field, which offers the most narrow view of the category to date. Every single game is a free-to-play release, a chunk of which are ...

Aleksandra began her adventure with games with… adventure games. As a child, she played the same titles over and over again, which were available on CDs included with magazines sold at newsstands.

The scale and ambition of this investment is really easy to underestimate. Recently, a developer working on one of this year’s breakout survival hits, Once Human, said to me that its team and studio ...

Gacha games are typically thought of as open-world, character-centric RPGs, usually with a stylized aesthetic and heavy cosmetic focus. The genre is much broader than that, though, with a hugely ...