Strong story and lore
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The real shining star of the game though is the story.”
Steam review · 392.6 h played ↗
GIRLS' FRONTLINE 2: EXILIUM
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 70%Mostly Positive · 70%SUNBORN Information Co., Ltd.2025Turn-Based Strategy · Strategy · RPG
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A polished, story-rich anime XCOM-lite gacha with gorgeous models and a fairly generous pull system. Skip it if you want real tactics, hate gacha or skins, or dislike a huge install.
Great for
Story and waifu fans, GFL1 veterans, and casual F2P players who like light turn-based tactics
Main risk
Gameplay is shallow, autoplayable and plagued by power creep, so you may be bored or pushed to spend.
What changed in the last 30 days
36 recent reviews
Recent positive reviews praise the generous gacha, story and characters, and one says the game has come a long way with better character kits. Evidence is anecdotal, and recent negatives still cite support and billing bugs.
36 recent reviews
What players love
Beautiful characters and models
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The character models are higher quality than pretty much every AAA title.”
Steam review · 303.4 h played ↗
Fun XCOM-like tactical combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The xcom-like combat is very polished and works great.”
Steam review · 34 h played ↗
Generous, F2P-friendly gacha
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Probably the most generous gatcha I've seen. I've been able to get all but 1 of the characters on offer since I started playing, just by doing dailies and events.”
Steam review · 368.7 h played ↗
Fan service and jiggle physics
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“Come for the jiggle physics, stay for the... jiggle physics.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
Rich content and minigames
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Cooking mechanics with custom recipes, a literal cafe, water some plants, play in the pool, catch a scary movie, the list goes on and on and on....”
Steam review · 227 h played ↗
What players complain about
Predatory monetization and bad gacha rates
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The game itself is good, but is absolutely ruined when it comes to pulls as they have by far the worst pull mechanic of any gacha game.”
Steam review · 23.1 h played ↗
Too easy, autoplay, not real tactics
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“It's suppose to be strategy game similar to xcom but what you really get is waifu gacha simulator”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
Login, launch and stability problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“PC version worked for less than a week before refusing to load past the start screen.”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗
Huge install and hard-to-remove files
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“They trying to say it's less than a GB to install on steam but once you launch the game, It try's to make you download over 70 GB!”
Steam review · 4 h played ↗
Power creep and dupe-gated characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“every (meta) character mostly need full V6 to get work well in gunsmoke”
Steam review · 222.9 h played ↗
Overpriced skins and skin gacha
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“The Skin Gacha has got to be the most pathetic trash this game has had the balls to add.”
Steam review · 67 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown60 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX750 or Radeon HD 7790
Storage60 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX750 or Radeon HD 7790
Storage60 GB available space
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX750 or Radeon HD 7790
Storage60 GB available space
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