Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
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Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
A charming anime gacha with a standout story, music and characters, but shallow auto-battler gameplay and a hated new gacha system. Skip if you want deep combat or dislike fan-service.
Great for
Visual-novel and story fans who like cute characters, great music and casual daily play
Main risk
The new 50/50 gacha system and shallow auto-battle gameplay may leave you feeling squeezed or bored
68 recent reviews
Recent positive reviews are mostly praise for story, characters and music, with fewer gacha-outrage reviews than the older negative wave. Recent negatives still cite the new gacha and connection errors.
68 recent reviews
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“Volume 3 (More precisely Volume 3, Chaper 3.), is where the game shows its true colors, where it finally shows how amazing the story writing is, and how emotional the game can be at some moments”
Steam review · 133.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Blue Archive does what most other gacha games can never do, make me care about it's characters.”
Steam review · 40.5 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The music are also quite good. The infamous Unwelcome School OST is quite famous even out of the BluAka fandom”
Steam review · 45.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“A Gacha that really respects your time, has very many ways to get banner currency and the devs are incredibly generous!”
Steam review · 35 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“I genuinely recommend this game because it feels relaxing, welcoming, and easy to come back to.”
Steam review · 56.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“as for the PC port, it runs incredibly smooth and simply works.”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 negative reviews
“I love this game, but the devs decided the best gift for the 5.5 anniversary fest would be changing the gacha from good to total garbage.”
Steam review · translated · 1043.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Patrick Söderlund from EA now is the executive chairman at Nexon and Nexon *already* is introducing predatory EA-like gacha systems to the game.”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Impeccable presentation festooned with throngs of cute and funny anime girls belie an incredibly bland auto-battler.”
Steam review · 300.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“These characters are underage and extremely sexualised”
Steam review · 3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“After last update, every time you start the game you receive "network connection is unstable" error; then you receive "ongoing session detected" error during 2nd attempt”
Steam review · 159.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“Fairly fun until you get to endgame, then its getting a bit of practice and off to waste time restarting for crits you go...”
Steam review · 373 h played ↗
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