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NEXON Games · Cute · Jul 4, 2025

It depends on what you're after.

It's free to play.

64%
Mixed
28k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 133 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 15 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 28k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
43% of themes are praise43% are divided14% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
This game has an incredible story, incredible soundtrack, the cast of over 100+ cute and funny characters whom you WILL love, lovely aesthetic and artstyle.
133 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The story is good, the characters are sensibly minimalistic (for gacha standards) and well-designed, gameplay is serviceable and the game is reasonably generous to free-to-play players.
48 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
This game has an incredible story, incredible soundtrack, the cast of over 100+ cute and funny characters whom you WILL love, lovely aesthetic and artstyle.
15 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Story and characters133 reviews
Gameplay48 reviews
Audio15 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Monetization213 reviews
14%
Combat10 reviews
60%
Multiplayer8 reviews
63%
Players complain% still recommend
Difficulty8 reviews
25%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
64%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
0
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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