Anyone know more games like this?

[CaptainDaws]

As the tittle says, basically wondering if anyone knows any more games like this, these kind of "single player gachas", the only one I know that's kinda like this is Vivid Knight, was curious if you guys knew of any others.

[DustedOpossium]

i second this, i loved this game demo, wish it had more gacha for only one player. as far as i know, theres a game called Another Eden, it have gacha although you could get em for free upon gathering 1000 time crystals

[PlasticRhombus]

I don't but thanks for the Vivid Knight tip haha it's tiding me over until SBB releases!

[Xuande]

Vivid Knight is the go-to, and apparently it launched on mobile (at least Android) recently as well.

SBB (Storybook Brawl) was bought out by FTX, a crypto company, that wants to promote the usage of NFTs via buyouts. Avoid anything FTX or Luis Scott Vargas (LSV, most known for his Magic/MTG career) are involved in, as this inevitably happens. Besides, the balance patches have been getting much worse over time anyway, promoting an obvious flavor-of-the-month meta rather than the nuanced meta in the first 6 months post Steam launch. I was a former top player prior to the FTX buyout (#1 ladder elo in the first month, got bubbled out in their first ranked tourney on Twitch), so I'm not saying this lightly.

Peglin applies the gacha formula to a Peggle/Pachinko style format. The core game has good ideas, but its currently a bit lacking in content for now. If their roadmap goes well, it'll be worth looking into.

If you're willing to branch out past turn-based, there's always Vampire Survivors and its copycats, where you build an autobattling character and control only movement, plus a randomized level up path.

[William Shakesman]

Single player gachas... I mean this is the only one I can think of that is explicitly gacha themed. Monster Train is a roguelike deck construction card game in the same sense as this for gameplay but doesn't really have cute anime girls which is the core of any gacha experience, but if you want a game that has you fighting people with a deck of cards you keep adding to for an hour, Monster Train is one of the absolute best. Slay the Spire also works but there it's even LESS cute as the art style is all weird geometric shape people rather than Warcraft dudes. Both of those are more rigorous in gameplay balance, a lot more demanding. SBB lets you get away with just about anything as long as your deck has a few bare minimums but StS and MT demand a lot more focus on tuning a few good synergies.

[CaptainDaws]

I feel like there's a lot of mixup here with the type of games I'm talking about and just roguelikes.

What I'm mostly talking about here is basically anime themed games where the permanent unlock system is mostly gacha based (such as this or Vivid Knight). Basically a combination of the roguelike gameplay loops but with more permanent unlocks which are received via a gacha system whose currency is farmed during "runs", in turn increasing the pool of resources you have during your runs and so on.

I dont' really consider Monster Train or StS games like that even though they are basically exactly the same as this game gameplay wise (roguelike deckbuilders) they don't really have the "feel" of the game concept I'm looking for, in the case of those games because unlocks are experience based not really "gacha" based.

Same thing with earlier mentions of Pegglin and Vampire Slayers those are mostly roguelike arcade games I'd say (even though Vampire Slayers does have a permanent outside of runs progression system and the chests and leveling-up rewards are technically gacha-like).

To clear confusion what I'd like to know is if there are more games like this where progression is "gachafied" and this gacha system is a main selling point of the game but not necessarily deckbuilding games, autobattlers or even roguelikes (though this last one would be preferable). Points if it's anime as well.

[William Shakesman]

Yeah I was trying to think of anything that would be gacha-focused but there wasn't anything else I could think of so I gave a backup answer in case you were just being imprecise.

[snorlaxxo]

Actually, Overrogue from this Summer Fest has gacha-like unlock system too.

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I'd recommend checking out Moekuri. It's a grid based tactics game loosely similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea, with teams built from 150+ cute anime girls based on various mythological creatures. It's a linear visual novel with lots of individual missions, not a roguelike, and you unlock additional mostly random characters for your team as you progress through the story or by stopping to grind for them. There's also the option to replay the game as any of several different player character classes, which mixes up the gameplay a bit and gives you an excuse to reroll a new team from scratch. And as the reviews (and the number of reviews with 100+ hours of play time) will tell you, there's a lot more depth to it than you might guess from the screenshots.

[CaptainDaws]

Absolutly love XB2 I'd say it's one of the games that did the system I'm looking for the best, even though I don't really like the combat the gacha was super fun